Ice Cream Man AI: Eli Roth Confirms Generative AI Help in Animation

Eli Roth has confirmed that generative AI was used in Ice Cream Man, including a handful of animated sequences that he initially described as part of a traditional hand-drawn process. Dark Half is credited for AI work, and Roth later told Polygon that AI was used in a very small portion of a few scenes, emphasizing that technology and creativity helped realize his vision without detailing which sequences were AI-generated or how they were combined with human animation.