DeNA and Utopai Studios to Test AI Anime Production Workflow
DeNA is extending its company-wide "AI all-in" strategy into anime production, with the stated boundary that final creative decisions remain with human creators.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Utopai Studios announced September 3 that it will collaborate with DeNA's Entertainment Development Division to begin verifying AI-assisted anime production workflows. The collaboration uses Utopai's production AI "PAI" for character and background visual development and scene design, testing whether long works keep design and worldview consistency. Story, direction, and visual style decisions stay with creators. PAI is already used overseas, including an AI-assisted anime series co-produced with China's Huace Film & TV. DeNA is applying its "AI all-in" policy to anime.
Utopai Studios is a US AI video production company founded in 2022. It develops the PAI production base for feature films and anime while producing its own film and TV works, and runs an Asia division covering Japan and Korea.
In the DeNA collaboration, PAI will handle character and background visual development and scene design, with the verification goal being whether long works can keep design and worldview consistency. Story, direction, and visual style stay with creators, so they can focus on judgment and expression rather than handing the work to AI.
PAI is already in practical use on feature-length work, including the AI-assisted anime series "Journey to the West: The Lost Five Hundred Years" co-produced with China's Huace Film & TV.
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