An AI twin, or AI clone of yourself, is your face and look holding steady from frame to frame in photos and video, plus your voice. You build it from a character sheet made of your own photos and attach that sheet as a reference to every generation: no custom model is trained on your face, so likeness depends on the source photos.
Need a talking avatar from one photo and a voice recording? That is a separate guide, How to make an AI avatar video from a photo and your voice.




Character sheet based on images 1–3: the same person in four views — frontal portrait, left profile, right profile, full body. Clean white background, soft even light, photorealistic, neutral expression. Keep the facial features, nose shape, eye color, hairline, moles and freckles as in the source photos. Do not beautify the face, do not change the age, no accessories or text.
No glasses or hat; if a mole or scar matters, add a close-up.
Compare it with yourself and redo it if the nose, eyes or hairline drift.
Make each new frame from the sheet, not from the previous result.
In the prompt, name the roles (image 1 is the hero's face and clothes, image 2 is the street) and the number of people in frame.
In the prompt, write speaks with the voice from audio 1 and the line itself in quotes.


Image 1 is the character sheet: the hero's face, hair and build. The same person sits by a café window holding a cup and looks out at the street. Medium shot, 50 mm lens, soft daylight from the window on the right. One person in frame. Keep the face from image 1, do not beautify, no plastic skin.
Image 1 is the hero's character sheet, image 2 is an evening street. One person in frame. 0–3 s: medium shot, the hero walks down the street from image 2 toward the camera. 3–6 s: close-up, he stops and smiles. The camera slowly pulls back. Low sun from the left. Keep the face and clothes from image 1, do not beautify. No music.
Image 1 is the hero's character sheet, audio 1 is his voice. Medium shot, the hero sits at his desk and says to the camera in the voice from audio 1: 'Hi, this is my digital twin, and the voice is really mine.' Locked camera, window light from the left. Keep the face from image 1. No music.
A character sheet is one image with several views of the same person. Models do not remember earlier runs, so the sheet goes into every generation and the face is repeated from it.
| What to shoot | Why |
|---|---|
| Frontal portrait, neutral face | The main source of facial features |
| Profile | Without it the model invents the side view |
| Full body | Build, height and how clothes fit |
| Close-up of a distinctive mark | A mole, scar or freckles that must appear in frame |
Shoot in even light without harsh shadows. For yourself at another age or in another look, make a separate sheet.
Photos and video come from different models, but one character sheet works for both.
| Task | Model | Input photos |
|---|---|---|
| Photo series | GPT Image 2.6 | Up to 16 |
| Photo series | Nano Banana Pro | Up to 8 |
| Clip up to 30 seconds | Seedance 2.5 | Up to 30 |
| Clip up to 30 seconds | Wan 3.0 | Up to 10 |
| Clip up to 15 seconds | Seedance 2.0, MiniMax H3 | Up to 9 |
Several shots can go into one prompt with timecodes: this works in Seedance 2.0 and 2.5, Wan 3.0 and MiniMax H3.
Attach the same sheet to every generation and name it in the text: image 1 is the hero's face. An unnamed reference may be ignored.
Make every variant from the sheet or the original photo. If you build on an already edited result, the drift grows with each step.
Keep the face large: medium shot or close-up. Describe the scene light — where it hits the face — or a studio-lit sheet looks pasted in. Add do not beautify the face so the model does not smooth the skin.
The voice comes from an audio reference. Seedance 2.0 and 2.5 and MiniMax H3 accept a recording only together with a photo or video; Wan 3.0 also accepts it alone. A 2–15 second clip fits all of these models.
Name the recording in the prompt and give the line time: a short phrase needs about three seconds. The spoken language is set by the text of the line. Gemini Omni, Kling 4.0 and Veo 3.1 do not accept audio uploads.
Use your own face and voice, or someone else's only with that person's permission.
A small face in a wide shot, a profile face without a side view on the sheet, and small accessories on the sheet are the hardest for the model. Remove extra items from the sheet if they should not appear in frame.
If the views on the sheet blend your features or expressions distort the face, go back to one neutral portrait and give clothes and location as separate photos. There will be no exact copy: check the beginning, middle and end of the clip and redo the failed piece.
Shoot a frontal portrait, a profile and a full-body photo, build a character sheet from them in GPT Image 2.6 or Nano Banana Pro and attach it to every photo and video generation. For the voice, add your recording as an audio reference.
Record a short clip of your speech and add it as an audio reference together with the character sheet in Seedance 2.5, Wan 3.0 or MiniMax H3. In the prompt, say the hero speaks with the voice from audio 1 and give the line in quotes.
No exact copy: models are not trained on your photos, they follow your appearance from references. A character sheet made from sharp, evenly lit photos gets closest to you.
Usually the character sheet was not attached to every generation or not named in the prompt. Models do not remember earlier runs: the look holds only on references.
An AI avatar is a talking portrait from one photo and a voice recording. An AI twin is your look and voice in any scene, in photos and video.