Its not just animation that has been pushed toward must look pretty to get noticed, just look at webcomics since webtoons became a thing. its a larger trend just made worse now that genAI is on the scene. It’s this idea that “pretty = good” and that’s bound to harm us all.

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‘Wildwood’ director Travis Knight on AI: “A pencil is a tool. A paintbrush is a tool. A 3D printer is a tool. A digital capture is a tool. AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself.”

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documentaries are not journalistic and even journalism does not strive to depict objective truth but to sort facts into a narrative

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the people who made hoop dreams paid for one of their subjects electric bills when it got shut off. there are little examples of this everywhere in the history of documentary production. once you put a frame around something, it changes.

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it's interesting that the documentary about the unknowability of objective truth has people for the first time questioning if documentaries depict objective truth

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