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Headshot of Becca Vodnoy, senior vice president of Corporate Alliances at The Walt Disney Company, smiling against a light gray background

Disney named Adobe its Official AI Innovation Partner and will get private Firefly Foundry models trained on its characters, environments and styles. The parks tool was announced in June, Disney's quote came from its brand partnerships chief, and no value, term or film title was disclosed.

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China's regulator backs live-action microdramas and reins in AI ones
China's regulator backs live-action microdramas and tells AI series to hold their numbers steady

China's broadcast regulator restated on Nov 5 that it will fund and promote live-action microdramas, require human review of everything that airs and crack down on unlicensed faces and voices in AI series. No new written rules or dates came with it.

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Chomet says his Dior film was drawn by hand, with software filling some frames
Sylvain Chomet says his Dior film was drawn by hand, but software made some of its frames

Dior sold Chomet's short as all drawn by hand; his producer now says an automated tool made some in between frames. Neither has named the software or said how many frames it touched.

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Nolan says The Odyssey's credits forbid AI training
Nolan says The Odyssey's credits forbid AI training, but only Universal can enforce the line

Christopher Nolan says The Odyssey's end credits state the film cannot be used to train AI, and called it a first. Universal has used a similar warning since June 2025, and as he says, only the studio that owns the copyright can enforce it.

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Creators & AI Talent

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Microdrama studios say the first 30 seconds decide a vertical series, not the shoot

Bump and İki Dakika told TCCF that hooks and villains hold a vertical feed, not production budgets. Both shoot live action, every quote comes from one session report, and Bump's scale figures are its own.

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trungbep's Father and Daughter finds the warmth in a giant dad and a tiny girl

Episode 2 of an AI animated series by trungbep follows a giant, gentle dad and a tiny daughter through one sunlit day. Seedance 2.5 on CapCut is the only tool the post names.

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A part-time crew made China's top AI drama, and every layer of it belongs to ByteDance

Into the Song has run ten 100-episode seasons on Hongguo since August. The viral debt story is wrong, the play counts belong to different counters, and the money figures are the team's own word.

Microdrama studios say the hook, not the shoot, keeps a vertical series alive