AI Could Slash Animation Production Costs By 90 Percent

@rohanpaul_ai My studio @promise_ai is quoted in this article.

@Stretchedwiener @rohanpaul_ai Technology has made it easier than ever to make film - even before this stuff - yet the real world barriers are never going to disappear.

Bloomberg: AI is pushing animation toward a cost collapse, with Hollywood filmmakers saying feature production could fall by 90% as studios, workers, and unions brace for fewer human jobs.

Hollywood employment has already been pressured by strikes, fewer productions, mergers, and AI-driven restructuring.

--- bloomberg .com/news/newsletters/2026-06-28/animation-s-ai-reckoning-filmmakers-say-they-can-make-movies-for-90-less

@rohanpaul_ai It'll kill most of the viewing audience too. No one wants AI slop.

it's not all bad.

Accross the Spider Verse hired more animators then any film before and also used AI post processing and frame interpolation.

Truth is you've already seen stuff and not realized it. AI is used now for denoising in blender.

And fundamentally there's zero difference from a technical perspective between grok imagine and what Sony did.

I don't think animators are going anywhere anytime soon

@rohanpaul_ai AI is performing good for animation clips..

@cybercpu @rohanpaul_ai I’ve regularly been seeing people criticize and label things as AI that aren’t even AI. It’s getting to the point where you idiots can’t tell the difference anymore.

@rohanpaul_ai I won't watch a cinema film with AI special effects in it.

@rohanpaul_ai 90 percent less isn't the democratization that ai fans have been yelling about. That's still too expensive for most of them. Were they tricked into supporting a thing they won't be able to afford access to?

@rohanpaul_ai What will happen to creativity ? Over long run human creativity will also reduce

@rohanpaul_ai when it comes to ART, creating thru own hands and bringing things to life is better than telling your AI to do it multiple times and it still wouldn't get your imagination because imo most of the times our own words do not reflect our imagination. only your imagination does.

@rohanpaul_ai I highly doubt this. Just to get the same quality takes so many variations and prompts and re runs that I could see token use costing more than normal production.

@rohanpaul_ai But how do they qualify this stuff for copyright?

@MrPeterLMorris @rohanpaul_ai IMO you already did and just don’t know bro

@rohanpaul_ai Yeah and the writting falling by 95%.

@rohanpaul_ai With dramatically reduced costs, we will see more productions, more production companies, and more original stories. The barrier to entry is dropping.

@cybercpu @rohanpaul_ai you can't tell. nobody can if it's done correctly

@EndlessGait @rohanpaul_ai That's what makes social media so nice. You can say things that are completely not true and there's nothing to stop it.

Like for instance claiming people can't tell when something is AI generated. Because everyone can tell. You're not fooling anyone.

@rohanpaul_ai The other side is many more can make short movies now. Those same workers who are working for others' movies probably they can create their own movies now telling their own stories.

@rohanpaul_ai I mean it's not even close. Animation is a labor of love and it's extremely taxing on those that do it. It is very much limited by the effort you're willing to put in as well. AI quality is leaps and bounds beyond what most animators are willing to make. It's a no brainer.