In 2025, the global animation industry is experiencing the biggest revolution in its history thanks to AI animation.
From major studios in Hollywood and Japan to independent creators in Vietnam, AI is no longer just a supporting tool—it has become a true “virtual director,” “lead artist,” and “scriptwriter.”
In just the first months of 2025, countless viral short animation series on TikTok, YouTube, and Netflix were created entirely or mostly with AI—with costs reduced to 1/10 and production time accelerated dozens of times.
If 2023–2024 were the experimental phase, then 2025 is the year AI officially dominates the animation sector.
Major players like Disney, Pixar, Studio Ghibli, and Netflix have all announced AI integration into their production pipelines.
In Vietnam, small studios and content creators are producing 2D and 3D animated films with millions of views in just days instead of months.
This wave not only changes how animation is produced but also opens huge opportunities for anyone to become a true animator.
The old workflow used to take 2–5 years with hundreds of people:
• Storyboard → Character design → Layout → Animation → Rigging → Rendering → Post-production
Now, AI shortens the entire workflow to days or even hours:
• Generate storyboards directly from text descriptions
• 3D character design in just seconds
• Create smooth motion from real video or text prompts
• Automatic multilingual voiceover with preserved emotion
• 4K–8K rendering in hours instead of weeks
Result: A 10-episode animated series can be completed in 3–5 days instead of 3–5 years.
• Text-to-Animation & Image-to-Video: Simply type “a cat flying through a meteor shower in Ghibli style,” and AI instantly generates a complete animation.
• Smart AI Motion Capture: No expensive mocap suit needed—just film with a phone → AI converts it into smooth 3D motion.
• Consistent Character AI: Maintains character design across all angles, expressions, and outfits.
• AI In-betweening: Automatically draws thousands of in-between frames at professional quality.
• AI Voice Synthesis & Lip-sync: Natural, multilingual voices (including standard Northern/Southern Vietnamese), perfectly synced.
• AI Upscale & Style Transfer: Convert old animations to 4K–8K or switch between Pixar ↔ Ghibli ↔ Anime styles in just a few clicks.
• Reduce costs by 80–95%
• Accelerate production 20–50×
• Democratize creativity: anyone can become an animator
• More diverse content: millions of ideas can be realized
• Opportunities for Vietnamese creators: produce unique Vietnamese-style animation for global audiences
• Greener environment: drastically reduced energy consumption compared to traditional render farms
• Copyright and artistic style ownership: Some AI models still face debates about training data from artists without clear permission (improving significantly in 2025).
• Emotional depth: AI excels technically but can lack the emotional nuance that humans create. The best solution: human-in-the-loop.
• Inconsistent quality: Results depend heavily on prompts and platforms—wrong tools lead to poor output.
• Impact on traditional artist roles: Some positions shrink, but new jobs emerge:
AI prompt engineer, AI animation director, AI supervisor…
All major studios conclude:
AI doesn’t replace artists—AI empowers them to create more, imagine more, and focus on ideas instead of repetitive tasks.
In 2025, AI animation is no longer the future—it is the present.
This is a golden opportunity for creators, studios, and Vietnamese businesses to catch up with the world and produce high-quality animation at unprecedentedly low cost.
If you're dreaming of an animated film, short series, or unique animated advertisement—now is the perfect moment to make it real.
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