Square Enix just went full AI on manga text — the Final Fantasy crew teamed with Tokyo startup Mantra to roll out their new Mantra Engine that scans raw pages, reads bubbles, and auto-slaps in the perfect font, size, style, and placement while saving editors a ridiculous 3,000 hours...
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The animation industry is very broken right now because networks and streamers are cutting WAY back on animated series for kids and they’re mostly greenlighting established IP, not new ideas. The solution, according to industry vets? YouTube first. Show if successful. You know, like...
Age Verification will be the Trojan Horse that allows the government to effectively end anonymity on the internet. It’s being packaged as a way to stop kids from connecting with creeps, but we all know it won’t end there. And both sides of the aisle are giddy at the prospect...
Disney just changed the protagonist of their upcoming animated movie ‘Hexed’ from a boy into a girl. But the characters is still named Billie. Huh. And this is after Pixar cancelled ‘Be Fri’ and claimed it was too female-centric. New Disney Witch Princess...
Amazon Luna just gutted its own features — starting April 10 the cloud service killed off game stores, individual purchases, and third-party subs like EA Play, GOG, Ubisoft+, and Jackbox so now you’re stuck with whatever’s in the Prime or Luna Premium library after June...
