[avereveard]

I think there will be rapid advances and some of them are already happening in unrelated space, but it will be quite far from completely replacing the human in the loop.

especially challenging will be (as it is for self driving) context permanence.

that said, with 3d modelling, rendering etc eating up so much of modern animation costs as it is, it is quite likely that tech as ai art tailored upscalers will merge with technique as dlss to enhance permanence and will help make the cost crash back down to earth, and that will have a big impact as currently only "safer" films get greenlighted due the difficulties from recovering costs.