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Hollywood workers represented by IATSE Local 839 a.k.a.
the Animation Guild are inactive negotiationsfor the future of their industry.
Putting aside the controversy, I think its just going to happen.
Kawamori isnt an AI optimist.
The question becomes, are the animators actually thinking to themselves,Oh, it hurts?
Or are they just copying him because it looks pretty?
Perhaps that is the kind of thing AI might never fully accomplish, he acknowledges.
We are not replenishing our ranks as much, he says.
Theres fewer and fewer staff able to work on it.
And he sees its use, even in more actual creative processes, like keyframing, as an inevitability.
And through those feelings, what are we actually producing?
What do we actually bring forth?
