"My intent was to showcase artists, both new and seasoned, both inside and outside the studios, driving this new tech," the director wrote on X. Jorge R. Gutierrez , the director of “The Book of Life” and an Emmy winner for several noted kids series, has dropped his plans to make an AI -generated animated series called “Punky Duck” for Amazon MGM Studios after backlash to his embrace of AI tools. Gutierrez appeared at the AI on the Lot conference in Los Angeles this week and announced that his