# ‘Triplets of Belleville’ Director Sylvain Chomet Fires Back at AI Accusations Over Dior Film Featuring Robert Pattinson’s Voice: ‘Everything Was Drawn by Hand’ (EXCLUSIVE)

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/triplets-of-belleville-director-sylvain-chomet-fires-back-at-ai-accusations-over-dior-film-featuring-robert-pattinsons-voice-everything-was-drawn-by-hand/
- Published: 2026-11-07T08:12:53+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T09:25:17+00:00
- Original publisher: Variety
- Original article: https://variety.com/2026/film/global/sylvain-chomet-denies-ai-accusations-dior-robert-pattinson-1236941945/
- Topics: AI, Entertainment, Europe, Film, Technology, World

## Key points

- Chomet says the Dior short was drawn by artists.
- About 20 people worked on the seven-month production.
- Automated interpolation helped create some in-between frames.

## Summary

Director Sylvain Chomet and producer Aton Soumache say their Dior short film was made with traditional 2D animation, after viewers accused it of using generative AI. The dispute matters because Dior presented the film as a tribute to craftsmanship, while online viewers cited visual oddities, including a six-fingered character, as signs of AI.

Soumache says the seven-month production involved about 20 people, including six animators, and that artists drew the characters, backgrounds and key poses. The team used automated interpolation for a small number of in-between frames, which Chomet describes as a way to handle repetitive work rather than create the artwork. The six-minute film features Robert Pattinson narrating a story inspired by Dior’s history and the shift from black-and-white cinema to Technicolor.

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