How Krikey AI Powers a Generative AI Animation Experience in AWS Skills Center

Learn how AWS Skills Centers are using Krikey AI’s generative AI experience to help visitors learn about AI and cloud concepts in a more approachable, interactive, and fun way.

Krikey AI helps visitors to the AWS Skills Center understand complex topics like generative AI and animation. Curious visitors navigate through the space, discovering learning paths to become an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certified AI Practitioner.

Summary of the Generative AI project at AWS Skills Center Locations

Description

AWS Skills Center partnered with Krikey AI to power their Generative AI interactive exhibit. Visitors at the Seattle, AWS Skills Center Arlington, and Cape Town locations experiment with animation using custom characters, 2D and 3D backgrounds, and voice dialogue in multiple languages. The goal was to remove barriers to entry for those with no prior technical background. Krikey AI was asked to create an experience that would allow students to grasp the power of cloud computing through an accessible application.

Krikey AI Features Used

The Krikey AI AWS Skills Center experience enables visitors to generate an animated video with a custom character, animation, dialogue and background. Krikey AI developed and combined several AI models including AI Animation, voice AI and AI image generation for personalized video backgrounds. 

Challenge

Generative AI is powerful but often abstract. AWS Skills Centers are designed to make cloud education accessible to anyone, including those with no prior tech background. One challenge was helping learners understand and feel comfortable with Generative AI, which can seem intimidating. The AWS Skills Center program needed a way to make generative AI tangible, fun, and accessible — turning curiosity into confidence and closing the cloud and AI skills gaps.

“We’re excited to partner with AWS Skills Center to empower anyone to animate a 3D talking character in minutes. Krikey AI is built exclusively on AWS because of the technical support and breadth of AI cloud services.” — Ketaki Shriram, CTO, Krikey AI

Solution for Generative AI experience at AWS Skills Center

By integrating Krikey AI Animation software into the Generative AI exhibit, AWS Skills Center visitors can:

• Choose a cartoon style 3D Custom Character.
• Add dialogue that’s automatically lip-synced for accuracy and clear communication
• Use Multilingual Narration to make content accessible across diverse communities.
• Apply Background Customization to place characters in realistic environments.

This hands-on activity shows learners how simple and creative Generative AI can be, turning abstract concepts into interactive, personal experiences.

Results from AWS Skills Center Arlington and beyond

• Hands-On Learning: Learners gain confidence by experimenting directly with Generative AI tools.
• Accessibility: Multilingual characters help ensure inclusion across the Skills Centers’ diverse audiences.
• Scalability: New animations can be created quickly, keeping training materials fresh and relevant.
• Engagement: Visitors spend more time exploring, experimenting, and sharing their creations.

Time & Cost

• Time Savings: Learners can animate characters in minutes, instead of hours or days with traditional tools.
• Cost Efficiency: By embedding Krikey AI directly into the exhibit, AWS demonstrates the time and cost savings using AI for complex technical processes like animation.
• Priceless Value: Learners gain confidence and curiosity about Generative AI, opening pathways toward certifications and careers in the cloud.

Use Cases

• Generative AI Education: Helping learners get hands-on with AI by creating animated videos.
• Accessibility & Inclusion: Supporting multilingual narration and unique characters.
• Interactive Exhibits: Enhancing Cloud Discovery Spaces with animation experiences.
• Instructor Support: Allowing AWS staff to demonstrate tangible AI experiences alongside learning modules.

About the Customer

AWS Skills Center is a global learning initiative by Amazon Web Services, offering free cloud training and interactive experiences to anyone curious about the cloud — no technical background required.

Across its locations in Seattle (USA), Arlington (USA), and Cape Town (South Africa), AWS Skills Centers provide hands-on exhibits in their Cloud Discovery Spaces, live instructor-led classes, virtual offerings, career coaching, and networking events to support people at all stages of their learning journey.

Their aim is to help learners understand cloud computing, emerging tech like generative AI, and prepare for certifications such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — making tech more approachable, inclusive, and accessible.

About Krikey AI

Krikey AI Animation tools empower anyone to animate a cartoon character in minutes. The character animations can be used in marketing, tutorials, games, films, social media, lesson plans and more. Krikey offers an animation video editor that creators can use to add lip synced dialogue, change backgrounds, facial expressions, hand gestures, camera angles and more to their animated videos. Krikey's AI tools are available online at www.krikey.ai today, on Canva Apps, Adobe Express and on the AWS Marketplace!