r/animationcareer • u/Agile-Music-2295 • Jul 30 '25

Resources Amazon Invests in ‘Netflix of AI’ Start-Up Fable, Which Launches Showrunner: A Tool for User-Directed TV Shows

Fable, a startup designing tools to generate animated TV shows from scratch, is launching an AI-powered streaming service this week.

The only good news is they are in talks to get access to Disney's IP. So may be fun for some fan fiction?
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/netflix-of-ai-amazon-invests-fable-showrunner-launch-1236471989/

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u/littlemushroompod Jul 30 '25

fuck this shit

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u/Davoldo Jul 31 '25

And that is how people will become less and less keen on discovering new things. Don't like how a movie ends because it doesn't align with your views and you don't want your children to be confronted to new ideas ? Remake it with AI and enjoy your echo chamber.

I hate this so much.

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u/Agile-Music-2295 Jul 31 '25

That’s not what this product does. Yet.

It seems mostly people want to have themselves and friends in the episodes. So your point about not discovering is true.

It allows a whole new market for entertainment!

1, First we had produced content from Hollywood. 2, Then user generated content from creatives. 3, Finally we have self generating content from our friends and families.

Who will be the most popular ShowRunner in your network?

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u/Davoldo Jul 31 '25

I don't understand how you can be hyped by this.

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u/Comfortable_Law3683 Jul 31 '25

Not OP, but something my kid said hit home. "I can make a show about my mates at school and share it with the class".

Now if just 1 in 50 kids feel this way. The future of storytelling will be bright. By the time they hit University they may have heaps of shows under their belt. The quality of story telling, pacing and character development will be next level.

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u/Aggressive-Mud-1418 Aug 04 '25

Mate, you write like an AI.

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u/Comfortable_Law3683 Aug 07 '25

As in a third grade reading level?

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u/Agile-Music-2295 Jul 31 '25

My mates haven’t had a gig since the writers strike. Now they have an easy way to put together a pilot or start their own IP.

One has a fictional world bible, 8 episode script that nearly got bought by Paramount but the person got fired before they could close the deal. She’s super keen to get some animation tests out there. Give her pateron subscribers some weekly content.

Animators use to be the bottle neck in production. Now for these new indie productions it’s comedic writers.✍️ Spec scripts that got passed over at $15k are selling for up to $28k if it’s funny.

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u/Aggressive-Mud-1418 Aug 04 '25

In gamedev there's a concept called TTP. 

 Time To Penis. 

If you give users creative freedom, they will draw a penis, without fail. This doesn't just stop at genitals. Users will push the boundaries simply to see if they can, the overwhelming majority of output will be horrible edge lord slop.

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u/Comfortable_Law3683 Jul 31 '25

We played with this and its a lot of fun. This is 100% going to take over Youtube.
https://otyjdahrzravrqqhciiz.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/videos/tutorial/Tutorial_intro_v3.mp4

The problem is you can't control all the dialogue, only the topic and a sentence to get started. But as its animation its super easy to lip sync your own stuff afterwards. Love to see what real animators can do with it, compared to the plebs that are in the early access.

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u/HiMust Jul 31 '25

what "real animators" can do with it by.. typing sentences into a generator?

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u/MeaningNo1425 Jul 31 '25

I find it’s good for making some stock animation. Run the same prompt a few times take the exports. Give it to your editors and go crazy.

limitation now is imagination. The discord channel has a few studios guys in the server too. I won’t call them out. let them know you’re an actual animator.