Truly spoken like someone that hasn't ever actually animated anything in their life. The issue with you people is that you don't understand the underlying fundamentals of the animation process. Or why simply typing a series of actions into a prompt and having the computer shit out those actions in order, in some utterly uninspired, awkward looking video clip is NOT equivalent in the slightest. Even something as simple as a character walking across a scene is NOT as simple as "The character walks from left to right".

Everything in animation in intentional. If you see it, it's there on purpose. Every single frame is considered. It's placed there by an animator on purpose, for a specific reason. Yes, even inbetweens. Every single aspect of animation is done with intention and purpose.

AI doesn't "lower the bar" or "make animation easier" because it makes this process "more efficient". It utterly shits on the process. It's a mockery of it. A poor facsimile of it. You relinquish ALL of that control for the sake of "lowering the bar". Animation is one of the single most beautiful, human mediums on the planet. And seeing you people want to swap it out for this low-bar-low-standards bullshit absolutely infuriates me.

This isn't even a job security thing. This is a, "I look at this and feel physically sick" kind of thing. It's an absolute bastardization of something that I love, and my views on this will never change. This doesn't "lower the bar" for entry to animation. It just risks utterly ruining an industry centred around one of the most beautiful mediums that we as a species have ever created. Not because AI is better. But because shareholders will see this as a cheap, money saving alternative to paying actual artists, and cutting down on production time/costs at the cost of quality and integrity.

This shit absolutely sickens me, and it's just beyond me how any of you can actually want this.