There’s a new animated feature coming this summer, and if the just-released key art is any indication, Disney’s lawyers may want to pull up a chair.
India-based Digikore Studios has dropped the first trailer and poster for Kingdom Games, a 90-minute CG feature heading to theaters worldwide on July 24, 2026. It’s pitched as a four-quadrant family sports adventure: an underdog team of misfit animal athletes, led by a plucky bunny named Max, battling through wild obstacle courses to reach the finals of the legendary Kingdom Games. Think Wreck-It Ralph meets Wipeout, with fur.
What it also happens to look like: Zootopia.
You can see the poster for yourself right here.
The Judy Hopps of It All
Front and center on the poster, Max strikes a classic hero pose surrounded by his teammates — a capybara, a donkey, a bull, a jaguar. But standing just behind him is where things get strange.
She’s a smiling female rabbit. Gray fur. Huge violet eyes. Long ears with pink insides. A wide, open-mouthed grin. Anyone who’s seen Zootopia is going to do a double-take — because that’s Judy Hopps’ exact design spec.
For reference: Officer Judy Hopps, Disney’s first rabbit officer of the Zootopia Police Department, is a small gray-furred bunny with violet eyes, a pink nose, and long pink-lined ears. Her purple eye color was specifically chosen by the Zootopia team to pop against her gray fur and communicate her sunny, optimistic personality. It’s one of the most recognizable character palettes in modern animation.
The Kingdom Games rabbit hits every one of those signature traits.
It’s Not Just the Rabbit
Look again at the poster. Standing to the side is Ramses, the film’s “tough bull coach with a hidden soft side” — a large, gray-furred, horned bovine with a stern expression and an authority-figure presence.
That is also, almost exactly, the pitch for Chief Bogo.
Bogo, the Zootopia police chief voiced by Idris Elba, is a muscular, top-heavy cape buffalo with a blue-gray coat, beige upturned horns, and a perpetually unimpressed glare. Ramses isn’t styled as a police chief, but the silhouette, the color scheme, and the “gruff senior mentor with a soft center” framing all land in the same place.
One similar character on a poster is a coincidence. Two is a pattern.
The AI Elephant in the Room
Here’s where this story stops being a fun spot-the-difference and starts becoming something more fraught. Digikore has been very public about the fact that Kingdom Games was built on an AI-assisted production pipeline — with AI touching, per the studio, every stage of the film’s creation, from concept design and previsualization to asset generation, motion blocking, crowd simulation, and compositing.
Founder Abhishek More has been pitching the film as proof that AI has broken the traditional relationship between visual ambition and budget, freeing artists up to focus on “the soul of the characters” while machines handle the grunt work.
Which is great — except generative AI models are trained on existing imagery. And when characters produced through an AI-heavy pipeline show up looking uncannily like two of Disney’s most recognizable modern designs, the obvious question is the uncomfortable one: what was in the training set?
This is exactly the friction artists, studios, and IP holders have been sounding alarms about for the last few years. It’s one thing to be “inspired by” Zootopia. It’s another when the pipeline producing your film may have literally ingested frames of it.
But Is It Actually Illegal?
Copyright law, in theory, protects specific expressions of characters — not broad archetypes like “cartoon rabbit with big eyes” or “gruff bull boss.” To win an infringement claim, Disney would need to show that Kingdom Games copied distinctive, protectable elements of Judy Hopps and Chief Bogo rather than just overlapping on species and vibe.
That’s a real legal bar, and it’s not automatic. Anthropomorphic rabbits have been animation staples since Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Bulls have been stock villains and coaches forever.
But “broad traits” and what’s happening on this poster aren’t the same thing. Fur color, eye color, eye shape, ear design, facial structure, expression — all of it lining up, on two different characters from the same film, is a lot of coincidences to pile on top of each other.
And even if Disney never files so much as a cease-and-desist, there’s a perception problem that marketing can’t paper over. When the first reaction to your movie poster is “why is Judy Hopps on it,” you have a brand issue before your second trailer even drops.
About Kingdom Games
For the record, Digikore isn’t some fly-by-night outfit. The studio is 25 years old, listed on India’s National Stock Exchange, and has VFX credits on Stranger Things, The Marvels, Wakanda Forever, and the Deadpool, Thor, and Jumanji franchises. It’s a real, established company making a real play at a global theatrical release — the film is scheduled to roll out across the U.S., Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, India, and Latin America, followed by an OTT and satellite release in multiple languages.
Which in a way makes this worse, not better. This isn’t a zero-budget YouTube project getting sloppy. This is an NSE-listed VFX house betting a theatrical tentpole on an AI-driven workflow, and the first piece of marketing it’s put out into the world is already triggering copycat comparisons to one of the biggest animated franchises of the last decade.
Final Thought
Maybe it’s coincidence. Maybe it’s homage. Maybe it’s what happens when an AI-assisted pipeline, trained on a decade of Disney hits, is pointed at a family-friendly talking-animals brief and told to go.
Whatever it is, audiences have already decided. When the first thing people see on your poster is somebody else’s characters, that’s a problem — courtroom or no courtroom.
