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Learn to dream with machines.
Classes and guides on frontier generative tools — video, image, and full production workflows — taught the way we use them on real productions. Some open to everyone, some in depth for members.
- I
Directing generative video
The working pipeline: script, shot list, takes and edit — how filmmakers get cinematic results out of AI video models.
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- II
Cinematic prompting & consistency
Style blocks, named entities and reference systems: how to keep characters, light and lenses from drifting between shots.
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- III
The Playground pipeline: script to a 60-second film
Our full production workflow, end to end: writing for generation, chaining 20-second parts, sound, grade and delivery.
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- IV
World-building systems for brands
Characters, places and mythologies that scale across formats — the method behind story universes that survive more than one campaign.
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- V
Post & finishing for generated footage
Edit, grade, grain and sound: the last 5% that makes generated shots sit together as one film instead of a clip reel.
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- VI
The tool map: what to use for what
A living map of the generative stack — video, image, audio, 3D — and the honest tradeoffs between the tools we actually use.
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