The creation and publication of creation and release of art are never much easier than now. If you think that these companies establish technology around AI, the production process will become more effective. Video production is especially true. Companies of various sizes use large language models to build tools so that you can stir decent videos and animations through some prompts and operations.
Popular tools in this field include Google's veo 2, Openai's Sora, runway, Luma AI and Hailuo in Shanghai. Now, a South Korean startup named Cinamon is increasing efforts to seize part of this emerging market-Recently, it raised $ 8.5 million B series B round to continue to build its animation video generation platform "Cinev", the platform, the platform, the platform It is scheduled to launch the first half of 2025 in Beta. Existing supporters Altos Ventures and Saehan Venture Capital invested this round.
The tone of Cinamon is that its platform provides a video generator that allows you to build a 3D environment, direct scenes and movements, placing characters, editing camera angles, etc.-All these are text prompts and sliders.
According to its CEO DOOOSUN HONG, the company's method is fundamentally different from the existing AI video generator. The video creates videos by using text, images, and videos as reference materials. In contrast, CineV combines a 3D asset library, AI sports generation, and large language models made in movies to first build a 3D scene with characters and elements, and then let you use its video production and editing tool kit to edit to edit Essence
HONG said: "Our method can be more relaxed and edited without consistent/physical problems, making it particularly suitable for long formats such as movies and dramas." "We imagine that Cinev is an existing AI video tool In addition, a new workflow is likely to achieve, of which Cinev's output can be used as a high -quality reference material for other AI video platforms. "
Cinamon began to live in 2019 and is Cinamon Games, a subsidiary of the content production company Vonvon. Cinamon initially established a joint venture with the Korean digital story platform Naver Webtoon to create an interactive application application. Faced with the growing data privacy, Feng Feng merged with Cinamon Games later in the later 2019, focusing on storytelling stories in the field of social content.
Although Crazy Maple Studio (such as Crazy Maple Studio) began to provide animation interactive stories applications, novel applications, applications of storytelling, and short film videos, but Cinamon chose to focus on creating animation production that can speed up content creators and studios. 3D animation tools. Even if they spend more investment in the tools of 2D content, they have seen greater ejaculation potential.
In 2022, the startup began to build its 3D animation platform, and later integrated AI functions to improve production efficiency. In September of that year, Korean game company Krafton, Naver Z (unit of the Korean Internet giant Naver) and SNOW (camera applications operated by Naver) invested 10 million US dollars in Cinamon's series A.
Looking forward to the future, Cinamon plans to use its investors' IP and 3D assets to strengthen its products. KRAFTON has a large amount of intellectual property and 3D assets in its battlefield games, while Naver Z operates the Zepeto Metaverse platform. Cinamon said that Cinev can help expand these IPs to the game by using these IPs to use these IPs, and may push users of KRAFTON and Naver Z. Cinamon to obtain it. Essence
Hong said: "Our potential users include comics, comics, online station artists, online novel writers, game developers, video creators and traditional animators to seek easier work processes." "In 2025, we plan to focus on focusing on For customers (scope), from a single creator to content IP company, I hope to be easier, faster, and cheaper to create animation, vtuber and movie video games. "
Cinamon plans to use new capital to hire more AI engineers and R & D. The team of this startup is composed of 60 employees. It has professional knowledge in 3D graphics, AI, games and content production. The series B raised its total capital to $ 18.5 million (25 billion KRW) to date.