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Runway Avatar

Runway · Video · Text → Video

Generate speaking avatar videos from preset characters with natural lip-sync.

Model ID: runway-avatar-videoWorkflow: runway/avatar/video
Audio Input
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Authentication

Send your Picsart API key as a bearer token on every request.

Header
Authorization: Bearer <PICSART_API_KEY>

Make a request

One endpoint serves every model: POST to /workflows/v1/models/execute with the model id and its input in the body. The nesting is deliberate — the outer paramsis the envelope every workflow takes, and the inner one is this model's own input. Those inner names are the same unified ones the SDK takes, so a call translates one-to-one between the two — no per-vendor naming to learn.

cURL
curl -X POST 'https://api.picsart.com/workflows/v1/models/execute' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer $PICSART_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "params": {
    "model": "runway-avatar-video",
    "params": {
      "prompt": "A serene mountain lake at golden hour, ultra detailed"
    }
  }
}'

Async (submit & poll)

This model can run longer than the sync limit (~20s), so send it to /workflows/v1/models/submit, which returns a task id, and poll /workflows/v1/models/{taskId}/result until response.status is COMPLETED or FAILED.

cURL
# 1. Submit the job
curl -X POST 'https://api.picsart.com/workflows/v1/models/submit' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer $PICSART_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "params": {
    "model": "runway-avatar-video",
    "params": {
      "prompt": "A serene mountain lake at golden hour, ultra detailed"
    }
  }
}'
# → { "status": "success", "response": { "id": "task_abc123" } }

# 2. Poll until response.status is COMPLETED
curl 'https://api.picsart.com/workflows/v1/models/task_abc123/result' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer $PICSART_API_KEY'
Result body
{
  "status": "success",
  "response": {
    "id": "task_abc123",
    "status": "COMPLETED",
    "result": {
      "url": "https://cdn.picsart.com/…/result",
      "items": [
        {
          "url": "https://cdn.picsart.com/…/result"
        }
      ],
      "model": "runway-avatar-video"
    },
    "usage": {
      "credits": 1
    }
  }
}

Parameters

4 parameters, sent inside the inner paramsobject. Identical to the SDK's — one parameter set, whichever transport you use.

ParameterTypeRequiredDefaultDetails
styleenumnogame-charactergame-character, music-superstar, game-character-man, cat-character, influencer, tennis-coach, human-resource, fashion-designer, cooking-teacher
voiceId
Voice
catalognovictoriaoptions from runway/v1/catalog/voices
prompt
Prompt
textnomax 1500 chars · e.g. "Write the script your avatar will speak..."
audioUrl
Audio Track
file (audio)no

Response

The body arrives in the gateway's status envelope, so the output is at response.result — alongside the task id, its status and the credits charged. Asset models return url plus an items array; text models return text instead.

Response body
{
  "status": "success",
  "response": {
    "id": "task_abc123",
    "status": "COMPLETED",
    "result": {
      "url": "https://cdn.picsart.com/…/result",
      "items": [
        {
          "url": "https://cdn.picsart.com/…/result"
        }
      ],
      "model": "runway-avatar-video"
    },
    "usage": {
      "credits": 1
    }
  }
}