Filter by type first — AI actors, human creators, or your own — because that decides your rights position and your cost before anything about the face matters. Then read the card: a looks count, a Human badge where it applies, and a speaker icon to audition the voice. Auditioning takes seconds and it's the check most people skip.
The temptation is to scroll until a face looks right. The picker gives you three pieces of information before you get there, and two of them cost more to discover later.
What's in the picker?
A search field, four type filters, and two tiles alongside the cards.
The filters are All, AI actors, Human creators and My actors. Those four are the tier decision, and it's worth making deliberately rather than by scrolling — a human creator and an AI actor sit in completely different rights positions and have different costs.
The two tiles are Create actor, which makes a new one without leaving the flow, and Faceless, which renders with no on-screen presenter at all.
There's also a search field, which is more useful than it looks once your own library grows.
Pick the filter before you pick the face. The filter is the decision that matters.
What do the cards tell you?
Three things, and each answers a question you'd otherwise answer by generating.
| Signal | What it means | Why check it first |
|---|---|---|
| Looks count | How many distinct looks that actor has, from two up to seven | More looks means more visual variety without recasting. It also affects cost on multi-look creators |
| Human badge | This is a real, licensed person rather than a generated persona | Decides your rights position, your cost, and whether the actor can later withdraw |
| Speaker icon | Audition the voice before generating anything | Voice affects perceived pace and register as much as the face does, and it's free to check |
Source: Hexcoded actor picker, checked September 2026. Interface details change — verify against the product.
Where this falls short. The card tells you what the actor is, not how well it holds up. A face that reads beautifully in a card photograph can still fail on a profile or mid-turn, and no badge warns you about that.
Why audition the voice?
Because it's the only signal you can't infer from looking, and it's free.
Every card with a voice carries a speaker icon. One tap and you hear the read before you spend anything.
Two reasons that matters more than it sounds. Voice sets perceived pace — the same script delivered slower reads as longer, which interacts directly with a sixty-second cap in Talking Actors. And register is doing as much work as appearance in anything where someone is speaking to camera. A face that looks right with a voice that doesn't is a recasting job you'd discover after generating.
What does the looks count actually affect?
Visual variety, and on human creators it also affects price.
A creator with five looks gives you five distinct appearances without recasting — different wardrobe, setting, framing. For a series that's genuinely useful, because a lead who appears identically in every episode reads as a template.
On the cost side, multi-look human creators sit at a higher shared rate than single-look ones. The useful detail is that all multi-look creators share that same rate, so a seven-look creator costs the same as a two-look one. If you're going to pay the multi-look rate, take the actor with the most looks.
All multi-look creators cost the same. So take the one with seven looks rather than two.
What does each tier cost to cast?
Simpler than most people expect.
Casting a real human creator adds a small flat fee. AI actors and any actor you made from your own photo are free to cast — you pay only for the generation itself.
So the cost question is binary rather than graded: either you've cast a real person or you haven't. And the flat shape means it matters proportionally less on a longer clip than a short one.
Worth knowing that real human creators also need a plan above the entry tier, so the filter may show you actors your plan can't cast.
What should you check before committing?
Four things, and the first two are free.
The tier, from the filter. The voice, from the speaker icon. Then two that cost a generation each but save more than they cost.
A profile test. The most common early failure and the one that ruins a conversation scene.
A mid-turn test. Unavoidable in any scene with movement, and the hardest thing for any model to hold.
Those two are the same checks you'd run on an actor you created yourself, and for the same reason — a face that only works front-on isn't cast, it's a headshot.
When should you not pick at all?
Two cases.
When the face has to be specific. If a character needs particular features, a particular marker, or has to match something existing, creating your own gets you closer than scrolling will. Picking is faster; creating is more precise.
When nobody needs to be on screen. The Faceless tile is right more often than people expect — for commerce video the product usually carries the piece better than a presenter does, and it avoids the actor fee entirely.
Set the type filter
AI actors, human creators, or your own. This decides rights and cost before anything about the face matters.
Audition the voice
Speaker icon, one tap, free. Voice sets perceived pace and register, and it's the signal you can't get from looking.
Take the most looks at the rate you're paying
All multi-look creators share one rate, so there's no reason to cast a two-look creator over a seven-look one.
Test profile and mid-turn before writing around the face
Two generations. It's the cheapest quality check available and it catches the failure that ruins conversation scenes.
Save it with a handle
Once cast, the actor is in your library with a handle you call in every prompt across every tool. That's what keeps the face consistent rather than re-describing it.
- Set the type filter first. AI actors, human creators and your own sit in different rights and cost positions
- Audition the voice. It's free, it's one tap, and it's the signal you can't read from a photograph
- Looks run from two to seven. More looks means more variety without recasting
- All multi-look human creators share one rate, so take the one with the most looks
- Casting a real human creator adds a small flat fee. AI actors and your own are free to cast
- Real human creators need a plan above the entry tier, so the filter may show actors you can't cast
- Test profile and mid-turn before any script depends on the face
- Faceless is a tile in the same picker, and it's right more often than people expect
Filter by type first — AI actors, human creators or your own — because that decides your rights position and your cost. Then read the card for the looks count and the Human badge, and audition the voice using the speaker icon before you generate anything.
How many distinct looks that actor has, from two up to seven. More looks gives you visual variety without recasting, which matters for a series. On human creators it also affects cost, though all multi-look creators share one rate.
Yes. Every card with a voice carries a speaker icon, and auditioning is free. Worth doing, because voice sets perceived pace and register — a face that looks right with a voice that doesn't is a recasting job you'd otherwise discover after generating.
Casting a real human creator adds a small flat fee. AI actors and any actor you made from your own photo are free to cast, so you pay only for the generation. Real human creators also need a plan above the entry tier.
Pick when the face doesn't have to be specific — background, ensemble, or anything where you just need a face. Create when the character needs particular features or has to match something existing. Picking is faster; creating is more precise.
Profile and mid-turn. Those break first, and they're unavoidable in any scene with conversation or movement. Two generations, and it catches the failure that would otherwise appear after the script is written around the face.
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