“I never even thought of entrusting directing to AI.
I thought it would be pointless to let AI do the interesting parts of video productions.
[But] Anime production is made up of imitation.
Animators have to imitate character designs, and in-betweeners have to imitate key drawings.
That’s how anime is made.
[Animators] have fewer and fewer opportunities to think about directing.
It’s an environment where it’s difficult to develop animators who can direct.
I hope that by using AI to reduce production costs, animators will have more opportunities to direct.”
