EXCLUSIVE: Producer Jordan Goldnadel has launched AiSpasia Studios, an AI animation firm based out of New York.
AiSpasia is being positioned as “pioneering the ethical and artist-driven use of artificial intelligence in animation.”
Goldnadel’s plan is to explore how AI tools can “creative possibilities while protecting artistic authorship, labor integrity, and human storytelling,” he said. He wants to use those tools “responsibly” and will “compensate human collaborators fairly.”
“The future of animation doesn’t belong to machines; it belongs to the artists who learn how to wield them,” said Goldnadel. “AiSpasia exists to make sure AI strengthens creative independence rather than undermines it.
AiSpasia’s first project is Léon in New York, which Goldnadel is billing as “among the first fully AI-animated series, which quietly debuted on YouTube and currently has nearly one million views.
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The series follows Léon, a French bulldog who moves from Paris to New York to chase his dream of making the best baguette in Brooklyn. Episodes are rolling out weekly.
“The question isn’t whether AI will exist in animation,” said Goldnadel. “It will. The next challenge is how we choose to use it. When production becomes more accessible, more stories can be made, and that ultimately creates more opportunities for artists. Our mission is to build models of production where human creativity remains central.”
Goldnadel is known for producing work on the likes of 2023 Cannes pic Riddle of Fire and 2017 Tribeca title Thirst Street.
Several AI animation companies have launched over recent years, with Deadline in 2025 revealing news of Jonathan Jarvis and Andrew Carr’s Cartwheel, which landed investment from the likes of Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo.