Community Spotlights: Videos of the Month (July 2025)
# Community Spotlight
# Made with HeyGen
Inspiring videos from the talented HeyGen community
Happy July, HeyGen Community! We’re back with a brand-new roundup, and this month features some truly standout creations. From original songs and sci-fi storytelling to timely video updates on what’s happening in the world of artificial intelligence, our community has been pushing the creative boundaries of what’s possible with HeyGen avatars.
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Thank you to each of our featured July creators for sharing their videos and AI video tool tips with the community!
Summary: The video is the second single release of Anima Studio's AI Hip Hop Artist Bobby Soul. We created this video using Midjourney, Runway, Kling and HeyGen's Avatar IV for most of the scenes with lip syncing. We are aiming at launching a full album for Bobby Soul making him the world's first worldwide known AI artist. Anima Studios is an AI-first agency on a mission to transform storytelling.
Tools used: HeyGen's Avatar IV, Midjourney, Runway, Kling.
Summary: AI Drops is an experimental project where I use AI to create short, LinkedIn-ready video updates about what’s happening in the world of artificial intelligence. The challenge: Can I build a fully AI-assisted production pipeline that’s fast, scalable, and still human-guided? As part of the experiment, I chose to use a UGC, front-facing iPhone-style video format, the kind you typically see on social media. It’s simple and familiar, but also raises the bar for authenticity. Here’s how it works: I start by scanning the latest AI developments using Perplexity. I select up to four relevant topics and gather 2–4 trusted, high-quality sources for each. After cleaning the material, I use NotebookLM to generate clear, concise briefing documents, one per topic. I then feed those briefings into ChatGPT, trained specifically to turn those briefings into short-form scripts. It summarizes the key insights, adapts them into a natural, conversational tone, and structures the script for a 1–2 minute delivery tailored to LinkedIn. (Btw ‘I use Projects in ChatGPT over CustomGPT, but the reasons for that are maybe a conversation for another time). Next, I feed the script into HeyGen, using my cloned avatar to present the update. The process here can sometimes take quite a bit of time. Using voice director and gesture control has noticeably improved the quality, but it’s still not fully reliable. There's still a lot of fine-tuning involved to make the output feel as natural and believable as possible. Once the video is generated, I finalize everything in CapCut, using its AI tools for editing and automatic captioning. Last step: I return to the same ChatGPT project to generate a LinkedIn-optimized post to go with the video. The result is a complete, AI-powered content loop, from research to publishing, with human oversight at every key moment.
Summary: My name is Simone Bocchino, and throughout my career, I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with major studios and agencies such as Secret Level, BTDT Media, and Jouska Films, among many others. I’ve been fortunate to receive multiple awards both as an AI artist/director and as a music producer.
For this project, I combined both sides of my creative background, serving as both the composer and the visual creator of the music video. The result is a cohesive piece where sound and imagery are deeply intertwined, designed from the ground up as a single artistic vision. Technically, I used Heygen 4 for lip-syncing, while Hailuo and Higgsfield were my main tools for motion generation, allowing for a workflow that bridges AI filmmaking with traditional music video camera movements and techniques.
Summary: KIMAIY is a virtual singer and artist whose music video and song “Bring me back” went viral on LinkedIn, bringing me great contacts and inquiries. Since then, she has appeared regularly in my content. This video is the announcement for the creative partnership with HeyGen, which we are very excited about.
When I’m not working with KIMAIY, I’m a creative at KARTEL AI and work independently as an AI Creative Director and music producer.
The audience scenes in the video were created with Veo3.
KIMAIY’s lip sync was, of course, done with HeyGen, though still with the previous version of Avatar IV.
Summary: I used HeyGen, 11Labs, Grok, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Photoshop to make this. Specific to HeyGen, my process was upload my prepared avatar (subject against a green screen), then linked to my 11Labs account with an API key to get the Russian accented voice. I would then put about 30 seconds worth of script into the HeyGen editor, adding pauses as needed. (Minor note, I often got better inflection and timing on the voice by adjusting pause times slightly to force it to regenerate the TTS. This ended up costing more, but it tends to yield a more relaxed, laid back feel.) After getting all of the pieces processed. I bring them into Premiere Pro, key out the green screen, and stitch the clips into a full video. Adding all the other stuff too, of course. PLEASE NOTE! The uploaded video is NOT the full video. The form just required an upload. The full video is in the YouTube link provided.
