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Your Own Animated Avatar: the Full Guide

A step-by-step guide to designing your own small animated character in Avatar Lab, an open-source browser studio, and putting it on a web page or using it as a picture, with the finished example page to run yourself.

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Enter your email. You get a 6-digit code, then the download starts.

Node.js 22.12+ and npm; for the studio also Git and pnpm 10.34. No account, no API key. The studio and its packages are AGPL-3.0: the guide explains what that means before you put the animated character on a public site.

What you get

  • Studio Install Avatar Lab on your computer and run it in the browser.
  • Character Shape, colour and eyes of your own character, step by step.
  • Animations Happy, laughing, thinking, listening, celebrate and more, plus your own.
  • Export As React or plain JavaScript, or as a PNG/SVG picture via Photo Mode.
  • Example page A small site assistant that listens, thinks and answers, tested with npm run build.

In three steps

  1. Unzip and open the guide PDF. Or start the example right away: npm install and npm run dev in example-site.
  2. Follow the six steps to design your character and put it on your own page.
  3. Or paste INSTALL-WITH-CLAUDE.md into Claude Code and build it together step by step.

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