Mark began by generating a stylized samurai using ChatGPT. He then broke the image into parts—arms, legs, torso, and head. Each piece was cleaned and exported from Photoshop as individual PNG files.

In the run-up to the release of Sergio Pablos’s Klaus earlier this month, Sam Cabanac set himself a task. Every day for a month, Cabanac — who did character animation on the sneering ferryman Mogens — ...