AI is making polished imagery easier than ever. Levi’s and E.L.F. are betting folks will notice when humans do the hard part instead. As a kid, I was fascinated by stop-motion animation. Something like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer seemed insane once you grasped how it was made. The 1964 special used handmade four-inch puppets across 22 miniature sets, with 24 painstaking frames required for every second of animation. That’s like, 1,440 individual photos for every single minute. Now Levi’s...