Multimedia, Animation & VFX / GL-MM-07
AI Video Creator — Prompt to Publish
Ship a commercial-grade video every week, from prompt to publish
- Duration
- 12 weeks · 3 phases
- Weekly effort
- 8–10 hrs/week
- Delivery
- Classroom · Online · Hybrid
- Batches
- Morning · Afternoon · Evening · Weekend
- Who can join
- Beginners with a laptop and internet. No prior editing experience required.
You graduate with
- Twelve published videos
- A professional demo reel
- A public portfolio channel
About this program
Ship a public, shareable video every single week for twelve weeks. Generate with Runway, Kling and Veo; then fix and finish in After Effects — the rescue kit for everything AI gets wrong (warped hands, flicker, mismatched color between shots). The loop, twelve times: Generate → Diagnose → Fix → Publish. Closes with three client-style briefs and a professionally cut demo reel. Honest promise: commercial-grade short video in 12 weeks — not film-VFX employment, which no 12-week course can deliver.
Curriculum
The journey, term by term
Every module ends in finished work. Expand any module to see what you learn and what you build.
Term 1
Phase 1 — Generate
Weeks 1–3
You learnAccounts and setup for Runway, Kling and Veo. Anatomy of a video prompt: subject, action, camera, lighting, style. Text-to-video vs image-to-video. Set up your public portfolio channel (Instagram or YouTube).
You create“My First AI Film” — 10 clips generated, the best 3 selected, published as a 15-second montage.
You learnShot language — wide/medium/close, camera moves (dolly, pan, orbit). Reference-image workflows for character and style consistency. Model-selection judgment: Kling for motion realism, Veo for cinematic coherence and physics, Runway for control (camera control, inpainting, expand).
You createA 3-shot sequence that cuts together as one scene.
You learnBeat structure for short-form: hook, build, payoff. Storyboarding with AI image tools before generating. Sound: royalty-free music and basic sync. Assembly in CapCut/Premiere as the bridge tool before After Effects.
You createA 30-second story with sound.
Term exitThree published pieces already — you can generate, direct the AI, and tell a 30-second story with sound.
Term 2
Phase 2 — Fix & Finish
Weeks 4–8
You learnDiagnosing AI artifacts: flicker, morphing, dead frames, drift. After Effects from zero — interface, compositions, layers, keyframes — taught by fixing pacing and trimming dead frames from your own Week 1–3 footage.
You createA re-cut, re-timed version of an earlier piece — visibly better.
You learnMasks and rotoscoping (Roto Brush) to cut out warped objects and artifacts. Content-aware fill for video. Cloning and patching.
You createA before/after split-screen showing an AI flaw removed.
You learnMotion tracking — attaching text, logos and graphics to AI-generated footage. Typography animation basics. Lower thirds, captions and brand elements.
You createA product-style ad with tracked branding on AI footage.
You learnColor correction and grading with Lumetri — the single biggest upgrade for AI footage, where every generated shot has a different color personality. LUTs, shot-matching and mood grading.
You createA 3-shot sequence graded to look like one production.
You learnShape layers, animated titles, transitions and survival-level expressions (wiggle, loop). Intro/outro packages.
You createA fully branded 30-second piece — AI footage, cleaned, tracked, graded and titled.
Term exitAfter Effects as the rescue kit: re-time, roto out artifacts, track branding, grade shots to match, and finish a fully branded piece.
Term 3
Phase 3 — Integrate
Weeks 9–11
You learnA written client brief with specs and a deadline. The full pipeline: prompt plan → generation → After Effects finish → delivery formats (9:16, 1:1, 16:9).
You createA 30-second local-business ad, delivered in all three aspect ratios.
You learnE-commerce product video from product photos alone (image-to-video). Consistency techniques, tracked callouts, and price/CTA cards.
You createA product reel from photos alone.
You learnYour choice — music visual, short film, or title sequence. The portfolio centerpiece, worked over two crit passes instead of one.
You createThe centerpiece piece, plus a written breakdown post of how it was made.
Term exitThree client-style deliveries — a local-business ad in every aspect ratio, a product reel, and a portfolio centerpiece with a written breakdown.
Term 4
Portfolio & the Road Ahead
Week 12
You learnDemo-reel assembly: the best 60–90 seconds of the term, professionally cut. A live Nuke exposure session — node-based compositing, one simple comp, and an honest picture of the VFX-industry path (no 12-week Nuke employability promised). Freelance starter kit: pricing short-form work, writing proposals, and where the clients are.
You createA final demo reel and an updated public portfolio channel.
Term exitA professional demo reel, a twelve-piece public portfolio, an honest map of the Nuke/VFX path, and a freelance starter kit.
Stacks toward the flagship
Any shorter program’s fee is adjusted toward the flagship within 6 months.