{"slug": "animaj-brings-ozzy-fox-series-to-disney-plus-as-it-charts-a-path-for-ai-in", "title": "Animaj Brings ‘Ozzy Fox’ Series to Disney Plus as It Charts a Path for AI in Animation", "summary": "Animaj's preschool series \"Ozzy Fox,\" drawn and animated by humans with AI assistance, debuted on YouTube and Disney Junior in July and is launching soon on Disney Plus, marking the studio's first combined project with Disney. Animaj CEO and co-founder Sixte de Vauplane said the studio released FlipMove, a pipeline combining its AI models into one tool for animators, and built an agentic AI workflow in which \"one agent reading the notes, another one coordinating to see which kind of model we have to use,\" aimed at cutting the time from a director's notes to a final cut. De Vauplane said the closed, in-house LLMs give animators \"full control at every frame,\" with AI filling in in-between poses that animators then tweak.", "body_md": "A lot has changed since [I first met the team behind Animaj](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/300000-ai-animated-poses-in-an-instant-my-visit-to-disney-and-the-new-reality-for-cartoons/) at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, in 2025. Since teasing an upcoming project with Disney a year ago, the AI-boosted animation studio has now produced [Ozzy Fox](https://www.animaj.com/brands/ozzy-fox), its first combined project with the animation powerhouse.\n\nDebuting on YouTube and Disney Junior in July and launching on streaming service [Disney Plus](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/disney-plus-review/) soon, the preschool-age show features bright colors, catchy songs and a cute family of foxes. It’s drawn and animated by humans, but with an AI assist to speed things up.\n\nIn the last year, AI has become a more normalized part of the creative process, popping up everywhere from [music](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ai-music-fools-most-people-and-theyre-not-happy-about-it/) to [movies](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/green-screen-gray-box-ai-hollywood-filmmaking/). Studios don’t shy away from saying “AI” anymore; they’re using it to make content faster while — at least in some cases — still keeping humans in jobs.\n\nMore from CNET\n\nAnimaj recently released [FlipMove](https://www.animaj.com/post/animaj-unveils-flipmove-artist-led-ai-animation-workflow), a “pipeline” combining all of the AI models it has been developing over the past few years into a single tool for its animators to use. The studio has also created an agentic AI workflow, Animaj CEO and co-founder Sixte de Vauplane told the media during the [2026 Disney Accelerator Demo Day](https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/disneyland-training-ai-robot-interns/).\n\nSo what does [agentic AI](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/what-is-agentic-ai-everything-to-know-about-artificial-intelligence-agents/) mean for animation? A bunch of agents that have access to AI tools and context about the show so they know when to use each tool, de Vauplane told me last week in Burbank. \n\n“We had one agent reading the notes, another one coordinating to see which kind of model we have to use,” he told me. “Here, what we wanted is to build the ultimate pipeline, CGI pipeline, for animators, for directors, that is built on a closed ecosystem of data.”\n\nThe point of [AI](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/walt-disney-world-brings-ai-into-its-booking-site-2/) is to reduce the time from the director’s initial notes on a storyline to the final cut being produced, he said. \n\n“If you can do twice the notes in the same amount of time, that means twice better in terms of quality, and that’s overall what the industry is looking for,” de Vauplane said. “This use of AI, which is artistic-centric, is really the answer we think the industry should embrace.”\n\nAnimaj animators have “full control at every frame,” de Vauplane told us. Its closed, in-house LLMs have access to context about the show, drawing style, characters and storylines so that suggestions are customized and fit in with what the team wants to achieve.\n\nWhen I first met the team in 2025, they told me their technology doesn’t replace animators; it simply making their jobs less tedious. An animator sketches out each of the main poses of the characters, and then AI is used to fill in all the in-between movements of the character that could stem from each pose. An animator tweaks those poses before they’re finalized.\n\nA [demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t8xmBqUYQw&t=15s) of the new FlipMove pipeline shows a human-drawn sketch being quickly transformed into a 3D animation, with the AI tools importing the [Ozzy Fox](https://www.animaj.com/post/behind-ozzy-fox-how-artists-technology-and-audience-insights-came-together-to-create-a-new-preschool-series) house and characters onto the screen, and then also posing them to match the sketch.\n\nThe writers and animators involved still have their jobs, David Min, vice president of Disney Innovation, told me; they’re just making content a lot more quickly.\n\nAnimaj also recently published its [AI manifesto](https://www.animaj.com/ai-manifesto) online, calling slop, not AI, the enemy. [AI slop](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ai-slop-is-destroying-the-internet-these-are-the-people-fighting-to-save-it/) is [low-quality content](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/what-is-ai-slop-everything-to-know-about-the-terrible-content-taking-over-the-internet/) being rapidly generated by simple prompts using AI tools online. According to Animaj, collaborative AI tools should be put in the hands of storytellers, “because rejecting AI leaves more ground to those producing slop.” \n\n**Read more:** [The New Adobe Firefly AI Is All About Video Editing](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/new-adobe-firefly-ai-video-editing/)\n\nIts anti-slop message followed headlines upon the release of Ozzy Fox in July that [accused it of being AI slop](https://kotaku.com/disney-has-started-feeding-your-kids-ai-slop-2000717222), citing hallmarks such as unfinished backgrounds and the lack of letters and numbers on objects in the show.\n\nThe show wasn’t AI-generated; it was created and drawn by humans, with details filled in by AI tools and checked by more humans. But it raises the question: Is slop in the eye of the beholder? And [how much AI is enough to call it slop](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/darren-aronofsky-primordial-soup-on-this-day-1776-ai-slop-commentary/)?\n\nThe manifesto also argues that AI reduces the cost and speeds up the production of human-created animation, but that every hour saved should be poured back into that human work.\n\n“AI makes more ideas affordable to try: the strange character, the unfamiliar culture, the story nobody would have greenlit,” Animaj says. “We can put them in front of families, learn what moves them and go again.”", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/animaj-brings-ozzy-fox-series-to-disney-plus-as-it-charts-a-path-for-ai-in", "canonical_source": "https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/animaj-ozzy-fox-series-disney-plus-ai-agentic-animation/", "published_at": "2026-11-13 13:05:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-13 13:52:44.240818+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai", "ai-agents", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Animaj", "Ozzy Fox", "Disney Plus", "Disney Junior", "Sixte de Vauplane", "FlipMove", "Disney", "YouTube"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/animaj-brings-ozzy-fox-series-to-disney-plus-as-it-charts-a-path-for-ai-in", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/animaj-brings-ozzy-fox-series-to-disney-plus-as-it-charts-a-path-for-ai-in.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/animaj-brings-ozzy-fox-series-to-disney-plus-as-it-charts-a-path-for-ai-in.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/animaj-brings-ozzy-fox-series-to-disney-plus-as-it-charts-a-path-for-ai-in.jsonld"}}