SCOOP: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned.

This should be required viewing for everyone. It's so satisfying to watch Karen laugh in this dude's face when he repeats the marketing points of AI executives and marketing buzzwords.

Emmy-nominated 'Goldie' creator Emily Brundige is crowdfunding her newest IP, 'Strawberry Vampire,' rather than pitching it to a studio, and plans to keep the property all to herself, even if "hopefully it'll outlive me." www.cartoonbrew.com/series/emily...

Snurffles is booping in to say hi!!! #Snurffles #hedgehog #animation #cute

Reboot! Remake! Sequel! Reunion! Recap! Prequel! Live-action adaptation! Spinoff! New season of a 20-year-old TV show! Deaged actors! Midquel! Cinematic universe! Podcasts! Post-credit scenes! Theme parks! Broadway adaptation! Video game tie-in! Graphic novel tie-in! Nothing ever ends.

first time animating the Toa Mata from Bionicle! (it's the jojo shoulder shake dance lmao) original rigs by @iconicstills.bsky.social , IK added by me! shoutout to @notherobot.bsky.social for the bionicle animation inspo! i def wanna animate these guys more fahaha

Check out a first look at Disney’s ASL re-animated songs from 'Encanto,' 'Frozen 2,' and 'Moana 2,' coming to Disney+ next week. The studio reworks key musical sequences using performance-driven signing. www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos...

YouTube’s 2026 animation trends report reinforces a familiar claim: independent creators aren’t just participating in the industry, they’re reshaping it. Now the platform has data to support that argument. www.cartoonbrew.com/distribution...

The Sora implosion is the first big breakthrough moment with AI that gives Metaverse vibes, or at the very least Dot Com Bubble vibes.

“What radicalized you?” Team Rocket tbh

TCM is single-handedly keeping film history alive

I’ve been using an Android tablet for the last month (Wacom MovinkPad Pro 14) and I’m lowkey obsessed with it. The ONLY thing missing for me is Procreate Dreams. Does anyone have a similar animation tool for Android that they recommend? Preferably one without a monthly subscription, thank you 😁

For what its worth, the last time I was in a Waymo at night, it stopped in the middle of the road for seemingly no reason. But when I looked at the LiDAR screen, it had actually detected a small black cat in the middle of the road. The car waited for it to cross the street before continuing.

They couldn't have used a better image for this story🙃

Great news! You can watch all my Animation Breakdown & Commentary [ABC] Videos & Reactions on this mega YouTube playlist here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCxm...

Btw I got a Steam Deck and I was definitely overthinking this. It's great.

KPop Demon Hunters will also be nominated for Best Picture, mark my words.

I haven’t seen Zootopia 2 yet, but I’m curious: are there any scenes worth dissecting from a character animation standpoint? I’m wondering if it’s worth making a video about it before the end of the year

Hmmm

I was looking forward to the Xbox Ally but these reviews have me hesitating on getting one, and instead looking at the Steam Deck. However, the button / joystick layout is quite jarring. Can anyone with a Steam Deck comment on the ergonomics and how comfy this layout is? Am I overthinking this?

I'm so tired man

Sometimes the same video I post on two different platforms gets COMICALLY different view counts, despite similar analytics. On YouTube Shorts, the video got 2K views. Awesome! But compare that to TikTok where the same video has 4.2 MILLION views 😮 So post your stuff, you never know what’ll pop off

Breaking news: the "AI first" company is relying on the hard work of real human artists at Titmouse to give them high quality animation instead of using Generative AI because "AI first" is a meaningless slogan designed solely to get likes on LinkedIn.

Like I've said before, GenAI will not be stopped by regulation or advocacy - it'll be stopped by copyright infringement. Disney, Universal, & Warner Bros are suing Midjourney, not because of their diffusion model, but bc of their stolen training data. Best believe that if they win, OpenAI is next.

'Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle' pulled in a staggering $10M in Thursday previews. The film is on pace to break 'Pokémon's' 26-year-old North American opening weekend record and could pass that film as the highest-grossing anime film in NA history. www.cartoonbrew.com/anime/demon-...

Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.

I'm sorry but the budget for this tech demo STILL being $30M feels like money laundering. How are you using low-cost services like ChatGPT & Sora to generate all animation & assets, yet your budget is still 4 times more expensive than "Flow" (~$6M)? Can't wait for Cannes to reject this movie lol

I just know that somewhere there’s a studio executive who has CONVINCED himself that the Gabby’s Dollhouse movie is going to be as successful as KPop Demon Hunters was this past weekend😬

James I need you to know that VFX artists work 12 hour days, pay insanely high premiums for health insurance, and in many cases make less than $20/hr. And it's even less outside the US. How much lower do you think costs can come down?

Just found out the first Ne Zha movie is FREE on YouTube? With the ORIGINAL MANDARIN DUB?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdg2...

I really should watch more anime

Why is there no addon for Firefox that concatenates "-ai" at the end of a Google search URL so it automatically hides AI content? Do I need to make this myself?

If you told me The Bad Guys earned $22.2M for their 2nd movie, coming in 2nd place at the box office, I wouldn't believe you. And yet...

'The Bad Guys 2' tuned up its hand-drawn flair and embraced classic anime inspirations. “We started watching more anime and brought more people on to throw even crazier anime ideas at us,” says effects supervisor Matt Baer. www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

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I can't believe KPOP DEMON HUNTERS uses BEAN MOUTH for their animation!! 😡😡😡 I'm so SICK of this trend! When will these studios actually TRY to come up with a NEW art style??? The design is SO UGLY. Give us something ORIGINAL, we don't want this WOKE GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!! #netflix #animation #kpop

An English-language dub for 'Ne Zha 2,' the highest-grossing animated feature ever, will get a theatrical release in August from A24. www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

Siri is broken af #iOS26

One Grubhub commercial has done more damage to the modern Western animation industry than anything else in recent memory. It’s handed the loud uninformed critics fresh ammo to accuse Pixar’s recent films of looking “AI-generated” / “soulless,” which kills the reach of great stories like #Elio.

Are we too hard on Live-Action Remakes? Clearly these films are very popular despite the amount of criticism from the Internet. So are they really an "insult to animation" or are they as harmless as a Broadway adaptation? #animation #httyd #liloandstitch #disney #dreamworks #toothless #movies #film

If you ever want to know how lowly animation is seen by the rest of the film world, look no further than the NY Times survey of the 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century based on a survey of 500 filmmakers, stars & "influential" film fans. Just 4 animated films, and 3 are Pixar. 🙄🙄

Why are all the major studio animated film announcements at Annecy about voice actors? Does anyone truly give a crap if Ice Spice or Patton Oswalt is in your movie? Animation has evolved in the last 20 years but Hollywood's marketing playbook is sadly still stuck in the 2000s.

This might become one of the greatest comeback stories in animation history!! Huge congrats to the Coyote vs Acme team and the entire anim + VFX community for not giving up on the art form of animation!! ✊ #coyotevsacme #standwithanimation #animation #movies

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Report: Disney’s shift of ‘Moana 2’ production to Canada cost California hundreds of million in economic benefit. The information is part of a new study showing the dire condition of California's once-dominant animation industry.

Eric has the best Bionicle animations out there, this is so rad!

bbno$ saw my animation demo reel and loved it!! 🤯 Who thinks I should make an animation for him? #animation #animator #lego #venom #spiderverse #bionicle #art

Hey US-based artists, our government is preparing an executive order on AI & asking for public comment. Let's get some letters in (AI corps sure are)! You must submit by 11:59 EST tonight!! I made a sample letter with submission instructions. Copy mine & augment, or write your own! bit.ly/429UIIw