The video documents Jose's attempt to create a professional-quality animation without using any drawing skills, relying only on AI tools like MidJourney. This is part of a $300 wager with his friend Aditya, who believes quality animation requires artistic skills that AI cannot replicate. 

Jose is motivated in part by a belief that AI-enabled tools like MidJourney have the potential to democratize animation and allow anyone, even those without artistic skills, to create animations. He envisions positive impacts like helping kids at the Building Dreams Foundation in India tell their stories through animation.

Jose sets clear quality standards, aiming to match the aesthetics of the animated series Dungeons and Kittens. He uses various AI and stock media tools to generate backgrounds, characters, and other visual elements. To ensure the techniques are replicable by beginners, Jose's friend Selva undergoes a quick one day training to gain basic digital art skills, then successfully replicates Jose's integration process.  

However, when the final animation is reviewed by Jose's professional animator connections, it falls short. His mentor Howard declines to critique the visuals at all, instead focusing on the ethics of using AI to replace human animators. Jose's friend Julio determines it does not meet the quality bar set. Jose intends to keep working to improve his AI animation abilities, taking this failure as a lesson rather than a defeat.

I created a PRO Animation with Cartoon Animator 5 & Midjourney v6

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