TVPaint Assures Users Of Its Animation Software That It Will Not Add Generative AI Features

As generative AI continues to be a contentious point in the animation industry, software developers are staking out positions on whether they intend to add artificial intelligence features into their animation programs.

TVPaint Développement, the French developer of the popular 2d software TVPaint Animation, which has been used on series like Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal and Common Side Effects, is the latest company to state its position, and it has said that it does not plan to add generative AI features to its software package. “TVPaint Animation was made as a traditional animation tool,” the company said in a statement posted on Linkedin. “As such, our goals will always be directed toward hand-drawn animation.”

TVPaint’s announcement comes just a few weeks after Toon Boom Animation introduced a suite of AI-powered tools to its programs Storyboard Pro and Harmony. TVPaint has become the the second animation software package since the Toon Boom news to explicitly tell its users that it has no current plans to add generative AI to its programs; Moho was the first software to do so.

Last year, the 2d software CelAction also pledged that if it ever adds AI tools to its program that the “AI will be trained ethically, either from material knowingly given by the original creators, or by the user of the product.”

Here is TVPaint’s full statement on AI:

TVPaint Animation was made as a traditional animation tool. As such, our goals will always be directed toward hand-drawn animation.

Improving our software is always done with artists in mind. We want to develop tools which make the animation process a smoother experience without going against creativity and your rights.

Without artists, TVPaint wouldn’t exist, this is why we don’t plan to integrate generative AI into our software.

Love and Animation,
XoXo.
The TVPaint Team