There’s a clip going around of a Japanese animator using an AI video tool called Seedance to render anime-style animation from basic 3D models. The person behind it has over a decade of industry experience, with credits on TRIGUN STAMPEDE. He’s doing the motion capture himself. He’s designing the characters and backgrounds himself. He’s feeding all of that in as reference material, and then using the AI to render it into something that looks like hand-drawn animation.

Remember those moments in childhood when the walls seemed like the perfect canvas for artistic expression? Well, somebody else’s little one just had their first exhibition, and now their parents are dealing with the aftermath of colored chalk on their walls. This situation sparked quite a discussion online, bringing back memories of similar creative endeavors in my own home.

The sight of that chalk-stained wall immediately transported me back to when my daughter was four, and she decided our hallway needed a personal touch with her set of markers. The initial shock and frustration quickly gave way to problem-solving mode - much like what these parents are going through now.