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Main Crew: An Animator’s Letter on Who Counts in Animation

When the next wave of AI in animation hits, whose names will we know? The US conversation has a number — 118,500 jobs at risk by 2026, built from a survey of 300 US executives. The global animation workforce is over a million people. Most of them are not in that number, the headlines, or the room where the next AI model is being designed. Essay 3 in Losing Each Other.

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Losing Each Other: An Animator’s Letter on AI in Animation

Jorge Gutierrez pulled out of Punky Duck on Friday after a wave of online hostility around his use of AI in animation. In this first piece of a three-part series, an animator’s letter from inside both the craft and the new tools — what I am learning about the discourse, where I part ways with the response, and what I think the corporations are quietly building while we strangle each other over experiments.

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