Sign up to get our news digest — delivered directly to your inbox twice a week. This week, animation and AI continued to collide in messier ways. Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull joined the jury of Higgsfield’s $1 million AI film festival, a move already drawing sharp reactions in our own comments section. Meanwhile, Ice Cream Man director Eli Roth walked back his claim that the film’s Fleischer-style animated sequences were hand-drawn, now admitting generative AI was used in a few scenes after credits surfaced listing an AI VFX firm. Several companies posted quarterly earnings this week, and Disney posted a strong Q3, padded by a $100 million tariff refund the company itself called “basically nothing” for the full year.