We produced an AI "live action" remake of the film Chimney Town using WonderCanvas with @nishinoakihiro! Our founder @CoryEnemy premiered it at the Short Shorts film festival @s_s_f_f award ceremony in Tokyo. The trailer will be release publicly soon!

Thank you to @WAIFF_Japan for hosting us! Our founder Coco Nitta presented Kamik.ai & WonderCanvas.ai along side Nozomu Takahashi (Ghibli producer) + Taiki Sakurai as they discussed the future of anime production. We were honored to be apart of the World AI Film Festival in Kyoto this year. Without question, this was the most prestigious & high-profile gathering around gen AI ever held in Japan. A room filled with leaders from the anime & entertainment, and a large press presence. It was exciting seeing so many respected figures in Japan openly supporting and publicly associating themselves with AI. This was a real inflection point. A legitimizing moment for AI storytelling in Japan. Many of the industry leaders and AI-native creators were present to discuss together the future and how to create in the age of AI. A packed auditorium and a clear message throughout the event: the industry needs to move forward and stop being afraid to talk about AI. We witnessed everyone in the room looking around, seeing their peers, and collectively giving themselves permission to acknowledge the future. It was inspiring to see the finalists at this year’s WAIFF festival bravely share the results of their hard work as they pioneer the next frontier of animation. No major studios submitted films this year, but many were in attendance. And they are clearly paying attention. This new generation of AI-native directors and next-gen studios is showing the industry what’s now possible and helping pave the way for the future of anime. Keep going. You’re changing the world. Hopefully next year we’ll see submissions from some of the larger studios as well. If we keep this up, the Japanese anime industry will continue to thrive and lead the world in animated content and storytelling!

No shaders. No textures. Just raw 3D pre-vis + a single reference image. WonderCanvas renders it however you want. Anime-style cel-shaded 3D will never be the same. Apply for private beta: WonderCanvas.ai

With WonderCanvas, you can refine and color hand-drawn storyboards and turn them into fully animated shots for your scenes. Apply for the private beta at WonderCanvas.ai

Fashion ads like this used to cost $150K+ to produce. WonderCanvas is the all-in-one professional creative studio for AI animation. Apply for the private beta at WonderCanvas.ai

WonderCanvas is an end-to-end animation platform built for serious creators and next-generation studios. Not for novelty. Not for memes. For creators who want to build real animated stories. It was developed inside the Japanese anime industry, alongside working animators, to function inside real production pipelines. Creative tools built by creatives, for creatives. From concept to final shot, everything lives inside one integrated system. Professional-grade animation. Cinematic quality. Full creative control. Our thesis is simple: AI should empower artists, not replace them. The future of 2D animation is not about automation replacing craft. It’s about making advanced AI controllable, reliable, and usable in real production. The tools are evolving. The standard is rising. WonderCanvas is where they meet.

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