AI Visual Content Creation 101

By the end of this module, you will be able to create effective prompts for the specific style and image you prefer.

1. Course introduction and overview
2. Crafting creative and specific prompts
3. Examples of effective prompts
4. Tips for writing strong text prompts
5. Find inspiration for images and prompts
6. Start small and build prompts and styles

Hands-on activity: Creating your first AI-generated visual content (Choose 3 different styles to generate images of the same subject)

Style guides and prompt-generating tools are helpful with visual examples, keywords, and structuring prompts for efficiency.

GPT tools are helpful for AI-generated content for several reasons, including:

• Generating ideas through brainstorming, prompt inspiration & generation
• Researching subjects, styles, and techniques
• Expanding and building prompts to add more details, emotion, and background
• Developing character descriptions & storylines
• Color charts, palettes, and themes

We'll discuss several GPT tools for visual content creation, including:

• ChatGPT
• Bing Chat
• Google's Bard
• Perplexity AI

There are several Bonus Resource Videos included in this module.

They are meant to be used throughout the course and afterward for your reference. You can watch at your convenience and use the tools if you find them helpful.

By the end of this module, you will know how to utilize reference sources for ideas and examples of styles. You will feel confident leveraging GPT tools to fine-tune and expand your results.

Explore generative AI tools for making text-to-video, image-to-video, and text-to-3D effects.

Video Animation:

• Kaiber AI
• Imagine
• Genmo
• Runway ML Gen-1 & Gen-2
• Plazmapunk
• Pika

3D & 360° Effects:

• LeiaPix Converter
• Blockade Skybox
• ilumine AI

Animation Effects (motion, 2D to 3D, Video Inpainting)

• MotionLeap
• PhotoLeap
• Looking Glass

AI Audio:

• Tracksy
• Music LM
• Mubert
• Boomy
• Pixabay

Editing & Special Effects:

• Canva
• CapCut
• Runway ML
• Wondershare
• Adobe Express

By the end of this module, you will know several commonly used tools for animation effects, including text and image animation/transitions. You will know how to add credits or attribution for music downloads and how to create unique music or sounds with AI tools.

You will know how to add overlays and filters for quick special effects or style changes. You will understand several ways to transform a still image into a partially or fully animated visual.

You can create consistent characters and scenes by using different methods, such as:

• Zoom Out
• Multi prompts
• Style transfers
• Changing scenes
• Reference images
• Variations/remixing
• Inpainting & Generative Fill

We'll discuss how to use contact and character concept sheets to maintain the appearance of your intended character or scene efficiently.

By the end of this module, you will understand how to use different methods to create characters you can reproduce.

In our Final Live Session, we'll have a quick review of the topics we covered during the cohort.

We'll discuss editing and post-processing tools, along with animation effects.

There are several Bonus videos and documents for your reference, and you will have lifetime access to all course materials available in the Syllabus after the course is completed.

Finally, we'll present the final projects and discuss your process, lessons learned, and experience.

By the end of this course, you will use the tools and techniques learned throughout the course to present your final animated project.