Character Keynote — workflow skill for talking heads & avatars
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One render call: a Soul character delivers a keynote-style ad line on a generated stage, voiced by Seedance 2.5.
- Type: Workflow · Talking heads & avatars
- Slug:
varg-character-keynote - Status: beta
- Publisher: varg (varg, verified)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/vargHQ/skills/tree/main/varg-character-keynote
- Works in: Claude.ai, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw
- Requires: varg MCP connection (render_video, get_job)
- Cost: ~400 credits / run (estimate) — Converted from the skill's own per-run figure.
- Runtime: 5–15 min
What it does
A single render_video call makes an 8 s, 9:16 talking-speaker ad: Soul generates the character, nano_banana_2 the empty stage, and Seedance 2.5 animates both with native speech and applause. To make a new one the agent edits only three things in a fixed TSX template (the spoken LINE, the character prompt and the stage prompt), which keeps results consistent from run to run. It never launches a render without the user's explicit go-ahead.
Use when
- A speaker or keynote-style UGC video with a custom character
- Swapping the character in the varg keynote template
Not for
- Multi-scene stories: one render is one continuous 8 s action
- Videos that need on-screen text: the prompt keeps "no text on screen"
Install
- Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg - Codex:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-character-keynote -a codex -y - Cursor:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-character-keynote -a cursor -y - Gemini CLI:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-character-keynote -a gemini-cli -y - OpenClaw:
npx clawhub@latest install varg-character-keynote
Models it drives: soul, nano_banana_2, seedance_2_5
Used for
- UGC video ad: A creator-style ad: a person talks to camera about your product, with b-roll, captions and an end card.
- Talking avatar or presenter: A person (from a headshot, or generated) speaks your script to camera with lip-sync, in any language.
More talking heads & avatars skills
- Podcast Dialogue Video: Two-character podcast or debate clips: one studio set, locked camera angles, MiniMax H3 Max with native audio.
- Talking Head Production: Produce talking-head videos with AI avatars, lip-sync and voiceover, from portrait specs to final cut.
- AI Avatar Video: Create talking-head avatar videos from a portrait and a script, with a lip-synced voice.
- P-Video Avatar: Turn one portrait into a speaking avatar video with Pruna P-Video-Avatar, its built-in TTS or your audio.
- AI Podcast Video: Generate a multi-person talking-head podcast video from scratch: characters, voices, avatars, stitching.
- Lanshu AI Presenter Video: Publish-ready explainers led by an AI presenter from an authorized photo, or in one of twelve presenter-free styles.