Hire Nestor Find the face
Start from a reference. Nano Banana 2 builds an identity-preserving master portrait and expression stills.
IMAGE EDITINGTHE OPEN-SOURCE AVATAR PLAYGROUND
Create cute avatars.
Bring them to life.
Try twelve animated expressions, mix colors and accessories, and explore the fal.ai pipeline behind Nestor. No API key needed to play.
LIVE PREVIEW No API key needed
A curious little pause.
12 moods · 15 motion clips
THE CHARACTER LAB
What’s the mood?
One familiar face, with a different expression for each moment.
Make it yours 01 / 02
A little extra CHOOSE ANY
THE RECIPE
Three ingredients.
One consistent character.
The generated work happens once. The player recombines it locally, so a new color or accessory doesn’t need a new set of videos.
Give it motion
H3 Max Turbo animates each still into a short loop, guided by a matching start and end frame.
IMAGE → VIDEOMake it personal
A tiny offline player recolors fur, tracks the face, and layers accessories over decoded frames.
CANVAS + VIDEOYOUR TURN
Make your own
Make your own
little someone.
The character lab above is free to explore. To generate a new character from your own reference, run the playground locally and bring your fal.ai key.
The live demo makes no generation requests and never asks for an API key.
Three commands. Your own character lab.
Requires Node.js 20 or newer. No dependencies to install.
git clone https://github.com/obaid/live-avatars.git
cd live-avatars
npm startOpen http://127.0.0.1:4175, add your reference image and fal key, then generate a portrait, expression, or animation. Each generation uses your fal account and can incur charges.
Take the whole recipe.
The repository includes the queue proxy, editable prompts, generated sample assets, the color and accessory renderer, and a technical write-up on the tradeoffs.