Disclosed are systems and methods for template-based generation of personalized videos. An example method includes receiving a sequence of frame images, face area parameters corresponding to positions of a face area in a frame image of the sequence of frame images, and facial landmark parameters corresponding to the frame image of the sequence of frame images, receiving an image of a source face, modifying, based on the facial landmark parameters corresponding to the frame image, the image of the source face to obtain a further face image featuring the source face adopting a facial expression corresponding to the facial landmark parameters, and inserting the further face image into the frame image at a position determined by the face area parameters corresponding to the frame image, thereby generating an output frame of an output video.