Topic · Image, Art and Design

Characters, Avatars and Portraits skills for Claude Code and Codex

Skills that design consistent characters and turn photos into avatars, stickers and animated pets. They keep the same face, outfit and style across many images or shots.

Highest-scoring character and avatar skills in the October 22, 2026 snapshot: stage-consistency from Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio (80/100) and gif-sticker-maker from MiniMax-AI/skills (75/100). Scores come from the Suede Skill Check.

3 from official publishers. 3 bundle scripts. 1 connect to an outside service. Listed in Video, Image, Audio and Creative (3), Frontend and Design (1), Testing and QA (1).

All 5 character and avatar skills

SkillRepositoryWhat it does
gif-sticker-maker 75/100 · CMiniMax-AI/skillsConverts photos of people, pets, objects, or logos into four animated GIF stickers with captions, including cartoon and Funko Pop styles.
stage-consistency 80/100 · BOrkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudioKeeps the same character consistent across many shots using a character bible, reference selection, frame carry-forward, and Cameo user photos.
character-design 75/100 · Cfal-ai-community/skillsBuild consistent character designs and character media with genmedia. Use this for original characters, reference sheets, expression sheets, outfit…
hatch-pet 65/100 · Dopenai/skillsCreate, repair, validate, visually QA, and package Codex-compatible animated pets and pet spritesheets from character art, generated images, company…
render-3d-character-explainer 73/100 · Cgooseworks-ai/goose-skillsAssemble an animated character-explainer video ad (any art style — Pixar-style 3D, claymation, anime, paper-cut, felt) (~77s, 9:16) built on an "N…

How to choose character and avatar skills

For a recurring character across a story or ad series, choose a skill that keeps a character bible or reference set, since consistency is the hard part.

Sticker and pet skills produce small animated files with fixed size rules, so check their output format against where you will post them.

Most of these call hosted image models through fal.ai or MiniMax, so plan for an API key and per-image cost.

Animation and Motion Graphics 23Fun Tools 53D Generation and Rendering 7Icons and Illustrations 8

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