# Create Avatar & Render

1. [Authenticate](/guides/create-avatar.md#1-authenticate)
2. [Create Avatar](/guides/create-avatar.md#2-create-avatar)
3. [Resolve Rendering](/guides/create-avatar.md#3-resolve-renderings)

### 1. Authenticate

Select the appropriate oauth2 authentication flow for your use case and obtain an API access token. See [Authentication](/api/authentication.md) for details.

For sake of simplicity of this example, you can use your [application's client credentials](/guides/api-credentials.md) to authenticate directly using the [oauth2 resource owner flow](/api/authentication/resource-owner-flow.md). Returns an access token on success. 

If you use other authentication flows, make sure to enable [scopes](/api/schema/scope.md) `read:avatars write:avatars read:renderings write:renderings`.

```bash
curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://auth.loomai.com/oauth/token' \
  --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
  --data grant_type=http://auth0.com/oauth/grant-type/password-realm \
  --data realm=Username-Password-Authentication \
  --data username={PASSWORD} \
  --data password={USERNAME} \
  --data audience=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.loomai.com%2F \
  --data client_id={CLIENT_ID} \
  --data client_secret={CLIENT_SECRET}
```

### 2. Create Avatar

Post a photo of a face to create an avatar. Returns response header `X-Loom-Status` containing the id of created avatar if successful. See [Avatars > Create](/api/avatars/create.md) for details. 

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.loomai.com/v0.5/avatars" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
  -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
  -F "image=@{IMAGE_FILE};type=image/jpeg"
```

### 3. Resolve Rendering

A rendered preview of created avatar is automatically created and can be resolved using the avatar ID. See [Avatars > Attachments > List](/api/avatars/attachments/list.md) for details.

```bash
{
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": 5754466256551936,
      "type": "renderings_preview",
      "name": "neutral",
      "url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/live-com-loomai-api-attachments/5484235973984256/MThVY01uV2tfbWlhLWF2YXRhcg==.png",
      "updated_at": "2020-04-05T16:37:57Z"
    }
    ...
  ]
}
```

This returns a list of attachments - including uploaded photo, rendered preview (type `renderings_preview`) etc.


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