I will make a few speculations: 1) ML algorithms will be able to adjust stock art to have a common look. Think MM fonts on steroids. 2) Common themes will dev

I will make a few speculations: 1) ML algorithms will be able to adjust stock art to have a common look. Think MM fonts on steroids. 2) Common themes will develop in stock art libraries. In other words, I'll be able to pick a world, have a wide array of objects, and it will all fit together pretty well. Will this be as good as a Hollywood-budget animation? Almost certainly not. Will this be good enough, given good plot and writing? I suspect so. Will we see fifty different movies with the same-looking characters playing different roles? Almost certainly. It will be almost like having the same actor play Tarzan AND the Terminator AND a police officer. Will we see animation well behind the state-of-the-art? Almost certainly. On the other hand, I'm perfectly okay watching cartoons from 50 years ago, and I think we can do much, much better. I think the major problem right now is that to do a movie, you had to be competent at plot/writing, animation, distribution, voice acting, etc. That took a movie studio. Digital platforms are already taking over distribution. Now, a group of five friends can make a high-impact video. As other parts of the channel get subsumed by advances in technology, eventually it will be down to one person in a room with a good idea. That will be transformative.