producer-centered over-drafting caused by the burning of funds (an episode of 23 minutes could burn millions of yuan; Up to 12,000 original paintings were drawn in the first episode, and the process went through 5 to 6 repaintings, resulting in a rapid drain of funds.)
According to leaked internal chat logs, the company lost key staff due to worsening financial conditions and management chaos (including frequent retakes and producer decision-making errors).
failure of the management to introduce AI transformation
Feel free to disagree but I feel that the last one isn’t a valid point. What’s the point of introducing AI if mismanagement of budget is the primary cause of concerns? Unless AI is introduced to replace the producer and execs.
I don’t doubt that it really is a criticism that’s being floated now, but I think it’s much more likely that that’s just AI pimps sensing an opportunity rather than an actual criticism made by people who were actually involved.
Not only is it the case that AI couldn’t do anything about mismanagement of budget, but AI couldn’t even really do much of anything at all, since all of the roles that AI can play in that sort of production have been filled in the anime industry for years or even decades now by purpose-built software. So to the degree that the problem might be a failure to use technological tools, it still wouldn’t be a failure to use AI specifically, since they wouldn’t have used AI anyway - they would’ve used the tools that already existed back when AI was still just a techbro fantasy.
So, essentially, mismanagement of funds and labour that could have happened on any project. (Just for comparison’s sake, back in the days when every cel would have needed to be hand-drawn, producing 23 minutes of NTSC-TV animation would have taken a little over 41300 cels if they weren’t able to re-use any (29.97fps * 60sec * 23min), and this studio did around double that amount of work for the first episode if they redid 12000 stills from scratch 5 or 6 times.)
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producer-centered over-drafting caused by the burning of funds (an episode of 23 minutes could burn millions of yuan; Up to 12,000 original paintings were drawn in the first episode, and the process went through 5 to 6 repaintings, resulting in a rapid drain of funds.)
According to leaked internal chat logs, the company lost key staff due to worsening financial conditions and management chaos (including frequent retakes and producer decision-making errors).
failure of the management to introduce AI transformation
Feel free to disagree but I feel that the last one isn’t a valid point. What’s the point of introducing AI if mismanagement of budget is the primary cause of concerns? Unless AI is introduced to replace the producer and execs.
Yeah - that one struck me as suspect at best.
I don’t doubt that it really is a criticism that’s being floated now, but I think it’s much more likely that that’s just AI pimps sensing an opportunity rather than an actual criticism made by people who were actually involved.
Not only is it the case that AI couldn’t do anything about mismanagement of budget, but AI couldn’t even really do much of anything at all, since all of the roles that AI can play in that sort of production have been filled in the anime industry for years or even decades now by purpose-built software. So to the degree that the problem might be a failure to use technological tools, it still wouldn’t be a failure to use AI specifically, since they wouldn’t have used AI anyway - they would’ve used the tools that already existed back when AI was still just a techbro fantasy.
So, essentially, mismanagement of funds and labour that could have happened on any project. (Just for comparison’s sake, back in the days when every cel would have needed to be hand-drawn, producing 23 minutes of NTSC-TV animation would have taken a little over 41300 cels if they weren’t able to re-use any (29.97fps * 60sec * 23min), and this studio did around double that amount of work for the first episode if they redid 12000 stills from scratch 5 or 6 times.)