TikTok: How to Create an Avatar

Users can also choose from predesigned characters

Mark your calendar for Mediaweek, October 29-30 in New York City. We’ll unpack the biggest shifts shaping the future of media—from tv to retail media to tech—and how marketers can prep to stay ahead. Register with early-bird rates before sale ends!

TikTok introduced customizable avatars that people can use to cover over their faces when recording videos in the video creation application. When a TikTok avatar is activated, it will animate to match the user’s real-world movements.

TikTok offers a selection of predesigned avatars for users to quickly select, or they can create their own avatar and customize its appearance with different hairstyles, eye colors, accessories and more.

Our guide will show you how use the “TikTok Avatars” effect and create an avatar in the TikTok app.

Note: These screenshots were captured in the TikTok app on iOS.

AW+

WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.

Subscribe today!

To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber

View Subscription Options

Already a member? Sign in