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ANDENT and Fuji TV Test Generative AI Workflows for Drama Production
ANDENT reports a maximum 70–80% reduction in work for some video-production steps using generative AI, compared with conventional methods. The company is working with Fuji TV on AI Sandbox, a project testing generative-AI workflows for tele
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ANDENT announced on Nov. 5, 2026, that it is working with Fuji TV on AI Sandbox, a project demonstrating generative-AI workflows for television drama production. The company’s AI development unit, stu, is working on live-action dramas including Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji. ANDENT’s AI supervisors and AI designers work with drama directors, producers and technical staff to test uses suited to each production’s creative aims.
AI Sandbox operates under Fuji TV’s AI Center
Fuji TV established its AI Center within the broadcaster’s Digital Strategy Office in July. The project is being advanced by Fuji TV Studio 1 (Drama and Film Production Center), its Tech Art Design Bureau and ANDENT unit stu. The teams test generative-AI uses in line with a production’s world and directorial intent.
In some video-production steps, using generative AI has reduced work by a maximum of 70–80% compared with conventional methods. ANDENT notes that the figure is not a reduction in the production cost of a whole work, nor an average across the whole production process. Fuji TV makes 16 terrestrial golden- and prime-time serial dramas a year, and the project is intended to establish workflows that support the creative intentions of those productions.
Planning starts before filming
During preparation, the project’s teams share scripts and the images they want to create before shooting begins. They then choose among live-action filming, visual effects, computer-generated imagery and generative AI according to the needs of a particular work or scene. The process can make images that were difficult to achieve under conventional shooting conditions more feasible and can make it possible to reduce the burden on production staff.
Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji uses AI in preparation and production
Fuji TV is using AI Sandbox on the currently airing Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji. Before filming, generative AI visualizes images imagined by the director, giving production and technical staff a shared view of the intended result. The team considers the shooting approach in advance and selects conventional image-making techniques, visual effects or generative AI with the work’s quality as its priority.
The production uses generative AI for detailed image processing in medical scenes and for depictions of accident sites that are difficult to realize through filming alone. Those examples sit within a process that also uses established production techniques, visual effects and computer-generated imagery. The selection of methods depends on the work and scene.
Fuji TV targets an AI-use system for dramas by around October 2027
From the October 2026 drama season, Fuji TV plans to designate at least one drama each quarter as an AI-enhanced slot and produce it through AI Sandbox. By around October 2027, the broadcaster plans to establish a system that allows AI to be used according to each work or scene in all the dramas it produces. ANDENT will serve as the project’s development partner, connecting creative work with technology as the workflow is tested.
ANDENT is also recruiting for four positions as it expands its video-production and technology-development business: business producer, project manager, VFX supervisor and 3DCG supervisor. The roles cover business development from conception through commercialization and monetization, oversight of large video projects, visual design and quality decisions for long-form productions, and supervision of expression and quality across anime and character projects. The company is seeking people to help connect creative work and technology and build its next production and business structures.