We spoke with Cartoon Saloon's Eimhin McNamara, who was tasked with helping create these scenes, to find out how they did it and why they chose to lean into hand-drawn animation over 3D CGI.

Mark began by generating a stylized samurai using ChatGPT. He then broke the image into parts—arms, legs, torso, and head. Each piece was cleaned and exported from Photoshop as individual PNG files.

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A new piece of software just released from animation startup Midas Touch Interactive called Midas Creature is designed to add secondary animation to 2d characters – automatically. Midas Touch ...