Give every AI a face, a body, and a personality.
Turn a person, pet, mascot, animal, or original idea into a colorful live character that listens, thinks, speaks, gestures, and takes action—without requiring a continuous photorealistic video stream.
The whole menagerie.
Beyond the Alive cast: hybrid photo-overlays, a photo-real sprite mode, expressive creatures, and the research prototypes they all grew from. Every layer renders live in the visitor’s browser at $0/min, forever — you pay only your own AI and voice usage.
Everything below is testable free, right now — no account, no meter.
Sana — hybrid overlay
$0/minCrisp vector portrait that never redraws — only the living ASCII face on top does. Blink, gaze, brows, real viseme mouth shapes.
Theo — living sketch
$0/minA support agent whose ink features “boil” like hand-drawn pencil animation — cached identity strokes, parametric mouth, zero video.
Pip — mascot, color sketch
$0/minAn egg-robot mascot with a color-sketch face plate — tinted brows, colored iris, a blush of accent. Same engine, pure brand character.
Ava — photo-real mode
$0/minA real-photo sprite that listens, blinks, and talks — no generated video stream, so it still renders at $0/min. Ava and Leo are NetShow-owned synthetic personas.
Creatures — expression rigs
$0/minPersonalized creature faces from the Expression Lab — pick one to open its rig:
The prototypes — ASCII · kinetic · sketch
$0/minThree research prototypes on one engine — pure text glyphs, kinetic color type, and living sketch line. This is where the menagerie was born.
Live previews load straight from the NetShow Avatar Lab — same origin, rendered in your browser, at most two running at once to keep this page light. Unlimited visual runtime applies to the client-side renderer; AI, speech, telephony, and provider usage are billed separately.
A character for every gamut.
From a kid’s study buddy to an enterprise governed cast — it’s the same engine and the same $0/min rendering. Pick a face that fits the person in front of it.
Kids
Friendly, guardian-controlled companions that feel like cartoon friends.
High schoolers
Quick-witted characters with personality — never a beige chat box.
College
Terminal-native ASCII faces and casual characters that study late too.
Elderly
Calm, patient presences — large captions, reduced motion, honest state.
Tutors & teachers
Characters that show “thinking” honestly — great for walking through work.
Small business
A support face and a mascot with a day job — no video bill attached.
Mid-size teams
Consultant-grade hybrids for sales, onboarding, and internal help.
Large organizations
One recognizable cast across web, kiosk, and support surfaces.
Enterprise
Brand-locked characters with review workflows, SSO, and audit trails.
Agents got smarter.
Their interfaces did not.
Most AI agents still show up as one of three things — and every one of them wastes the personality you worked so hard to build.
The chat box
Capable, but faceless. No presence, no state, nothing for a customer to remember.
The voice waveform
A pulsing bar has no identity. Every voice agent on earth looks exactly the same.
The generated talking head
Impressive — and expensive to keep on screen, because every frame is rendered video.
A character,
not a clone.
NetShow Alive doesn't try to imitate a recorded person. It gives your agent an original, ownable identity — expression, wardrobe, gesture, and honest state — rendered live in the browser.
That's the difference between renting a face and owning a character your customers recognize everywhere it appears.
Your agent does not have to look human.
Build a recognizable character from a face, pet, mascot, creature, or original idea. Preserve the silhouette and features that make it memorable, then bring it to life through text, sketch lines, color, motion, and agent-aware expression.
One character. Every surface.
Start from a photo, a mascot, or a blank canvas. Alive builds a profile you can render in any style and deploy anywhere your agent lives.
Photo or mascot
Upload with confirmation you have permission — or skip the photo entirely.
Avatar profile
Recognizable features, hair, accessories — a portable identity, not a video file.
Pick your styles
ASCII, living sketch, or full color — same character, three renderers.
Deploy
Embed on your site, run it live, or film it in Studio.
More than lip sync.
Your users always know what the agent is doing. Twelve states, one event stream — and every species expresses them its own way: a cat's ears perk, an owl swivels its head, a dragon lifts its wings, a robot's display changes. Click around.
Pick a look. Keep the character.
Every style is the same profile through a different renderer — switch anytime without losing identity.
Color ASCII / Unicode
Terminal-native charm with live glyph morphing. Loved by developer tools and docs copilots.
Living Sketch
Hand-drawn ink that keeps redrawing itself. Warm, editorial, and unmistakably not a stock human.
line jitter · path redraw · tinted massColor Full Body
Arms, hands, legs, posture, wardrobe. Human profiles and mascots with full gesture range.
gesture IK · outfits · body animationYours, down to the earrings.
Face, hair, hats, glasses, accessories, proportions — plus a wardrobe from boardroom suit to beach day, and branded clothing for business characters.
Branded clothing adds your mark to the chest. Pip is the mascot profile — mascot wardrobe included. Business plans add full brand kits.
Any brain. Any voice.
One living character layer.
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Put a face on the front desk.
Eight places a character outperforms a chat box — same agent, better presence.
Type a script. Get a performance.
Social and educational video with your character: captions, outfit and scene changes, and exports in every aspect ratio.
Pay for the platform—
not every facial movement.
The character renders in your visitor's browser, so its presence costs the same whether it's on screen for ten seconds or an hour. You choose which managed services to add.
Local avatar rendering
Lightweight browser-native rendering. Unlimited visual runtime — no per-minute animation fees.
Managed model & voice
Use NetShow-hosted IQ1 and speech — or connect your own providers and pay them directly.
Cloud video rendering
Only for server-side batch exports. Everyday Studio exports render locally at no extra cost.
Professional services
Character design, brand adaptation, and integration engineering when you want it done for you.
Built consent-first.
Likeness with permission
Photo uploads require confirmation of consent. Source images aren't stored by default, and metadata is stripped where practical.
Consent & likeness policy →Private by default
The renderer runs locally. Mic access is opt-in per session, never automatic — and deletion controls are one click away.
Security & privacy →Safety controls
Guardian controls for experiences involving minors, plus review workflows for published business characters.
Safety controls →Accessible presence
Captions and transcripts, reduced-motion and low-power modes, screen-reader state labels. Targeting WCAG 2.2 AA.
Accessibility statement →Your AI already has a brain.
Give it a presence.
Free to start. Browser-first. Your model, your voice, your character.