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Feedback & Requests

i have been experimenting with Avatar IV and trying to find out how useful it is to produce video content for a project I am working on. When I started out (a few days ago) it was the first version and it worked surprisingly well to animate a character that I designed and rendered in 3D. 

It only happened in a few occasions that some hands were appearing in the animation, which was not intended and looked awkward because my character is a golden android with a very particular outfit. What happened was that the hands did not match with my character, and even if they would, I don't want random hands to show up in the animation. 

Now there was the release of 4.1 and the issue with the hands got significantly worse, even though the animation quality is much better when it comes to the hands. It is just totally random how the AI creates these hands, and also they look different in every video, which does not make sense at all when I think of publishing animated videos of this character. 

I don't want random hands in my animations. 

Another issue with Avatar 4.1 is that the movements and expressions are really exaggerated now, in my eyes, and what felt aligned with my needs and visually accurate before, has now turned into some overly expressive and unnecessarily creative animations. 

I have tried to counterbalance that with prompts but it didn't really work and I burned through a lot of credits very quickly, which also made me question the use of Avatar 4 all together, as it gets expensive quickly, if I run some tests and use longer scripts, which is totally normal for an actual video production. 

I tried prompts like “no hands” or “subtle movements” and such things but with no luck. 

Since there is no negative prompting, I currently feel clueless as to what I can do about this. 

I would so like to keep working with the 4.0 version because it worked to so much better for my purposes. 

Is there any possibility to still use the first version of Avatar 4?

Can anybody share some prompts with me that have worked to reduce exaggerated movement and expressions? I also would like to avoid hands and to much arm movement all together, as it just does not fit the visual setup of my character and it leads to random results that just don't feel reasonable. 

Prompting in Avatar IV

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