Upload guide: what photo works best

For the best result, use a close-up, front-facing photo of you alone, with your face large in the frame and your eyes looking straight at the camera.

• Pose and framing: Use a head-and-shoulders or upper-body close-up, like a close selfie. Your face should fill the upper part of the frame. Do not use a standing full-body photo or a distant photo — this template is shot as a first-person close-up, so a distant body gives the model almost no face to work with.
• One person only: Upload only yourself, with no second person and no group photo in the frame.
• Eyes: Keep your eyes open and looking at the camera, with no sunglasses and no hair falling over your eyes. The whole scene is built around eye contact with the camera.
• Mouth: Keep your mouth area clear, with no mask, hand, or phone covering your lips. The action is centred on your mouth, so the model needs a clear mouth shape to animate.
• Outfit: Wear the outfit you want to see in the result. This template carries over the outfit from your own photo, so choose it deliberately — including a top you like, and also including a jacket or covered shoulders, which will carry over too.
• Light and sharpness: Choose a recent photo in bright, even light, in high resolution, with your face in sharp focus. Skip screenshots with black bars or app buttons, photos of another screen, and heavy filters that reshape your face.
• Avoid: standing full-body shots, back views, side-profile-only photos, faces small in the frame, dark or blurry photos, and group selfies.