10 Animators to Watch on AI, Animation’s Future and Why the Human Hand Still Matters: ‘Nobody Else Has Your Point of View’ — SkimNews
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- SCAD AnimationFest held its 10th annual edition in Atlanta, with the final day dedicated to a panel on the future of animation in the age of AI
- 10 animators and an Oscar-nominated director took the stage to argue that the human hand still matters in animation despite advancing AI tools, with the panel declaring 'Nobody Else Has Your Point of View'
- Variety profiled the 2026 class of 10 Animators to Watch in its New York issue, spotlighting the featured panelists from the SCAD event
- The 2026 cohort represents a broa… — with the source text truncated mid-sentence, suggesting Variety's full profile spans additional thematic territory beyond AI
Why it matters: By centering 10 early-career animators alongside an Oscar-nominated director, SCAD and Variety are publicly staking a pro-human-craft position in the industry's AI debate — a framing that matters because emerging artists are the talent pipeline studios will draw from as generative tools reshape production pipelines.
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