Puente Launches AI Anime Factory For Generative Production
A commercial one-stop AI orchestration offer at one-third to one-half conventional cost, aimed at webtoon adaptations and short-form AI anime, puts the pricing question ahead of the tooling question for production committees comparing AI against hand-drawn pipelines.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Puente Inc. launched Puente AI Anime Factory, a generative AI service that handles anime and music PV production from planning through editing. The company says it delivers comparable quality at roughly one-third to one-half conventional cost, with pilot reference footage in as little as about one week. The service includes character design, cut-by-cut image and video generation, voice, sound effects, BGM, subtitling, and format export, plus a dashboard tracking progress and man-hours.
Puente Inc. opened the service with a quasi-mandate contract and monthly billing, a pricing shape built for recurring volume rather than one-off projects. Production runs under one flow: episode and segment planning, cut-by-cut still and video generation, audio, then editing and compositing.
The company routes different video generation models per cut, separating static dialogue cuts, action cuts, and key visual-grade cuts to balance quality against cost. Character design is anchored to original manga panels and reference images so the same character holds across a rising cut count. A progress dashboard tracks man-hours per process for deadline management, and output extends to subtitling and distribution-format export.
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