Tinrocket, renowned creators of beloved applications like Waterlogue and Olli, have introduced a captivating new camera app named Cinemin, designed to capture animated photos and videos, all without relying on AI filters.
This innovative app, which is available for free, draws its creative inspiration from the world of traditional animated art and cinema to craft its enchanting filters. Users have the option to apply these filters in real-time while capturing their images or videos, providing an immediate glimpse of the artistic transformation. After taking a snapshot, users can further enhance their images using a range of editing features, including line cleanup, shadow adjustments, flatness enhancements, brightness control, tinting, adjustments for dark and light colors, temperature adjustments, and contrast tuning.
For video enthusiasts, Cinemin offers a full-screen cinema mode, allowing them to focus entirely on capturing their footage without any distracting elements.
Cinemin also presents users with in-app purchase options to unlock premium features. These include the ability to save unfiltered photos and videos for later editing and the option to export videos in 3K and 4K resolutions. Users can opt for a subscription model at $0.99 per month or $5.99 per year to access these features. Alternatively, there is a one-time purchase option available for $9.99.
John Balestrieri, the visionary founder of Tinrocket, brings his background in art and design to the forefront in this app. Cinemin primarily emphasizes the realm of 2D animation when capturing visuals, resulting in images and videos with a distinctive flat aesthetic.
Balestrieri explained his artistic approach, stating, “For the past 20+ years, I’ve used computer graphics to explore art and vision. Each of my apps (Percolator, Waterlogue, Cinemin, etc.) focuses on some visual or aesthetic principles grounded in the human visual system backed by hundreds of years of art tradition.”
In a landscape where numerous apps rely on generative AI to manipulate photos, Balestrieri takes a different path, citing concerns about the use of artists’ existing work for AI training data. He emphasized, “Generative AI is great if you don’t know what you’re doing—dump in a million pictures and have the computer ‘figure it out’—but figuring it out for myself is part of my art journey.”
Cinemin, with its dedication to preserving traditional artistic values and techniques, offers a refreshing alternative for users seeking to infuse their photos and videos with a touch of classic animated charm, all without the assistance of AI filters.
