A lot has changed since I first met the team behind Animaj at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, in 2025. Since teasing an upcoming project with Disney a year ago, the AI-boosted animation studio has now produced Ozzy Fox, its first combined project with the animation powerhouse.
Debuting on YouTube and Disney Junior in July and launching on streaming service Disney Plus soon, the preschool-age show features bright colors, catchy songs and a cute family of foxes. It’s drawn and animated by humans, but with an AI assist to speed things up.
In the last year, AI has become a more normalized part of the creative process, popping up everywhere from music to movies. Studios don’t shy away from saying “AI” anymore; they’re using it to make content faster while — at least in some cases — still keeping humans in jobs.
Animaj recently released FlipMove, a “pipeline” combining all of the AI models it has been developing over the past few years into a single tool for its animators to use. The studio has also created an agentic AI workflow, Animaj CEO and co-founder Sixte de Vauplane told the media during the 2026 Disney Accelerator Demo Day.
So what does agentic AI mean for animation?
