The Evolution of AI Avatar Generators: From 2D Warping to Latent Diffusion
AI Avatars
AI Video Generation
Generative AI
How AI avatar generation moved from 2D mouth warping like Wav2Lip, through 3D morphable models and neural rendering, to audio-conditioned latent diffusion - with the trade-offs, the bottlenecks, and what to stress test before picking an engine.