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Ascendance of a Bookworm anime studio acknowledges gen AI use in opening, promises to replace offending scenes with hand-drawn art (automaton-media.com)

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The fourth season of the Ascendance of a Bookworm anime, produced by WIT Studio, premiered on April 4 this year, though to an unexpectedly rocky start. The long-running series was faced with serious backlash after the reveal of the animated opening sequence, which viewers suspected featured AI-generated assets. In response to the criticism, WIT Studio posted an official announcemen t on April 10, in which it states that upon investigation into the opening’s production process, it confirmed that generative AI was involved. Consequently, the opening sequence recently published on YouTube has been removed from the platform. ……

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[–] Unboxious@ani.social 2 points 5 hours ago

Funny that it wound up being a tree. I often joke that they should let the animators outdoors more often so they know what plants look like. I've seen at least two anime now where trees growing on a slope are drawn growing perpendicular to that slope instead of parallel with earth's gravitational pull. It looks dumb as hell to anyone who's ever been in a forest before.

Sure one of those anime was an absolute joke anyways (Trails of Cold Steel) but the other one was Re:Zero!