Keyframer: Apple’s new AI-editor for generating animations with text input

Researchers at Apple have published a new paper detailing their prototype AI-powered animation tool named Keyframer. Apple said that Keyframer uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 model to generate animated illustrations from 2D images based on the user’s prompt. Additionally, it has multiple editing modes, allowing users to directly edit generated animations or explicitly prompt the AI tool to tweak the animation in a certain manner.

According to the research paper, Keyframer utilises Large Language Model’s (LLM) capability of generating codes and working on text prompts. Keyframer can take a Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) file, which is a 2D image format, as input and generate CSS code to animate the input image as per the user’s request.