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Will AI Become Friend or Foe to Animators?


Animators debate whether AI tech will help or hinder creativity and production, as well as their own careers.

“At the end of the day, computers are expensive pencils,” says Cathal Gaffney, managing director of Dublin-based Brown Bag Films (“Dylan’s Playtime Adventures”). Often story, characters and overall animation spend years in development between preproduction and the iterative production process when scenes are repeatedly screened, workshopped and rewritten. Drew Mullin, executive in charge of production for CBC Kids in Canada, believes broadcasters are concerned about AI scraping data from non-licensed sources since it can bring up copyright issues.

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