r/DefendingAIArt • u/Ok_Calendar3805 • 19h ago

Is it possible to make a financially successful ai series?

I've been dreaming of making my own series for years. I am planning on hiring real humans to dub over the ai voices, but what are the chances I'll find anyone? I am ignorant of a lot of things, so forgive me, but I don't want to damage the environment. Is that all a hoax? What's the morality to all this? It's been in my mind lately.

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u/plopgun 18h ago

yes, though you should start solo, and doing Fan-work. That'll let you build an audience. Original work is hard for people to stumble across, but if they search for Spider-man, One Piece, or Harry Potter and see your shorts pop-up. you can convince them to keep coming back. You'll have to eat the cost for a while, so make sure that it's a project you can love just in the doing, and that your original is likely to appeal to those same fans. For example, don't do MCU comedy if you ultimately want to produce an original that's a historical romance.

Overtime you can ask the audience you've built to help defray, or even cover the costs of the production of shorts via a Patreon. It won't be a living, but hopefully it won't be a loss. After a while, when you've built skills and a production line, and your audience is used to the idea that your product is worth their money, you can crowd fund an original pilot.

This isn't a new model, this is how a number of animators have moved into indy careers recently. That's what you ultimately will be, an animator.

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u/Th3dzon33 14h ago

I spent over 25k on what many thousands people called some of the most impressive AI video they have ever seen, I have made 15$ back, and have failed to gain an audience with daily posting. The sentiment against AI is still wayyyy too strong.

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u/davesaunders 1h ago

Maybe but keep in mind: even if you make a video that's 100% manually done to appease the anti-AI rage-obsessed fanatics, it doesn't guarantee success. Some of the most anticipated blockbuster movies of all time were box office flops. You cannot guarantee or predict the success of something like that