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Pixar co-founder's new AI role is reigniting animation's biggest debate

Is it a "huge knife in the back" for animation?

Wan-Animate-2 Goes Open Source, Challenging Commercial Leaders In AI Character Animation

Wan-Animate-2 is now open source, offering real-time 24 fps character animation without skeletal pose extraction. Alibaba says the framework can match commercial systems such as Dreamina and KLING ...
Variety

AI in Animation Is Not an All-or-Nothing Proposition

A recent panel of animation players and experts posited an optimistic view of AI’s potential role in animation As industry jobs decline, AI could offer avenues for independent animators through ...
Marketplace

Chinese animation house puts AI capabilities to the test

Chris Bremble, founder of a Beijing-headquartered visual effects and animation firm called Base Media and an Emmy award winner, remembers the first time he heard about generative artificial ...
Geeky Gadgets

New 3D AI Animation App Cascadeur for iOS

Cascadeur has introduced a new mobile app for iOS, allowing 3D AI animation creation directly on iPhones and iPads. This innovative application brings the robust capabilities of Cascadeur’s desktop ...
Geeky Gadgets

Why Most AI Animations Fall Flat and How to Pick the Perfect Style

AI animation combines artistic techniques with advanced algorithms to create a variety of visual styles. Dan Kieft examines how AI enables everything from painterly, Arcane-inspired textures to the ...
Forbes

Runway AI Is Changing Animation. How To Use It To Tell Untold Stories

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Gerui Wang writes about AI, society, media, and culture. “Traditional pipelines for facial animation often involve complex, ...
Deadline.com

Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”

Representatives of international animation, screenwriters and actors guilds staged a protest at the Annecy Animation Film Festival on Thursday to voice their fears over the implications of generative ...
IGN

How AI Became a New Animation Battlefield: 'I Can't Wait for Them to Get Sued'

This feature is part of AI Week. For more stories, including how AI can improve accessibility in gaming and comments from experts like Tim Sweeney, check out our hub. On Feb. 26, Corridor Crew – a ...
Cartoon Brew

AI Animation Startup Animaj Raises $85 Million In New Funding Round

AI can be a scary word in the animation industry, but what many fail to recognize is that it’s a broad umbrella term for a multitude of tools, pipelines, and production approaches. This latest ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Entry-Level Staffers Are Most Susceptible to Disruption by AI, Animation Guild Says

A new document from the union's AI task force finds that generative AI applications and programs create outputs "that can target most of the job categories of TAG members." By Katie Kilkenny ...