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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

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OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz'

• Goal is to finish production in 9 months • Budget is ~$30M • Plan is to debut the film at Canne • 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script • Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models

(via WSJ)

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  2. iamdiogenesdog.bsky.social profile picture

    Diogenes Dog @iamdiogenesdog.bsky.social

    Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel were initially all funded by fans/merch/Patreon and their entire production company does in house, hand drawn animation, along with some of the best writing out there IMO

    Multiple Tony Award winners on the voice acting cast, so screw this talentless AI drek

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  4. camerontalley.bsky.social profile picture

    @camerontalley.bsky.social

    Ok but I can’t wait until some well meaning grandma orders the “critters” movie for their 4 year old.

    Alt: a black and white photo of a monster with its mouth open in a movie . It’s a clip from Critters.
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  12. toyfu332.bsky.social profile picture

    Nick from Toy-Fu @toyfu332.bsky.social

    I feel like the ideology of "we do not want to give creative people any input on our creative work" is more important to these groups than the extra profit gained by not paying humans to do the work.

    Like Rockefeller being mad about Standard Oil being broken up, even though it made him richer.

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  14. nerorambling.bsky.social profile picture

    Nero, #1 Dedan Fan @nerorambling.bsky.social

    The fact that these kinds of people will cry about how they can't afford to pay their workers a livable wage while dumping every cent into this garbage fills me with so much rage.

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  16. crithon.bsky.social profile picture

    Victor Roa @crithon.bsky.social

    so at what point does it become HARDCORE PORN? Since porn is more open to different technology into trying to see what it's own audience does, and this.... may get shoveled down to the tech demo sections at film conventions.

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  17. holdon.templeoftherat.com profile picture

    Hold on! @holdon.templeoftherat.com

    The best-faith argument is that this includes R&D cost.

    The LEAST likely R&D outcome is a fully automatic movie machine. More likely, they'll make a series of tools that allow artists to fix the animation and consistency by... reanimating parts of it.

    Or they ignore the flaws and it looks uncanny.

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  19. daltonherriott.bsky.social profile picture

    Dalton @daltonherriott.bsky.social

    The combined cost of Satoshi Kon's work was $7,030,000 ($12.3 million with inflation)

    Perfect Blue: $830,000 ($1.7 million) Millennium Actress: $1.2 million ($2.2 million) Tokyo Godfathers: $2.4 million ($4.2 million) Paprika: $2.6 million ($4.2 million)

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  22. areswinc.bsky.social profile picture

    Ares /YNH @areswinc.bsky.social

    When billionaries have that much money already, it´s never about the cost (that´s just the excuse) It´s about cruelty. Cruelty is the point. They are putting load and loads of money in order to push for AI, while firing every human they can.

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  23. oceanotter.bsky.social profile picture

    Otter @oceanotter.bsky.social

    Your math on the inflation adjustments are wrong, but even 30m seems way too high for a feature length movie that doesn't involve much human creative input.

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  24. trishpaton.bsky.social profile picture

    Trish Paton @trishpaton.bsky.social

    On top of all the other comments already in thread (yes, this will suck and it should never get made and bomb completely if it does)…

    Cannes. They hope to debut this at Cannes. I sincerely hope that Cannes laughs them out the door and off the planet.

    (Nor will I be surprised if Cannes runs it)🤬

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  29. daktangle.bsky.social profile picture

    Dak @daktangle.bsky.social

    What the heck are they even spending that money on if they're using GenAI to make it!? Who's getting all of that cash?

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  32. notlikewe.bsky.social profile picture

    egg16z @notlikewe.bsky.social

    The Paddington 3 writers are hacks anyway but how does the WGA allow them to keep their union cards after this?

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  33. papabearman.bsky.social profile picture

    Papa Bearman @papabearman.bsky.social

    My question is, what is the crew complement of this movie? How many people have a hand in making it? And no, I don't mean the senior accountant at OpenAI's Burbank office that gets his name put in the credits because the executives think they matter.

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  38. pouchprints.bsky.social profile picture

    Cami 🐻 @pouchprints.bsky.social

    The pollution produced making this slop is going to give an entire working class community lung rot meanwhile the most boring white suburbanite tech workers you've ever met will insist this is peak cinema.

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  39. dangyd.bsky.social profile picture

    Dandy G🍌 @dangyd.bsky.social

    I wonder if they’re debuting at Cannes specifically so they can get panned by critics, and then turn around and use that negative response as marketing. “THEY don’t want you to enjoy this!!!”

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  41. jackedhunk.bsky.social profile picture

    jacked hunk @jackedhunk.bsky.social

    This is pretty on brand though. Why spend money paying artists to make great art that everybody loves when you could be paying twice money for AI to make worse art that everybody finds disappointing?

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  45. moonsongw.bsky.social profile picture

    MoonSong @moonsongw.bsky.social

    It was never about cost. It's about controlling the means of productions and monopolizing their freedom of expressions if none would touch their propaganda. With AI they don't need animators or actors to push their ideas down anyone's throats. The AI can do it. Billionaires have class consciousness

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  48. diecastls.bsky.social profile picture

    A DieCast Lifestyle @diecastls.bsky.social

    Maybe it's been said, but the Oz360 was supposed to be AI 'enhanced', then turned out to be the work of at least 5 VFX shops, because the AI output sucked, with some very irate artists upset that even that mess was not credited to them.

    Full "don't tell me you're gonna, tell me when you've done it"

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  54. masastormeez.bsky.social profile picture

    Masastormyponez @masastormeez.bsky.social

    And how exactly is this gonna cost less for the studio? Do they believe people would go and watch it knowing it's made with AI and they'd get their money back by default? 🤨

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  57. simonl.bsky.social profile picture

    Simon L @simonl.bsky.social

    They're probably comparing themselves with Disney and Pixar CG animation, which can cost hundreds of millions.

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  58. joburt1991.bsky.social profile picture

    Joburt @joburt1991.bsky.social

    God I hope the internet doesn't do it's normal strategy of leading a failed boycott of this film. Advocacy for piracy of anything made with AI will be much more effective.

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  64. flind.bsky.social profile picture

    Flindasaurus @flind.bsky.social

    this is a perfect demolition of the glib argument that 3D films are cheaper to make than 2D. they never have been, but it has always been an excuse to get big tech in bed with big media. Ed Catmull isn't a creative, he's a computer scientist, and it shows.

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  66. sayingnowt.bsky.social profile picture

    Ali @sayingnowt.bsky.social

    Just watched Signs of Life (2025) in the cinema and it’s beautiful, thoughtful, different and memorable.

    Total cost to make? £30,000

    youtu.be/KFOoXytQcWM?...

    (PS. Don’t be put off by that ‘feel-good’ tag… it definitely isn’t!)

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  68. breadcatstudio.bsky.social profile picture

    BreadCat @breadcatstudio.bsky.social

    The price tag is meant to tell us that they're willing to pay anything to replace the real artists with AI. Don't watch it in any way. Don't even watch it

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  72. adellrazh.bsky.social profile picture

    Adell Razh @adellrazh.bsky.social

    The $30 million gives enormous Lucille Bluth energy. These are people who have no concept of what things actually cost outside of their hyperinflated, venture capital-flush little tech hype corner.

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  73. rendraner.bsky.social profile picture

    Ren Draner @rendraner.bsky.social

    Also Triplets of Belleville and Wolfwalkers are like a blockbuster for european animation because the most of them cost less of 10 millions

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  83. redpandachris.bsky.social profile picture

    Christopher Red @redpandachris.bsky.social

    and triplets of belleville is probably one of the best movies i've ever seen in the history of the world, and I'm not saying the others sucked at all, all genuine masterpieces, and this movie looks like a dumpster fire.

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  84. roryvalart.bsky.social profile picture

    RoryValArt 💛🤍💜🖤(VGen comms open) @roryvalart.bsky.social

    And people will go watch it because AI is the buzzword of the moment, it will be people who don't watch cartoons normally, they will rightfully notices that it sucks and assume every cartoon is as bad. This shit aims at fucking over a whole genre to enrich few people. Happy capitalism.

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  85. jmtv.bsky.social profile picture

    JMTV (🔞 MINORS DNI & GTFO) @jmtv.bsky.social

    Does these billionaires think that blowing money on slop like this is going to make them successful as Disney and Pixar?

    To me, it does feel like envious and jealousy. Not to mention, a bunch of cunt hacks, too.

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  87. matkura.bsky.social profile picture

    MatKura @matkura.bsky.social

    Funny how hollywood executives like to talk about GenAI helping them make movies faster and cheaper lmao

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  88. hexylady.bsky.social profile picture

    Hexy Lady Trusty @hexylady.bsky.social

    They genuinely are playing at "ok so we're gonna do something that requires zero effort and produces actual shit and to pay for it we need 10 million more than one of the best animated movies ever made"

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  90. reynardl.bsky.social profile picture

    Reynard L @reynardl.bsky.social

    It's not about making money probably, it's about showing people what it can do and then having them use their AI. It's just a marketing ploy and I hope Cannes doesn't let them show it

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  91. queengwenevere.bsky.social profile picture

    Queen Gwenevere @queengwenevere.bsky.social

    Is this going to be another thing where the art and animation credits are just “Made with New Shiny Magical AI!!” and they fail to list the large team of underpaid outsourced humans who manually made or re-made most of it to fix all the generated slop that didn’t work?

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  95. arubru98.bsky.social profile picture

    AruBru98 @arubru98.bsky.social

    If this is what the future's going to look like, I want to go back to the past

    Presumably the 90s and early 2000s at least.

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  98. seanmasterson.bsky.social profile picture

    Sean Masterson @seanmasterson.bsky.social

    It’s not about money. They hate “creatives” and could care less about quality. It’s all about control and never having any pushback to their ideas b/c that makes Execs sad.

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  106. elarcis.fr profile picture

    Elarcis 🐙 @elarcis.fr

    Not mentioning the fact that even some After Effects-animated 2D picture looks better than this trailer.

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  107. megasoups.bsky.social profile picture

    @megasoups.bsky.social

    30 million for what exactly? What on earth do they need so much money producing a gigantic pile of slop for?!

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  109. mythical.pizza profile picture

    Angelic Bastard @mythical.pizza

    Can’t wait to see the fallout on this one when it finally gets ruled they have to pay residuals to every artist openAI trained on and since they already admitted they don’t track that for this entire thing to explode in a flaming ball of dog shit

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  110. axman.bsky.social profile picture

    Axman643 @axman.bsky.social

    Betting they won't be compensating any of the creators of the 'art' they use bc AI isn't sustainable if they have to pay for content. AI CEOs words not mine.

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  112. michaelarias.net profile picture

    Michael Arias @michaelarias.net

    #Tekkonkinkreet budget in 2006 was about ¥450,000,000 equivalent to ¥529,299,679 now, adjusted for Japan inflation.☝️

    In 2006 ¥450,000,000 was $3.8M. But today’s ¥529,299,679 is only $3.6M.🤔

    So it would actually cost less to make in today’s money…?🫣

    Thanks for leading me down this rabbit hole 🫠

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  115. jaci3d.bsky.social profile picture

    Jaci 3D Art @jaci3d.bsky.social

    Triplets of Belleville mentioned! What is great because the movie plot can be interpreted as the blood sucking industry destroying artists' souls for their own gain.

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  116. hawen.bsky.social profile picture

    HaWen @hawen.bsky.social

    literally YucK. imagine hating artists and other people so much you’d spend millions to make trash than talking to people with opinions

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  120. caracan.bsky.social profile picture

    Caracan @caracan.bsky.social

    Was just about to say the same.

    With all the 'Work' being done by AI, you wonder where that money goes if you don't have to pay actual artists to make it. (We totally know, you have to pay people to fix the slop and make it watchable.)

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  124. binomine.bsky.social profile picture

    @binomine.bsky.social

    I would like to point out a lot of your complaints would apply to "Toy Story", which was also 30 million.

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  125. alopexstudios.bsky.social profile picture

    Zannah @alopexstudios.bsky.social

    …and why do their logos always look like a stylized anus, lolsob. I think they have to know they’re shit on some subconscious level even if they refuse to admit it.

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  129. oggypog.bsky.social profile picture

    Oscar @oggypog.bsky.social

    two more outrageously good animations: akira had a ~10m (inflated 25m) budget in 1988, the most expensive animated film ever made at the time. Redline had an estimated budget of 30m (45m) (a reddit post claims 18.5 (28m) but I'm using wikipedias higher estimate to be safe here)

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  132. kootiepatra.bsky.social profile picture

    Kootiepatra @kootiepatra.bsky.social

    Very much secondary to all of the other reasons this is awful, but... that character isn't even cute. It's trying to be cute. It's superficially got cute characteristics. But it's only cute-adjacent (dropping it squarely to "uncanny and unsettling").

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  133. kaseygifford.bsky.social profile picture

    Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social

    Other small budget animated films (inflation included) you should watch instead of Ai shit.

    Ernest and Celestine-$16.3 million Unicorn Wars-$4 million Mary and Max- $12 million I Lost My Body- $6.8 million Robot Dreams- $5 million Marona's Fantastic Tale- $3 million Fixed- $30 million

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