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AI Studio Arcana Labs to Produce Family Animated Feature ‘The Furry Wild West’ | Exclusive

Unlike other AI productions where the technology has been used in the writing and storyboarding process, it will only be applied to the animation stage The post AI Studio Arcana Labs to Produce Family Animated Feature ‘The Furry Wild West’ | Exclusive appeared first on TheWrap .

Arcana Labs, a studio known for their AI-generated sci-fi short film "Echo Hunter," is now venturing into a family-friendly animated project. They have acquired the rights to "The Furry Wild West," an action-comedy animated feature from Grammy-nominated musician and children's author Oren Lavie. This film is a kid-friendly take on the spaghetti Western, featuring a lion gunslinger and his canine sidekick.

In an interesting twist, Arcana Labs plans to use AI in the animation stage to add movement between static shots, preserving the human element in the creative process. This approach differs from fully AI-generated productions, which Hollywood has previously dismissed. The studio believes that AI assistance can significantly reduce costs, making it more feasible for projects to get greenlit.

Oren Lavie, the creator of "The Furry Wild West," expressed his excitement about reinventing the Wild West with a society of furry animals. Arcana Labs CEO Jonathan Yunger emphasized how this shift removes traditional gatekeepers, allowing more original scripts to come to fruition. "The Furry Wild West" is currently in the pre-production stage, with no distributor secured yet.

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