Like ‘having sex and then they hand you the baby’: A beloved animator on using AI

‘Book of Life’ writer-director Jorge R. Gutierrez is creating an AI-enabled series with Amazon MGM Studios’ new gen AI pipeline. Social media says he’s selling out.

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Writer and director Jorge R. Gutierrez is best known for creating the 2014 animated film The Book of Life. A labor of love and a tribute to Mexican folk art, the movie took Gutierrez 14 years to make, and it paid off: The Book of Life’s beautiful handcrafted 3D animation was near universally lauded.

But Gutierrez’s next project is taking a different approach. It won’t........

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