Animini provides an AI‑native platform that generates keyframes and automates in‑betweening from reference images, storyboards, or style guides, preserving each studio’s visual style through custom style‑transfer models. The system integrates with Maya, Blender and other pipelines via APIs, plugins and cloud rendering, allowing film, animation and VFX studios to speed up production while retaining creative control.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Creating high-quality animation requires labor-intensive keyframe drawing, manual in‑betweening, and extensive effort to maintain a studio’s unique visual style across frames. These steps often cause bottlenecks, inflate production costs, and limit the ability to iterate quickly on storyboards or concept art.
Solution
Animini offers an AI‑native platform that automates the generation of fluid keyframes and smooth in‑betweens directly from reference images, storyboards, or style guides. The system learns each studio’s artistic language, applying style‑transfer models to preserve brush strokes, tone, and character consistency. Users upload visual references, the AI produces expressive keyframes, and then refines motion using optical‑flow‑based in‑betweening. The output can be integrated into existing pipelines via APIs, plugins, or cloud rendering, enabling studios to accelerate production cycles while retaining creative control.
Target Audience
The primary customers are film and animation studios, VFX houses, and marketing agencies that require fast, style‑consistent animation production at scale.
Features
- AI‑driven keyframe generation that converts character designs and storyboards into expressive frames with built‑in style transfer and dynamic posing
- Automated in‑betweening using optical flow and motion‑curve controls, supporting adjustable frame rates and volume preservation
- Custom style‑model training to replicate a studio’s brush‑stroke, tone, and guideline conventions across all generated frames
- API and plugin suite for seamless integration with Maya, Blender, or proprietary pipelines, including cloud‑rendered assets and custom workflow hooks
- Chrome extension that enhances prompt quality for external AI video tools, delivering cinematic results with a single click
- Real‑time preview and fine‑tuning interface for artists to edit keyframes, adjust motion curves, and approve final renders
- Enterprise‑grade security with encrypted data transfer, role‑based access, and compliance with industry standards