# Animaj said its AI motion in-betweening method is already running in its production pipeline on the shows Pocoyo and Maya the Bee

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Date: 2026-05-05 · Stage: Deployment
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## Scope

Animaj's own blog, on its own domain and dated 5 May 2026, quoting Anton Raël, its Lead Deep Learning Research Scientist and a co-author of the underlying SIGGRAPH 2026 paper. It establishes that a data-driven in-betweening model, which generates the intermediate poses between animator-set block key poses, is integrated into Maya and Blender and is already running in Animaj's own production pipeline on two shows, Pocoyo and Maya the Bee. It is Animaj describing its own internal tool and its own production use while also promoting a result it submitted for peer review, so the account is one-sided; it gives no time-saved, shot-count or headcount figure, and says the animator still sets the key poses and remains in control. It does not establish use beyond these two shows, use at any other studio, or any change in headcount.

## Source

- Animaj — "Inside Animaj's SIGGRAPH 2026 Paper: A Conversation with Anton Raël on AI Motion In-Betweening" (5 May 2026) — https://www.animaj.com/post/inside-animajs-siggraph-2026-paper-anton-rael-on-ai-motion-in-betweening (primary source)

## What this means

A studio-built tool, not a research demo, is now doing part of in-betweening in real production: animators set the key poses and the model proposes the interpolations and breakdowns between them, inside the same Maya and Blender files animators already use.

## What it does not show yet

One studio, two shows, no numbers: Animaj does not say how much time this saves, how many shots use it, or whether any role or headcount changed. It is also Animaj promoting its own peer-reviewed result, so there is no outside check on how central the tool actually is to a given episode.

## How to verify it yourself

If you work with a 3D animation pipeline, ask whether your own studio's Maya or Blender setup has an AI in-betweening plugin available yet — Animaj's is open source, so it is one you could actually try, not just read about.


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