The channel · The shorts experiment · 2026

The shorts experiment.

In 2026 I ran a season of AI shorts. RAXXO the raccoon, Lexxa the AI brand ambassador, one human director, zero actors. The daily run has stopped. The channels have not: what goes up at @raxxo.official now is the work and the products it turns into.

The uploads playlist · YouTube

Season 2026 15 seconds per short 0 stock footage 0 human actors

Cast · Two characters

Two characters, zero actors.

Both rendered by AI, both directed by me, both openly disclosed.

RAXXO the raccoon in a lime hoodie, hood up, lying down with his chin on his paws

RAXXO · The mascot

Cast · The mascot

RAXXO.

The studio mascot. Every frame generated from scratch, no stock footage, no borrowed characters. The same raccoon in every episode.

15s per short A month of shorts in about an hour
Lexxa, the AI brand ambassador, portrait on a dark stage

Lexxa · AI brand ambassador

Cast · AI brand ambassador

Lexxa.

Visuals, animation and voice, all AI. I wrote, directed and checked every episode. She explained tech, reviewed AI tools and covered dev culture across five content pillars.

5 content pillars 2 voice modes

How an episode was made

01

Script

Claude wrote the scripts. Ten minutes covered a week of episodes.

02

Frames

Magnific AI generated every frame. Same character, every time.

03

Video and voice

Kling moved the frames, Magnific Voice spoke the lines.

04

Edit and export

After Effects cut frames, video and voice into a vertical 1080 by 1920 short.

Advertisement: the Magnific link is an affiliate link. It costs you nothing and pays the studio a share if you sign up.

Elsewhere · The channels

Still posting, just not daily.

Every short from the season is still there, and new posts are about the tools and the products. All three at @raxxo.official.

What continued

The writing carried on in the Lab.

What I build, what breaks, what I would do differently, written down as it happens.