18:01Dan Kieft · Tutorial
My AI Avatar Clone is So Realistic It Replaced Me
An 18-minute walkthrough of building a photorealistic AI video clone from a selfie, an audio clip, and a structured timeline prompt.
May 19thThe argument in one line.
Managing multiple AI influencer personas across platforms is a prompt-juggling nightmare that a single locally-hosted dashboard eliminates by storing each character identity, outfit history, and brand deal assets in one persistent profile.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- You already run one or more AI influencer pages and spend most of your time re-entering the same character prompts on different platforms.
- You want to produce UGC-style product ads without hiring real models or managing influencer relationships.
- You are comfortable downloading a GitHub repo and running npm install, and want a free self-hosted alternative to per-generation SaaS costs.
- You want a consistent look across a roster of several AI personas without manually maintaining prompt libraries.
SKIP IF…
- You have never used an AI image generator before and are not ready to configure a local Node app.
- You need a polished, supported commercial product — this is openly unfinished and distributed as-is.
The full version, fast.
Running five AI influencer pages at scale means constantly switching between Higgsfield, GPT Image 2, and Nano Banana and re-prompting each character from scratch every session. The dashboard presented here solves that by storing each influencer as a persistent profile — physical traits, backstory, personality, saved wardrobe variants, and brand deal product sheets — and routing all generation through a single local UI. Setup takes four steps (Antigravity IDE, Claude Code extension, GitHub download, npm install) and the optional Claude API connection improves prompt quality without much spend. The full flow from reference image to character sheet to outfit to scripted UGC video takes under ten minutes once configured.
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00:00 – 00:43
01 · Hook and social proof
Five AI influencer pages doing millions of monthly impressions; the multi-platform prompt workflow is the bottleneck; introducing the dashboard.
00:43 – 01:55
02 · Dashboard demo overview
Nine pre-built influencers shown; character sheet generation, outfit swaps, product placement, and video output demonstrated.
01:55 – 02:13
03 · Example UGC output reel
Side-by-side phone mockups: hiking/hydration UGC and Keychron keyboard UGC played simultaneously.
02:13 – 03:39
04 · Installation walkthrough
Four steps: download Antigravity IDE, install Claude Code extension, download GitHub ZIP, run npm install. Launch on localhost.
03:39 – 04:11
05 · Initial setup: Higgsfield and Claude API
Connect Higgsfield API via OAuth; add optional Claude API key for smarter prompt generation.
04:11 – 06:43
06 · Creating Ellie: identity and appearance
Name, gender, age, niche (finance), reference photo, backstory, personality slider, physical traits, aesthetic vibe (cottagecore).
06:43 – 09:01
07 · Generation: choose engine, pick look, build sheets
Select GPT Image 2; generate 3 looks; pick canonical look; generate character sheet, close-ups, feature sheet; fill profile metadata.
09:01 – 10:20
08 · Wardrobe, home rooms, brand deals
Generate and name outfit variants; upload room for world-building; add brand products and generate multi-angle product sheets.
10:20 – 11:40
09 · Photos tab: full composition control
Combine location, time of day, pose, expression, outfit, and props in any combination.
11:40 – 13:17
10 · Video tab: scripted UGC generation
Script input, product add, shot type, voice/accent settings, resolution. Luna lamp ad and Marcus Keychron ad demonstrated.
13:17 – 13:57
11 · Olivia: travel influencer examples
Mountain lifestyle images plus Hydro Flask hiking vlog UGC video.
13:57 – 15:14
12 · Philosophy and CTA
Vibe-coded in two weeks with no prior coding; free because unfinished; assets in Skool (NextGen AI); Higgsfield MCP as next frontier.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- A reference image plus an explicit written physical description outperforms either alone — the AI uses the photo as a visual anchor and the text to resolve ambiguities like hair length or build.
- Backstory shapes clothing and setting prompts automatically: a finance-niche persona gets different default environments than a yoga instructor, without you specifying it each time.
- Saving named wardrobe variants lets you return to a specific style on any future generation without re-describing it — the outfit becomes part of the character, not a one-time prompt.
- The character sheet plus close-ups plus feature sheet trifecta is the consistency foundation; every downstream image and video references these three assets to stay on-model.
- Brand deal sheets work by generating multi-angle product images (front, back, side, hands) separately from the influencer, then composing them — trying to generate both in one prompt is why most attempts look off.
- A scripted UGC video needs exactly four inputs: the script, the product image, the shot type, and the voice accent — all four are in the same tab in the same session.
- Vibe-coding a custom tool from zero coding experience is now a realistic two-week project when the scope is solving exactly one specific workflow problem.
- Giving each AI influencer a community identity and pointing the CTA to a free Skool group is a low-friction way to build a list around a free tool without a paywall.
- The switch from per-prompt SaaS to locally-hosted API orchestration cuts recurring costs to near zero — you pay only for the API calls you actually make.
- Integrating an MCP connector (Higgsfield MCP) turns a dashboard from a manual tool into a workflow that other AI agents can drive automatically.
One dashboard that remembers who your influencer is.
WHAT TO LEARN
Visual consistency across AI influencer content breaks down the moment you switch platforms or sessions — the fix is storing the full identity as a persistent profile, not re-prompting from scratch each time.
- A reference image combined with an explicit written physical description outperforms either input alone — the image provides a visual anchor while the text resolves ambiguities like build, hair length, and skin tone.
- Backstory shapes clothing and setting outputs automatically: a finance-niche persona gets different default environments than a yoga instructor without you specifying it each time.
- Saving named wardrobe variants means you can return to a specific style on any future generation without re-describing it — the outfit becomes part of the character, not a one-time prompt.
- The character sheet, close-ups, and feature sheet trifecta is the consistency foundation; every downstream image and video references these three assets to stay on-model across sessions.
- Brand deal content works best when you generate multi-angle product sheets separately from the influencer and compose them — trying to place both in a single prompt is why most AI product shots look off.
- A scripted UGC video requires four specific inputs: the script, the product image, the shot type, and the voice/accent setting — having all four in the same session with the character already loaded is what makes it work.
- Building a custom tool from scratch with no prior coding experience is now a realistic two-week project when the scope is solving exactly one specific workflow problem rather than building a general platform.
Terms worth knowing.
- Character sheet
- A reference image showing a generated persona from front, side, back, and three-quarter angles in a neutral outfit, used as the visual anchor for all future image and video generations.
- Feature sheet
- A close-up grid of a generated persona's face showing isolated details (eyes, nose, lips, skin texture) to give generation models precise facial reference data.
- Higgsfield
- An AI image and video generation platform with its own API, used here as the primary engine for both still images and short UGC-style talking-head clips.
- Vibe coding
- Building software by describing desired behavior to an AI coding assistant in plain language, without writing code directly — the developer directs and reviews, the AI implements.
- UGC ad
- User-generated content style advertisement — a short, casual-looking video where a person demonstrates or endorses a product, designed to feel organic rather than produced.
- Antigravity IDE
- A local code editor that supports AI-assisted development and parallel agent workflows, used here as the environment to run and customise the influencer dashboard.
- Aesthetic vibe
- A style category (cottagecore, streetwear, old money, clean girl, etc.) applied to an influencer profile that the dashboard uses to bias generated outfits, settings, and compositions toward a consistent look.
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- A standard that lets AI models connect to external tools and services as callable functions, enabling other AI agents to trigger actions in a platform like Higgsfield directly.
Things they pointed at.
14:57productNextGen AI Skool community
Lines you could clip.
00:00
“I figured out the easiest way to create AI influencers, and this might be the future of how you start using AI.”
02:13
“I'm giving you this entire tool for completely free because I customized it and vibe coded myself, and I see no point in selling something like this if it's not a finished product.”
14:10
“I had one problem and I vibe coded my own solution. I don't have any coding experience. I just got started with this, like, a few weeks ago.”
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00:00I figured out the easiest way to create AI influencers, and this might be the future of how you start using AI. You see, I own about five AI influencer pages, and some of them are doing millions in impressions every single month.
00:14The problem is creating all of those images and videos from scratch is taking a lot of time. You're constantly switching between different platforms like nano banana, GPT image two, and CDense. And for each generation, you have to type in a new prompt, you have to adjust it, and hope for the best.
00:29That's why I vibe coded this AI influencer dashboard that does all of the hard work for you. It is completely free to download and to run locally on your own computer.
00:43Now here's what it does. It allows you to easily generate your AI influencer that is completely customizable with the press of a few buttons. For example, I've made these nine influencers that each have their own unique style and are in their own separate niche.
00:57Take Camilla, for example. She is a yoga instructor. And with the press of a button, I can generate her character sheet.
01:03I can make a close-up of her unique features that will all be used throughout the rest of her generations. Then I can make her wear any outfit that I want just by changing in a few features right here, and I can add in props like a watch or any type of product that I want her to promote. And then I click generate and boom, I got a video like this.
01:23I have to admit, I got into the hype. You guys probably already know, but this is the AP and Swatch collab, and I got this strap that perfectly fits the watch.
01:35And guys,
01:36I get the hype now. You can also make custom images of your influencer by clicking the photos button. Here, you can change the location, the poses, the outfits, and expressions to make any type of image variation of your influencer that you want.
01:51It essentially becomes the all in one place for your influencers. This works for any type of influencer. Here are a few more examples.
02:00So you guys already know how much I adore hiking. We're hiking in Greece in this beautiful weather, and hydration is my utmost priority.
02:09If you guys didn't know, Keychron makes the best keyboards.
02:13This is the Keychron q one RGB in sturdy aluminum build. Now I'm giving you this entire tool for completely free because I customized it and vibe coded myself, and I see no point in selling something like this if it's not a finished product, but also if it might not be to your needs. So if you install this, then you can completely customize it and even vibe coat it yourself in tools like cloth coat or like anti gravity.
02:37Let me actually show you how you can install this. So to install this tool, you're gonna need four things. First, you're gonna need anti gravity, and I'm using anti gravity IDE.
02:48So after you've downloaded that version, the next step of what you need to do is you need to go over to the extensions, and there you need to download Cloth Code. Now you make sure that you install Cloth Code, and then you have completed the second step.
03:01Now you wanna go over to my GitHub page, and I've created this AI influencer that you can download by clicking on codes and then download as a zip. After downloading that, you want to unzip your file so you are left with a folder like AI influencer main, and then you wanna go over to the explorer page, and here you wanna upload your folder.
03:20You select the folder that you've just downloaded. Make sure to type in n PN install, and now everything will be set up for you. Now you're basically ready to get started.
03:30You want to run this locally, so make sure to copy the local host that it gives you and then run it in your browser. Now you've successfully launched this AI influencer dashboard. What you wanna do now is you wanna click on get started.
03:42Here, you need to connect this to Higgs Field. We're using Higgs Field because it has their own API that we're using as the image and video generator for this entire project. So you wanna click on connect, then it will launch Higgs Field.
03:55And here, you wanna make sure that you log in, and then you click on allow. The next part, if you want to have better prompts, which I will strongly recommend, is to connect your Cloud API.
04:04So here, click on connect, then you add in your API code, which you can find in platform.cloud.com/settings, workspaces, and then default keys. Or when you're in the Cloud console, you go over to manage API keys, and then here you can create a new key.
04:19For this, you need to have some credits on there. Keep in mind, you don't need much because the whole tool is already, like, fine coded for you. You've now successfully set it up.
04:27So you're now ready to create your first AI influencer. For that, you're gonna click on the top right at create. Here, you can now give your influencer name.
04:36So let's go with Ellie. Then Ellie is a female. She is 26 years old, and she is in the finance industry.
04:43Then we're gonna hit continue, and now you can upload a reference image. Keep in mind, this is optional. If you don't have any reference images, you don't have to do this.
04:52But if you're looking for a specific look, this will help the AI to get the exact reference that you want. So in my case, I'm gonna go with this example. So I have this person that I want to mimic, and I have this outfit that I'd like.
05:04The AI asked me what to copy, so I'm gonna go with her hair and her facial shape. Then for the outfit, I literally want to copy her outfit. So now we click on continue, and here we can give it a backstory.
05:17This is important because this part is what makes your character unique, and this is also what determines into the prompt of what they are like. So if they are like a doctor, then it might give you like a doctor code. If they are into fitness, then it might give them like fitness clothing.
05:32So you wanna make sure that your backstory is straight. So for my backstory, I'm going with Ellie as an ex accountant and is now a finance YouTuber with the goal of helping as many people as possible to get out of debt and build wealth. Then the personality, you can choose between a more introverted person, which is a person that is a bit more shy, or a more extroverted person, which is more outgoing.
05:54I'm going with bold and outgoing. Then we hit continue, and here you can fill in how they look. If you already have a reference image, then make sure you match with that reference image.
06:02If you don't have a reference image, then this is the part where you decide how this person looks. So we're going with white. She has a medium skin tone, and she has red hair.
06:11It is short hair and it is a bit wavy. Then for the eye color, I'm going with green, and for the build, I'm going with athletic. Then here, custom description.
06:19If you have anything, like, let's say someone is wearing glasses or they have tattoos or freckles, anything else, you can add that in here. Then for the aesthetic vibe, this one is important. You don't have to do this.
06:30It's optional, but it will match that vibe. So if you're going with streetwear, it will make your character wear streetwear.
06:37I'm gonna go with cottagecore here. It's romantic, vintage, and it has a bit of nature.
06:41Then we click on generate. Now we have four different options to generate your image. Because you've added in a reference image, you cannot generate it with Hicksfield's Soul because it doesn't work that way.
06:51But Higgs field soul is still a very good image generator. It is also super fast. So if you don't have an image reference, I would try out Higgs field soul.
06:59I'm gonna go with GPT image two because that gives me the best results here. Now we're gonna click on generate three looks. And now it will start generating.
07:07You can go over to Higgs field. So I have Higgs field open right here. I can go over to image now, create image.
07:13And then if the setup is done correctly, I can see it generating here in the background. So there we go. These images are now being generated by Higgs Field, and you can go into the dashboard live, which I would also recommend you because then you can see exactly what is going on.
07:27For this to work, I would recommend getting a plus account because then you have enough credits to generate images and videos, and you should be able to connect your Higgs field to this tool. Okay. So now it has generated three different options that you can choose from.
07:41It is very important that you pick the one that you'd like the most because all of the rest of your images are based on this. If you don't like this, please just start over. Or you can click on regenerate and it will give you three different options.
07:55So, for example, let's say I like this one the most. She's wearing the outfit and it has the facial features. So I'm gonna create Ellie's profile.
08:03Now we have her main image and we can now click generate sheets and we can do it in 16 by nine. We can generate close ups and we can generate the feature sheet. All of these are now generating in the background.
08:14So if I were to refresh Higgs field right here, we should be able to see that it is generating. It is. Now while that is generating, you can start filling in the details on your profile.
08:24So you can fill in the target audience, you can fill in a description, the hobbies, the aesthetic, the content pillars, and even the brand colors and dream brands. This will help you keep a clear overview of what this influencer is like because, like you see, I have a lot of them and I might forget what Ellie's like compared to someone like Derek.
08:43And now after this is done generating, you will have a complete character sheet, close ups, and even a feature sheet of your character, which we can then use for any type of image and video creation. Now you have the foundation of your influencer. So we have the character sheet, the close-up, and also the features.
09:01And if you go over to Higgs Field, you can actually see the exact prompts that I use. So if you wanna go over my prompts, you can see them right here and also in here. All of the prompts have been used in the back end through this tool.
09:14And that will save you a lot of time because these prompts are quite complicated. If we then go down, we can change up her wardrobe. So let's say you don't like what she's wearing right now.
09:22You can easily just generate a new look just by typing in what her outfit should be like. So for example, we can do a brown blazer with a white undershirt, and then we can do long beige pants. We can keep the hairstyle the same, not by typing in anything out, and then we can generate a look.
09:37And now it will literally generate a new character sheet for you. Now it adds in this custom style, and if you like it, you can give it a name. So let's say we go with formal and then we click save to wardrobe.
09:49So now we have a new outfit to our character. I would recommend generating a few of them just to create a complete profile of your influencer. You can also go into home.
09:59Here, you can upload your own, like, room, and that gives the influencer, like, a room to be in. You can do, like, world building with this. You can also go to brand deals.
10:07Here, you can add in a brand or you can import from previous brands. So for example, here I got this Prime bottle and you can click on generate. And here, you can also generate a sheet.
10:16So for example, with the Prime bottle, it has generated a character sheet. If I go over to one of my other influencers, so let's go to Camilla. For Camilla, I've generated this Swatch watch.
10:26And then if we go to sheets, we can see this is actually with the help of Claude. Like, Claude is writing a custom prompt for this where it comes up with different angles and what the, like, watch looks like from the backhands, from the side of it, all of that. So that's super useful.
10:41Now, if we then go over to photos, here you can change up the location so you can choose any type of location. If you wanna do something custom, you can type in your location right here. Then you can change the photo to the light of day that you want.
10:53So let's say night, golden hour, afternoon, morning. You can also choose the pose. So let's say you want her to be handheld, candid, or, like, even a hair touch, a hip hop, over the shoulder, facing away.
11:06Like, this is super useful for if you have one of those AI influencer accounts, which is a bit more lifestyle. Besides that, you can change her expression, so you can make her neutral, smiling, mid loth, or serious. You can choose between the outfits that you have previously generated, and then you can also create different props.
11:24So here, for example, I can add in the swatch and I can make her wear the swatch. So if I then click on generate photo, then you can get any type of photos like these ones, which all create, like, custom different looks in different settings, different outfits, all of that.
11:41If we then go over to videos to make it even more advanced, you can here type in what your character should say. To give you a good example, I had this character right here, which is called Luna. I made her a new wardrobe.
11:53So I made her this outfit. And with that outfit, I wanted her to become a interior designer. So I went to video.
12:02I gave her the script. If you want some cozy lights in your house, you will have to check out this lamp. Look how cute it is.
12:07Then I added in this lamp, and then I gave it one shot. I gave her an accent in the voice. So I gave her California girl, 28 year old, Caucasian.
12:16And then the AI does everything for you. So you can generate it. You can choose the settings.
12:20You can choose between real or long form. You can choose the resolution. Keep in mind, ten eighty p takes a bit longer to generate, so I went with seven twenty p.
12:27And then she makes something like this. If you want some cozy lights in your house, you'll have to check out this lamp. Look how cute it is.
12:36So that's great. Right? Like, all of this is generated using CDENSE in the back end.
12:40So if you go over to your videos, you can actually see it being generated over here. To give you some more examples, I also got another dude that is called Marcus.
12:49Marcus is a bit of a romanticus. I have him as, like, a bit of a gamer guy. So he's a pro gamer.
12:54So if I go to the photos that I made, so I have him, like, a bit of an awkward dude. He's always with the thumbs up. And this is Marcus.
13:01Now if I go over to videos and I make a UGC video of him, I can make something like this. If you guys didn't know, Keychron makes the best keyboards.
13:09This is the Keychron q one RGB in sturdy aluminum build. I got this keyboard in my favorite brown keys, and this is how it sounds.
13:19Way better than your typical Razer keyboards. The best thing about this tool is is that you can store everything inside of it. So you can have complete dashboards of every creator that is completely customizable, that allows you to build their own story, their own narrative, and you can build on top of that.
13:35So you can change these outfits. For example, Olivia is a travel floor. I made a few images of her in the mountains, and all of those can be easily posted to Instagram.
13:44Now for the videos, I made her a vlog. So here, she is promoting this bottle. So you guys already know how much I adore hiking.
13:52We're hiking in Greece in this beautiful weather, and hydration is my utmost priority.
13:58This is my Hydro Flask, and it's been a lifesaver in long hot hikes like these. So these are now very focused on UGC type ads, but literally the possibilities are endless here. My whole goal with this is that you can vibe code this and you can customize it.
14:13So let's say you don't like something, you can literally go into anti gravity and you can say, like, hey, I want to add in this new feature or, hey, I want to change this on. You gotta be careful with it though because it might break, and that's also why I'm not charging anything for it. Like, I vibe coded this in, like, two weeks, and it was a ton of fun.
14:29And I think this is the future of AI. And especially now that you can connect, like, Hicksfield MCP to this, it is even more powerful. Where I think this will be going is that we will start using and integrating all of the different tools and combine them into our own custom tools.
14:44Like, that's literally what I did right here. I had one problem and I Vipecoded my own solution. I don't have any coding experience.
14:51I just got started with this, like, a few weeks ago. If you wanna try this out yourself, then make sure that you download these assets from my school community. I will also provide a bit more of a guide on how to install it.
15:01And if you wanna see more videos like this, let me know in the comments down below. If you wanna learn more about AI influencers, then click the video that's on the screen right now because there I will go more in-depth of all the different things that you can do with AI influencers.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Five AI influencer pages. Millions of monthly impressions. And a workflow so fragmented — Nano Banana for one thing, GPT Image 2 for another, Higgsfield for video — that the creator vibe-coded his way out of it in two weeks. The result is a free, locally-run dashboard that keeps every persona on-model from first character sheet to final UGC ad.
Named ideas worth stealing.
08:20list
Character Sheet + Close-Ups + Feature Sheet
- Character sheet (4 angles, neutral outfit)
- Close-ups (face portrait)
- Feature sheet (eyes, nose, lips, skin texture grid)
The three-asset foundation that locks visual identity before any downstream generation. Everything else references these three files.
Steal forAny AI content workflow where consistency across sessions matters
05:00model
Reference Image + Physical Traits + Aesthetic Vibe
- Reference photo (optional)
- Explicit physical description (ethnicity, skin tone, hair, eyes, build)
- Aesthetic vibe category (cottagecore, streetwear, old money, etc.)
Three-layer identity scaffold. The reference image anchors looks; the physical traits resolve ambiguity; the aesthetic vibe shapes all outfit and setting prompts automatically.
Steal forAny AI persona system where you want outputs to stay consistent without re-prompting
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
14:57product
“Make sure that you download these assets from my school community. I will also provide a bit more of a guide on how to install it.”
Soft, no hard sell. Points to free Skool community (NextGen AI) shown on screen. Low friction.
MENTIONED ON CAMERA
FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
AFFILIATECommission earned if you click.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
Visual structure at a glance.
