Critterz' will be made using OpenAI's GPT-5 model and other image generation tools. It's expected to be debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

OpenAI is throwing its resources behind a mostly AI-generated animated film that was the brainchild of one of the company's employees. As first reported by the Wall Street Journal, the film will be called Critterz and will follow forest creatures who go on an adventure after their village is disrupted by a stranger.

According to the paper, using OpenAI’s resources, production companies Vertigo Films and Native Foreign will hire actors to voice characters created by feeding original drawings into generative AI software. The entire film is expected to cost less than $30 million and will only take about 30 people to complete.