I think every artist has always dreamed of making their own cartoon at one point or another, maybe even right now, but the overall cost of producing it, both in time and money, was just too much considering how many resources you'd need to pour in to make an episode and even then the RoI doesn't compare to more lucrative options like gaming, livestreaming, or pumping out slop by the hour with AI and raking in the AdSense. Even with the current tools and lower entry bar, there's still a high level of manual work needed for your animation to look good, which of course eats up your time here on Earth. So imagine that in 2025, there's a new tool where manual animating could potentially be entirely automated via machines, thus shaving off literal months of work allowing you to push out episodes faster and achieve your dreams of becoming the independent creator of YOUR OWN cartoon! No longer do you have to go through bullshit corporate ladder climbing just to get a fraction of a CHANCE to get your show greenlit (and even then, there's always the option that Corpo could just pull the plug entirely if it isn't raking in Spongebob money by the first episode).
But for some god knows what reason, artfaggots fucking HATE the idea of AI automating their work for them. I understand making straight AI slop/art doesn't look appealing beyond "it's cool a computer made that", but think of the bigger picture like how you could sketch in movement of a character walking and the AI would finish the look of it entirely. Or how AI could automatically color every frame of an animation, or that AI would fill in the in-betweens of every frame that was manually drawn. The possibilities of cutting down time and effort for a finished product is endless, yet artists would rather slave away taking forever to make their "GIGA STUDIO GHIBLI PIXAR AKIRA MOVIE 9000 (WITH BLACKJACKS AND HOOKERS!)" cartoon that's never coming out instead of finding ways on cutting down the work while maintaining a level of quality. Like many other times the paradigm was shifted for humanity throughout history, this is all just a phase and as the years go by, people will be more accepting of integrating AI into their workflow once it gets better and they won't be autistically, vehemently against it.
The first iterations of the printing press, camera, digital drawing tablet, and Internet wasn't perfect either, so don't act like AI won't do what you're doing but more efficiently later on.
