How We Make AI Characters: ElevenLabs, Midjourney, Hedra (Full Walkthrough)
Learn our AI character workflow for your content. We cover AI voices, character generation, and lip syncing.
Try ElevenLabs → https://elevenlabs.io/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=evergreen_tutorials&utm_content=how_we_make_ai_characters_ai_voices_character_generation_lipsyncing_walkthrough
Try MidJourney → https://www.midjourney.com/
Try Hedra → https://www.hedra.com/
Overview
In this video, we build a stylized cowboy scene end to end using three tools: ElevenLabs Voice Design (V3) for voice generation, Midjourney V7 for cinematic visuals, and Hydra for fast, accurate lip-sync animation.
We start with a simple prompt: “deep, tough, gravelly, legendary cowboy, southern accent,” plus an emotion tag like angry. Voice Design outputs a natural, expressive performance. We also show how to auto-generate preview text, experiment with mic types for texture, and quickly export once the voice feels right.
Next, we use Midjourney to match the voice with the right look: rugged, dirty, evil cowboy in a red desert, Arri Alexa, 8K, film grain. A short prompt delivers a cinematic image. Next, we combine both assets in Hedra. One click later, we have a fully animated character—ready in under 10 minutes.
There’s no single right workflow here. This is fast, practical, and adaptable. Iterate quickly. Push it further.
Create AI Voices → https://elevenlabs.io/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=evergreen_tutorials&utm_content=how_we_make_ai_characters_ai_voices_character_generation_lipsyncing_walkthrough
Links & Resources
• ElevenLabs Studio – https://elevenlabs.io/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=evergreen_tutorials&utm_content=how_we_make_ai_characters_ai_voices_character_generation_lipsyncing_walkthrough
• Docs & API – https://elevenlabs.io/docs/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=evergreen_tutorials&utm_content=how_we_make_ai_characters_ai_voices_character_generation_lipsyncing_walkthrough
• Blog – https
Watch on YouTube ↗
(saves to browser)
Sign in to unlock AI tutor explanation · ⚡30
Playlist
Uploads from ElevenLabs · ElevenLabs · 0 of 60
← Previous
Next →
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
AI Multilingual TTS Demo | ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs
Professional Voice Cloning Demo | ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs
Introducing: Projects
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Dubbing Studio
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Speech to Speech
ElevenLabs
Sound Effects are Coming Soon to ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs
It Started to Sing
ElevenLabs
It Started to Sing (Jazz)
ElevenLabs
Broke my Heart
ElevenLabs
My Love
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Dubbing API
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Audio Native
ElevenLabs
Increasing reader engagement with Audio Native [June 2024 Webinar]
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Text to Sound Effects API Demo
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Voiceover Studio
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Speech to Speech Tutorial
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Voice Isolator API Demo
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Reader App - Android
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Impact Program
ElevenLabs
We’ve reduced our pricing.
ElevenLabs
Sound Effects Explore
ElevenLabs
Behind the Voice - Michael Marshall
ElevenLabs
X to Voice
ElevenLabs
Huberman Labs now Dubbing with ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs
GenFM, Now Playing on ElevenReader: Smart Podcasts Produced by Generative AI
ElevenLabs
Introducing ElevenLabs Conversational Agents
ElevenLabs
Meet Flash
ElevenLabs
Transforming media production with AI sound effects & dubbing
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Conversational AI Webinar
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs - Text to Speech, Dubbing, Sound Effects and more
ElevenLabs
Talk to Santa
ElevenLabs
Year in Review with special guest TIME's CTO Burhan Hamid
ElevenLabs
Conversational AI Voice Agents that can issue refunds
ElevenLabs
Prenez une longueur d'avance avec ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs
Studio is now available to everyone, with new features (walkthrough)
ElevenLabs
Build Conversational AI agents with Gemini 2.0 Flash
ElevenLabs
Meet Alexis & El – Support Agents Handling 4,000 Calls a Day
ElevenLabs
Transform your Speech with ElevenLabs Voice Changer
ElevenLabs
Personalize conversational AI phone calls with Twilio
ElevenLabs
Spotify is now accepting Audiobooks Narrated by ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs
Build Outbound AI Sales Agents
ElevenLabs
Meet Scribe
ElevenLabs
Build a multilingual speech transcription bot with the ElevenLabs transcriber API
ElevenLabs
Streaming and Caching Speech with Supabase
ElevenLabs
Meet GibberLink, Conversational AI's secret language
ElevenLabs
Building a Personal AI Receptionist
ElevenLabs
Cross-platform AI Voice Agents with Expo React Native
ElevenLabs
Automatic Language Detection for Conversational AI
ElevenLabs
Native Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in Conversational AI
ElevenLabs
Text to Bark from ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs
Meet KUBI the Conversational Robot Barista
ElevenLabs
Introducing the ElevenLabs MCP server
ElevenLabs
Collect and analyze data with Conversational AI
ElevenLabs
Agent Transfer - Conversational AI
ElevenLabs
Sound Effects are now available in Studio
ElevenLabs
How to Make your Professional Voice Clone.
ElevenLabs
Get unique AI Voiceovers in CapCut
ElevenLabs
Transfer to human - Conversational AI
ElevenLabs
Use HeyGen Avatar IV to Make AI Movie Characters
ElevenLabs
More on: AI Pair Programming
View skill →Related AI Lessons
⚡
⚡
⚡
⚡
Paystack’s first Dashboard rebuild in a decade brings AI into merchant operations
TechCabal
Paystack bets on an AI-powered dashboard to drive value for over 300,000 businesses
Techpoint Africa
Novix DeepSurvey for Smarter Research and Knowledge Discovery
Dev.to · novix .science
Top AI Tools for Programmers in 2026
Medium · Programming
🎓
Tutor Explanation
DeepCamp AI