Thinking about the Firefly renewal discussed yesterday. Animation is mentioned as the intended medium. I have another idea.
How about feeding the 2002 images of the cast into an AI plus the scripts of the new episodes and have it create the imagery, with human oversight to catch and eliminate things like too many fingers or extra hands? Obviously pay the cast members for the use of their images, maybe even give them limited say-so (if desired) on what their characters are shown doing.
I have the feeling AI has reached the point where the above is doable, and production costs should be much less. The product should resemble the first season, not like a detailed set of drawings.
