In Midjourney, make sure you’re on the “Explore” tab at the top on the left side toolbar. Use the search bar in the top right corner to find example images that have the subject, style and features you want.

Example search: “Tiger in the style of Disney's animated film Frozen”

If you do not like any of the results, try a different search prompt.

As you scroll through the results from step one, you’ll eventually find an image that captures the vibe you are looking for.

Maybe its the artistic style, pose or character itself. Just know that this is only a starting point. In the next step, we will customize your avatar until its perfect!

When you find the one… click on it.

Next to your image, you’ll see a paragraph of text. That’s the actual AI prompt that created the image.

Underneath you’ll see 3 buttons - “Image”, “Style” and “Prompt”.

Click “Prompt”

This pastes the prompt for your image into the prompt bar above. Now you can modify the prompt adding the changes you’d like to see.

Example: I changed the prompt in this example to make the background green.

Now let’s decide what to do with the other 2 buttons...

Click “Style” if you want a completely new picture inspired by the artistic style of the one you selected.

Click “Image” if you want to add the Image itself to the prompt. This will create a new image very close to the one you already have, with only the changes you made to the prompt itself.

For this example, I added “Style” only.

To see your new images, select the “Create” tab, 2nd one down, on the left side toolbar.

Four new images are created based on the prompt you engineered in the previous step.

Find the one you like best and click it. If you still need to make changes apply the techniques from step 3 to the new image.

If it all went terribly wrong go back to the explore tap and try different changes to the prompt.

Spend as much as you need making changes and new renderings until you get the avatar just right.

Once its perfect, move on to Step 5.

We worked hard to get the Avatar just right, so let’s make sure its a high quality image.

In order to do that, simply click “Subtle” to the right of the word Upscale (careful with that “Creative” button, it may change your avatar significantly).

Once your upscaled avatar finishes rendering your screen may look basically the same as it did before.

You’ll know its the high quality version because it will say “Upscale” above the prompt (lower quality images will say “Imagen” there).

Simply click the Download button and save your new Avatar!

In order to make your Avatar talk, we’ll use the tools at Hedra.com.

From the Hedra home page, click “Video” located center, left on the top toolbar.

First we need to upload our Avatar by selecting “Image Frame” and then “Upload Image”.

Select your avatar from its file storage location.

Once it uploads it will appear as a thumbnail in the “Image Frame” box.

You have some choices when it comes to audio but they all start by clicking “Audio Script”.

“Generate Speech” allows you to type your message and have an AI generated voice create the audio

“Record Audio” allows you to do a voice recording of whatever message you want to send (preferred)

“Upload Audio” allows you to upload an existing audio file

For this example I used the Generate Speech option. I typed my message in the text-box; chose an AI voice (Gigi); and Generated Audio.

Finally, I clicked the “Add to video” button to finish.

Note: If you are recording your audio, the steps are very similar. You’ll just be recoding your voice instead of typing and will probably not want an AI voiceover.

Finally, add one last prompt in the test box. I usually keep this pretty short:

Example: “Character should be excited and using arm gestures as she speaks”

Then press the pink render button in the top right of the text box.

Now your message has been created and hopefully you love it!

All that’s left to do is download it and send it to its intended recipient. It will download as an MP4 so almost any delivery method will work.