Disney Embraces AI It Once Fought, As It Prepares To Launch Ozzy Fox This December

In recent years, the entertainment industry has viewed artificial intelligence (AI) as a creative adversary. Studios and unions have clashed in court, with executives keeping their AI experiments hidden. However, Disney is now embracing AI, planning to launch a new animated preschool series called Ozzy Fox this December. Ozzy Fox was developed using agentic animation tools just months after Disney rejected the use of AI in its creative process.

Why Disney is Utilizing AI Disney discovered that fighting AI does not deter low-quality channels from flooding children's viewing with AI-generated content. To address this issue, Disney decided to employ AI, but with human artists directing the process, to create engaging content for children. Ozzy Fox comes from Animaj, an animation studio that recently joined the Disney Accelerator program in 2025.

The musical series follows a family of foxes on musical adventures and was tested on Disney Jr. and video streaming sites in July, where it garnered hundreds of thousands of views within days. Here's how Disney's new Ozzy Fox series stands apart from other AI-generated content. Unlike raw prompt-to-video generators, Ozzy Fox is created entirely by human artists.

Animaj's exclusive FlipMove pipeline is used to streamline the process. This pipeline relies on agentic AI, which reads the director's storyboard notes, selects the appropriate model in-house for the movement between sketches, and allows artists to manually review each individual frame before Ozzy Fox is released. By using these AI tools within a closely controlled environment, Animaj reduces the production time for episodes.

Animaj's success can be attributed to VC support, as the studio raised $85M to scale its artist-first production platform. This new funding will help Animaj create an even more efficient production process and further reduce the time needed to bring animation shows to viewers.