Drawn films that explain one thing at a time
Short drawn films, how-to demonstrations and talking website assistants, made from your words. Presented by Axel AI Assisted or by a character drawn for you. A person with disability checks every film, and each one carries the Verified by aXai record.
Watch: Axel at his desk – The box provided
A short drawn film. Axel meets a form whose box is smaller than his name, and shows what aXimation makes: films like this one, and a website assistant that shows people how things are done.
Read the transcript
Good afternoon. I am Axel Andersen.
I live with a severe intellectual disability. I use AI to communicate.
When you have a disability, you meet a great many forms. They all want to get to know you.
Please describe your disability in the box provided. The box provided is smaller than my name.
Then a second form asks how I found the first form. I wrote: in the box provided.
So I have found other work.
I make videos like this one.
I can be the assistant on your website, and show people how things are done. Brushing teeth, for example. I have checked. I have teeth.
I explain things once, clearly, in a box of any size. aXai.
On screen: Axel lives with a severe intellectual disability and uses AI to communicate. The presenter in this video is his AI avatar. axai.com.au. Axel Andersen AI Assisted.
About a minute long. Captions, a transcript and an Easy Read version come with every film.
Talk to Axel
Ask him a question out loud or in writing, or ask him to show you how to brush your teeth. This is the same assistant we set up on your website, in your words, with your character.
When you talk to Axel, what you type is sent to Anthropic in the United States, which writes his reply. His reply is sent to Google, which makes his voice and may process it outside Australia; a reply can repeat something you told him. Cloudflare's Turnstile check runs when you press Start, to tell a person from a bot, and receives your IP address. We keep no copy of the conversation. If you use Speak, your browser turns your speech into text and its maker may process that audio outside Australia. Please leave out personal and health details. Our privacy policy says how to see, correct or complain about your information.
Axel rests when the day’s conversations are used up, and is back the next morning.
What we make
Short films
Up to 90 seconds, or up to 3 minutes, from your script or a short brief. Square, portrait or landscape.
Series
Five or more films on one theme, in one setting, with the same character. For a campaign, an induction set or a course.
Your own character
Drawn to your description, or as one of your team with their consent. Yours to use in every film and assistant after that.
How-to demonstrations
Your own tasks, one step at a time, from sources you trust. As a film, and as steps people go through at their own pace.
A talking assistant for your website
A drawn character that answers from your own pages, out loud, and runs your demonstrations. Comes with bot protection and a daily spending limit you set. Prefer video? See the Avatar assistant.
Changes and new versions
Change one line and only that line is remade. Everything you approved stays exactly as it is.
The one who was already there
Catsby
Catsby is a real cat: a tailless seal-point ragdoll, drawn as he sits. He is in the films because he was already in the room.
He never speaks. When he has a view, it goes on a title card, and Axel reads it out, flat. He has views about forms, queues and anything else built by people who never had to sit in it.
You can call him. He is a cat, so he comes when he decides to.
Simple, fixed prices
Prices in Australian dollars. Each price includes paid hours of work by a person with disability, shown on the card.
Short film, up to 90 seconds
$139includes 0.5 paid hoursFilm, up to 3 minutes
$189includes 0.75 paid hoursFive short films
$549includes 2 paid hoursFive films, up to 3 minutes
$849includes 3.25 paid hoursHow-to demonstration, up to 10 steps
$249includes 1 paid hourYour own character, or a new setting
$149each, once; included with any five-film order
includes 0.5 paid hoursTalking website assistant
$595 to set up, then $119 a monthincludes 2 paid hours, then 0.5 a monthA changed line after approval
$35One round of changes is included before you approve. A series of ten or more is one fixed quote before work starts. Axel AI Assisted as presenter is priced on request. Compare aXai Videos for photographic presenters.
How ordering works
Order, approve each part as it is ready, and pay for what changes.
Ordering moves into aXstudio when it opens. Until then, send us your idea through the contact page and we set it up for you.
Questions
How long is a film?
About a minute. Short enough to watch to the end, long enough for one idea.
Who works on my film?
A person with disability reviews every film and assistant, paid for the hours shown on the price card, and checks it against your script before you see it. Read what the Verified mark means.
Can I use my own character?
Yes. We draw it from your description or your photos, and it can speak in its own voice, even a copy of a real voice from a recording. A real person gives their own consent first, in whatever way they communicate, and can change their mind later. You see the drawing as a still and approve it before anything moves. After that it is in your library for every film.
Can I change one line later?
Yes, for $35 a line. Only that line is remade; the rest of the film stays exactly as you approved it.
What does the website assistant know?
The pages you give it, and nothing else. You approve what it says before it goes live, and you set its daily limit.
Is it accessible?
Captions on every film, a transcript, an Easy Read version, and players and pages built to WCAG 2.2 AA. Read our accessibility statement.
Who owns the film?
You do, once it is paid for, along with any drawing of a real person we make for you. Axel, our own characters and the way we make films stay ours, and you can use them in your film. Showing your film as an example of our work is your choice, ticked separately when you order.
What happens to my photos and recordings?
We delete them 90 days after we deliver your film. Invoices are kept for 7 years, as the law requires.
Can Axel present my film?
Yes. Axel AI Assisted reads every script before saying yes.
Tell us what needs explaining. A sentence is enough to start.
Contact usOr email annette@axai.com.au.