Animate Your Avatar – Roblox Support

How can I animate my avatar with my movement?

Animating your avatar with your movement is an entirely new way to express yourself and communicate with others on Roblox. The feature uses your device camera to mirror your movements and facial expressions onto your avatar in real time.

Developers have the choice to integrate this feature in their experiences, and therefore it may not be supported when playing certain experiences.

How do I enable avatar animation with my movement?

When you join a camera enabled experience, users will receive a device / OS prompt to grant Roblox access to your device camera. Select “Allow” or else you will be unable to access the camera with your device.

If you previously blocked access to your device camera, go to your device’s application settings for Roblox to allow camera use.

Optional:
For a more immersive communication experience, eligible 13+ users can enable their microphone to use voice chat. Voice chat is a feature that allows people to communicate on Roblox as naturally as they communicate in the physical world. Once enabled, they will be able to use voice chat with avatar animation in any Roblox experience that supports both camera and microphone for communication. For more information, see here.

Why is Roblox asking for my consent to use my device camera?

Roblox temporarily uses your device camera solely to animate your avatar. Roblox does not record or store any of the information that is captured from your device camera to animate your avatar. For more information, please review Roblox’s Facial Animation Privacy Notice.

Is enabling the device camera a privacy risk for younger users on the platform?

We take our users' privacy seriously regardless of age. When they use their camera to animate their avatar with their movement, any information provided by their camera for the feature to function is deleted in real-time after it has been used and cannot be shared. Video from their camera never leaves their device. This feature is entirely opt-in and more information is available here.

Why is my camera not supported on my device?

We’ve disabled camera to improve the overall experience performance on devices that can’t support it. This feature is not available on Android devices with less than or equal to 3GB RAM, such as Galaxy Tab A7/A8, Xiaomi Redmi 9A, Fire HD 8/10, etc.

In order to use your device camera to animate your avatar, you will need to switch to another device with greater than 3GB RAM.

How do I know which experiences support animate your avatar with your movement?

To find out if an experience has camera enabled, please review the experience details page that contains the “About” section. If you have enabled your device camera to animate your avatar with your movement, within the “About” section, the “Communication” field will indicate if the “Camera” is enabled.

If only the “Microphone” is shown, that experience will only support chat with voice.
If only the “Camera” is shown, that experience will only support animate your avatar with your movement.
If both the “Microphone and Camera” are shown, that experience will support both chat with voice and animating your avatar with your movement.

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Are there experience controls to animate my avatar with my movement?

When you join a camera enabled experience, user will receive a device / OS prompt to grant Roblox access to your device camera. Select “Allow” or else you will be unable to access the camera with your device. (If you previously blocked access to your device camera, go to your device’s application settings for Roblox to allow camera use.)

When you join an experience, your camera and/or microphone will default to off and you can turn them on and back off independently. If you turn on just the microphone input, your avatar’s mouth will lip sync based on your voice input. Lip syncing creates facial animation in real time by inferring the shapes your mouth makes for specific sounds during speech. When you enable your camera, your full facial expressions and head movements are matched by your avatar using information from your camera.

If you join a microphone and camera enabled experience and you have also enabled microphone and camera inputs, you will have both microphone and camera icons appear above your avatar’s head.

Selecting a camera to use

Roblox will automatically use the system default the first time you join an experience with camera enabled. If you have multiple cameras attached to your device and would like to use an alternate one, you can do so in the experience settings menu. Press the Roblox tilt logo icon in the top left corner, select the “Settings” tab, scroll down to “Video Camera,” and select which camera you want to use.

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Self View

When you enable your camera, you can access a new Self View window showing your avatar. To access Self View, select the hamburger menu in the top left corner, select “Self View”. Self View helps make it easy and fun for you to see how your avatar’s facial animation reacts to your input in real time. Self View includes a camera icon within the Self View window if camera is enabled within the experience. Self View is not required for you to use your camera and it can be repositioned, resized, or closed at any time.

How do I know if I have the right avatar head to animate my avatar?

To animate your avatar using your movement, your equipped avatar head needs to support facial animation. It is important to note that not all avatar heads will support facial animation immediately.

How do I know if my avatar’s head supports animating my avatar with my movement?

Please refer to this FAQ for detailed information, by device, on how to customize your avatar. Once you have navigated to the Avatar page, for either “Customize” or “Marketplace,” select “Heads and Body.” Under the “Style” section you will see heads that support facial animation.

For both “Customize” and “Marketplace,” look for the icon on the thumbnail, a winking face, that lets you know the head supports facial animation.

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