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How It Works & Our Commitment to Privacy

TimelapsePhoto.art aims to be powerful, open, and to respect your data at the same time. This page outlines the technology at the core of our system and the methods we employ to keep you safe.

The Core Principle: Local Processing

Our Drawing Animation, Photo Slideshow, and AI Story Drawing tools work in such a way that your final video renders on your device.

When you pick an image or generate one, the heavy lifting—from analyzing the pixels, creating the animation path, to recording the video file—takes place within your browser's local sandbox. No video frames are ever uploaded to our servers.

The AI Story Drawing Pipeline

Our newest tool, AI Story Drawing, uses a sophisticated "Triple-AI" orchestration to deliver a full cinematic performance:

  • Visual Creation: Your prompt generates a high-quality base image using our integrated image engine.
  • Narrative Intelligence: An LLM (Large Language Model) analyzes your prompt to write an atmospheric script perfectly timed to your chosen duration.
  • Voice Synthesis: A professional Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine converts that script into a human-like narration.
  • Synchronized Execution: Finally, our local drawing engine calculates the exact points to draw so that the artist's performance matches the narrator's voice, ending precisely together.

What This Means For Your Privacy

This local-first method comes with a number of important privacy benefits:

  • We Can't See Your Local Files: Your uploaded or local generated frames stay with you. We don't have access to your private creative process.
  • No Account Needed: As we do not keep a copy of your creations or data, user accounts and tracking are unnecessary. You can use the AI Story Drawing Creator anonymously.
  • Safe for Sensitive Content: It is completely safe to animate or slideshow your photos without worrying about cloud storage risks.

Analytics and Advertising

In order to make our tools free, we rely on Google Analytics to find out how the website is used (e.g. which tools are most popular), and native advertisements to support development.

The data is non-personalized and aggregated, and it is also of great help in improving the service. Personal information is never shared with advertisers. You can refer to our full Privacy Policy for more information.