Apple Has Created an Artificial Intelligence Image Animator
2024 could be the year of innovation in artificial intelligence from Apple. Firstly, all the rumors point to iOS 18 being an AI update; the company then publishes an open source AI image editor . Now, just a week after that news, Apple has released another AI app – this time a program that can create animation from a single still frame , called Keyframer.
In a paper introducing the software , Apple researchers argue that AI-powered animation is more complex for the end user than a standard AI-powered image generator. While the latter usually requires a simple prompt to create the AI, the former requires more factors such as timing and coordination, making the AI animator more complex than other generators.
But they seem to have found a solution: with Keyframer, the user simply needs to send a single 2D SVG (scalable vector graphics) image, and then with GPT-4 they can provide natural language hints to tell the program how to animate. Image. The application then generates animation code to animate the SVG. According to the article, Keyframer has several types of editors that allow users to make detailed changes to the animation. Users can also create animations based on each prompt, or create new animations based on previous prompts.
So, you can upload an image of a planet and then ask Keyframer to “create three designs where the sky shimmers in different colors.” Keyframer will not only process your animation requests, but will also show you the code created for it. So you can either tweak the code yourself to achieve the animation you want, or give Keyframer another request. And, because you can keep building on each result, you don’t have to think about the final animation: you could, but you might also get inspired by how the AI animates your image in a way you didn’t. expect.
Although there are no examples of the program working in motion, in the article you can see individual animation frames. In one, you can see a rocket moving up and down as the clouds compress and increase in size and the moon dips lower, creating the illusion of a rocket ship moving.
Unlike Apple’s AI image editor, which currently has a live demo on Hugging Face , Keyframer doesn’t appear to be publicly available yet. However, it will be interesting to see if and how the company implements this technology on its own platforms.