Published on: 2025-04-27 07:15:13
The second season of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender will reintroduce audiences to Toph Beifong, a 12-year-old blind Earthbender who becomes Aang’s teacher. Like with characters from the last season, the live-action version of Toph (played by Miya Cech) will come with some changes and tweaks. During the red carpet for the sci-fi film Marshmallow, Cech talked about her approach to her upcoming role. Speaking with The Direct, she reiterated her Toph would be slightly older than her animated
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 07:36:55
What happens when AI doesn’t just generate content, but embodies it? AI has already mastered the ability to produce realistic photos, videos, and voices, passing the visual and auditory Turing Test. The next big leap is in AI avatars: combining a face with a voice to create a talking character. Can’t you just generate an image of a face, animate it, and add a voiceover? Not quite. The challenge isn’t just nailing the lip sync — it’s making facial expressions and body language move in tandem. It
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 11:00:04
It's 2025, so it should be no surprise that another organization has sold its soul (entered into a licensing deal with an AI company) for an undisclosed sum. A new partnership allows UK-based Synthesia to access Shutterstock's content library for training its latest AI model, EXPRESS-2. This deal isn't the first of its kind for Shutterstock, which previously teamed up with OpenAI to sell stock images made using AI generator DALL-E 2. Synthesia creates avatars for corporate videos about topics s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 07:30:00
Genies has been investing heavily for this moment. The culture-focused avatar technology company is revealing its user-generated content tools that let anyone create custom AI avatars. Genies raised $150 million in 2022, and it has been busy ever since building out the tech stack for what it calls Parties, or gaming platforms driven by AI avatars, user-generated content, and personalized gameplay. In an exclusive interview, Genies CEO Akash Nigam gave GamesBeat a look under the hood at Genies’
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 23:15:56
It’s a good time to be a fan of the Avatar franchise, between Nickelodeon’s all-new upcoming animated series Avatar: Seven Havens and Netflix’s (unrelated but adjacent) live-action series returning for a second and third season. The third part of the current Avatar media triangle is Nick’s upcoming trilogy of animated feature films, with the exciting news today that Steven Yeun (Invincible, Mickey 17) is joining its voice cast. Before you connect too many dots—because as fans well know, Yeun pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 02:00:00
A few years ago, several startups with a specific focus on digital avatars appeared because of all the metaverse buzz. While that buzz died down, generative AI has given a new life to avatars as it is easier to spin up different virtual identities. Companies are trying out different use cases for avatars, including D-ID and Synthesia in the enterprise space, Zoom for meetings, Glance for fashion, Praktika for learning, and TikTok and Captions in the creator space. However, Isaac Bratzel, who cr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 20:00:00
Akool, a startup doing AI-driven avatar content creation, announced enhancements to Akool Streaming Avatars that connect avatars with AI models. Akool has added advanced video generation technology that now seamlessly integrates with large language models (LLMs) to help model builders create dynamic, 2D lifelike avatars. With the ability to upload a photo and provide a voice recording, customers can create a personalized avatar that becomes a natural extension of the LLM, making interactions w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 19:52:53
Netflix dropped a blooper reel this weekend from the first season of its live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender show, giving fans a look at some cute behind the scenes antics while they wait for the next season. The first season was released a year ago, and Netflix announced shortly after that the show had been renewed for two more. There’s no release date yet for the new episodes, but the streaming service said on Saturday that production for the second season is underway. The third season will
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 18:30:29
Just a few days ago, we got a peek at Magic: The Gathering’s crossover set with the Final Fantasy series. But the card game’s already announced its next collaboration beyond Square Enix’s RPG megafranchise—it’ll also be releasing cards based on Avatar: The Last Airbender later this year. During this weekend’s MagicCon Chicago event, Wizards of the Coast teased the upcoming set, which will feature “new adventures, iconic art, and an elemental showdown like never before.” Avatar is no stranger to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 21:05:36
This week marks the 20th anniversary of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Nickelodeon’s action-fantasy anime that became one of the network’s biggest shows back in the day. And what better way to celebrate a momentous occasion than to finally reveal a new show—Seven Havens, a 2D series with a two-season greenlight and involvement from franchise co-creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. Like the previous shows, Havens will center on another young Avatar coming into their own, in this case a yo
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Avatar: The Last Airbender is getting another sequel from original creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. In honor of the series' 20th anniversary, Nickelodeon announced the franchise's next series, Avatar: Seven Havens, one of the first releases from Avatar Studios. The new show will center on a young Earthbender who becomes the next Avatar following Korra. I've been a fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender since I was a kid, and I loved watching Aang and his friends go on adventures and l
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The Avatar franchise’s titular hero is defined by more than just their ability to wield the abilities of all four elements; beyond their martial and spiritual prowess is a transcendental link to previous inheritors of the mantle stretching across thousands of years of history. But as we prepare for the news of a new Avatar show—and with it, the next incarnation of the Avatar—we’ve learned that they’re going to be facing a very different world and reputation, as well as a ramification that has ch
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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on an AI-powered avatar generator for Play Games profiles. We’ve enabled it before the official rollout to give you an early look. Google is developing an AI-powered avatar generator for the Play Store that will allow you to create a custom avatar for your Play Games profile. We first spotted evidence of this upcoming feature earlier this week, and we’ve now managed to get an early look at how it may work upon release. Authority Ins
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 05:00:23
Yesterday, Nickelodeon and Avatar Studios finally unveiled some concrete details about Avatar: Seven Havens, the new animated spin-off of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. While the news came with comforting details like a lengthy episode count and the involvement of series co-creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, the plot details of the new show have Korra fans bracing for more slander of their favorite hero. Accompanying Seven Havens‘ announcement was some flavor t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 01:29:56
It’s been ten long years since Avatar: The Legend of Korra aired its final episode and over 15 years since Avatar: The Last Airbender bowed out. Now, finally, Nickelodeon has greenlit a sequel series and it sounds pretty awesome. Deadline reports that Avatar: Seven Havens will be a 2D animated 26-episode followup that chronicles the rise of the next Avatar after Korra. Franchise creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are developing the series, so we know it's in good hands. The plot sou
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is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Rumours about the next mainline Avatar series have been circulating ever since Nickelodeon announced that Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko were returning to lead Avatar Studios. But now, we finally know a bit more about where the franchise is heading after The Legend of Korra. Today, Nickelodeon announced that the Avatar saga (w
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