# Talking Head Ad — workflow skill for talking heads & avatars

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A presenter speaks to camera about the product: lip-synced portrait, two b-roll shots, captions, end card.

- **Type:** [Workflow](https://skills.varg.ai/workflows.md) · [Talking heads & avatars](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/talking-head.md)
- **Slug:** `varg-studio-talking-head`
- **Status:** draft
- **Publisher:** varg (varg, verified)
- **License:** proprietary
- **Source:** vargHQ (internal: studio-app/plugins/varg-studio/src/shared/formats.ts)
- **Works in:** varg Studio
- **Requires:** varg Studio desktop app (private), varg account
- **Cost:** Studio quotes every batch in credits on a price card and spends only after the user approves it.

## What it does

Being extracted from varg Studio, where this format is hard-coded today (`formats.ts`); there is no SKILL.md yet. Recipe: a presenter portrait (nano_banana_2), a lyria_3_5 music bed, an eleven_v3 presenter voice lip-synced with veed_fabric_1_0, and two 5 s b-roll shots of the product and the product in use (minimax_h3_max_turbo for drafts, kling_v3_standard for finals), then a render and a topaz_video finish. The voiceover uses lines like "So, [pain]. I tried [product]". Default hooks: Question, Confession, Bold claim.

## Use when

- A presenter talking to camera about the product

## Install

Not published as a standalone skill yet. Source: vargHQ (internal: studio-app/plugins/varg-studio/src/shared/formats.ts)

**Models it drives:** nano_banana_2, lyria_3_5, eleven_v3, veed_fabric_1_0, minimax_h3_max_turbo, kling_v3_standard, render, topaz_video

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/varg-studio-talking-head.mp4 — varg's 'Talking Head Promo' template (its TSX, talking-head-varg-promo.tsx, is also shown on varg.ai/platform): a Soul presenter portrait voiced with ElevenLabs v3 and lip-synced with VEED Fabric 1.0 (the same voice and lip-sync models as Studio's Talking Head recipe), a music bed, word-by-word captions and a logo overlay — 'Varg AI is just insane…'. First 8 s of 11 s. (credit: varg, https://varg.ai/ugc-ads)

## More talking heads & avatars skills

- [Character Keynote](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-character-keynote.md): One render call: a Soul character delivers a keynote-style ad line on a generated stage, voiced by Seedance 2.5.
- [Podcast Dialogue Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-podcast-video.md): Two-character podcast or debate clips: one studio set, locked camera angles, MiniMax H3 Max with native audio.
- [Talking Head Production](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-talking-head-production.md): Produce talking-head videos with AI avatars, lip-sync and voiceover, from portrait specs to final cut.
- [AI Avatar Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-ai-avatar-video.md): Create talking-head avatar videos from a portrait and a script, with a lip-synced voice.
- [P-Video Avatar](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-p-video-avatar.md): Turn one portrait into a speaking avatar video with Pruna P-Video-Avatar, its built-in TTS or your audio.
- [AI Podcast Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-ai-podcast.md): Generate a multi-person talking-head podcast video from scratch: characters, voices, avatars, stitching.