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Check out this deep dive with one of our mentors. We’ll break down a real workflow, explore what you can create, how the nodes work, what you can adjust, and what the outputs look like. No fluff. Just a straightforward, hands-on breakdown of how to make ComfyUI work for you.

Curious how custom ComfyUI workflows work?

Check out this deep dive with one of our mentors. We’ll break down a real workflow, explore what you can create, how the nodes work, what you can adjust, and what the outputs look like. No fluff. Just a straightforward, hands-on breakdown of how to make ComfyUI work for you.

Curious how custom workflows work?

Build a production ready AI pipeline for your industry across all areas — creative process, ethics, legal, text, image, video, sound.

Nejc Susec

Luka Tisler

AI for Creative Leaders

Director of IT Infrastructure

Go from zero to deployment: Install ComfyUI, build powerful AI workflows, and launch them as standalone apps.

Co-Founder of Lighthouse AI Academy

Master ComfyUI: Build, Automate & Scale AI Workflows

Creative Director

VFX Lead Artist at TK-FX

Senior Technical Supervisor 

Principal Data Visualization Designer

Product Designer

Teacher/producer/director

Our course is designed to train creative leaders to master AI tools and techniques - spanning across open source such as ComfyUI and commercial like Runway and ElevenLabs. Gain Industry-Leading Expertise in AIImagine becoming a creative leader who understands AI inside and out. Our course equips you with the knowledge and skills to apply ethical AI practices, legal insights, and cutting-edge tools, giving you the competitive edge to lead your team and industry. Hands-On PracticeBest way to learn is to do. We put a lot of emphasis on actual practical knowledge.Through the course you will work on a project, immediately testing and implementing the different tools and workflows we will cover. Group of Industry ExpertsOur course features a carefully curated group of industry leaders, each personally selected to ensure the highest quality of collaboration and learning.Participants come from diverse backgrounds - advertising, film production, commercial production, VFX, product design... By the end of this course, you'll not only understand the creative and technical sides of AI but also gain the leadership skills needed to guide your team through AI-driven innovation.Become the go-to expert in your field, ready to inspire and implement transformative AI solutions that will shape the future of your industry.

Lead Your Industry with AI Workflows → Become the Go-To Expert in 12 weeks.

Course syllabus

Once per week we will do a two and a half hour masterclass with hands on project work. Covering the topic of that week.

Masterclass Thursdays

An opportunity to review the challenges you have from the previous masterclass.You can submit question in advance and we will solve them in a live session.

Q&A Wednesdays

Along with the live sessions we will provide you with additional video explanations, pdf templates and comfy workflows.

Course Materials

Talk with mentors and members of the community in a carefully selected group of top-tier creative leaders.

Community Support

Course schedule

Creative Directors, Art Directors looking to advance their expertise with Generative AI.

Senior Creatives working in production, advertising, design, broadcasting, visual storytelling.

Innovators and Creative Technologists looking to unlock new frameworks and designs for their projects.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Gain a deep understanding of AI’s capabilities, limitations, and emerging trends. Learn how to navigate the evolving AI landscape to stay ahead of the curve, making informed decisions about how to integrate AI effectively into your creative work.

Understanding the AI landscape - capabilities, limitations and future trends.

We’ll explore in-depth text, image, and video workflows that you can use locally with AnythingLLM and ComfyUI. You’ll learn from existing workflows and create custom ones tailored to your specific needs.

Advanced AI workflows and techniques with open-source software like ComfyUI and AnythingLLM.

You’ll get access to selected tools and platforms we use throughout the course—from workflow editors to cloud deployment services. These tools will help you build, test, and deploy your workflows.

Get Access to Software Tools We Use

Develop a forward-thinking mindset that embraces AI as a creative partner, while understanding the ethical considerations that come with new technology.

Evolve your mindset, creative process and ethics around AI.

Learn how to apply AI tools and workflows directly to the unique challenges and opportunities in your industry.

Master AI for text, image, video, sound and apply them to real world use cases.

Gain the skills and confidence to effectively teach and guide your team or students, empowering them to harness the potential of AI in their own creative work.

Ability to pass on the learning to your team and students.

Immediately apply the knowledge with real life use case project work.

You will have a full finished project applicable to your creative field by the end of the course.

Be part of a carefully selected group of top-tier creative leaders, offering unparalleled opportunities for collaboration, growth, and networking.

You will be part of a hand picked community of creative experts and leaders.

This 12-week hands-on course will teach you how to set up, build, and optimize AI workflows in ComfyUI—from installation to advanced automation. You’ll learn how to install and run ComfyUI on Windows, Mac, and cloud environments, understand the core logic behind workflows, and apply AI tools to images and videos. The course covers everything from basic image generation to workflow automation, commercial AI applications, and technical optimization. You’ll gain a clear understanding of how nodes connect, why certain workflows work better than others, and how to scale AI processes efficiently. You’ll be guided by a team of 8 mentors, each bringing deep expertise from across the AI, creative, and tech industries. From foundational sessions with Nejc Sušec and Luka Tisler, to advanced technical deep dives with experts like Milan Kastenmueller and Mauricio Tonon, you’ll gain hands-on insight into real-world AI workflows. Maged Elbanna will walk you through structured ComfyUI techniques, Tarkan Sarim will teach model training and stylized control, and Douglas McGinness III will show how to integrate ComfyUI into production pipelines. Finally, Aman Sharma will cover how to turn your workflows into deployable tools using APIs. By the end, you’ll have the technical skills, hands-on experience, and projects to confidently deploy AI workflows for business, automation, and creative industries.

From Setup to Advanced AI Workflows

Once per week we will do a 2,5 hour masterclass with hands on project work. Covering the topic of that week.

An opportunity to review the challenges you have from the previous masterclass. You can submit question in advance and we will solve them in a live session.

Talk with mentors and members of the community in a carefully selected group of top-tier creative leaders.

Creative Technologists &amp; Developers who want to use AI to automate tasks, improve workflows, and stay ahead with advanced ComfyUI skills.

Marketing &amp; Business Strategists looking to automate content, boost branding, and scale business workflows using AI-powered tools.

Content Creators &amp; Visual Artists who want to create AI-generated images, videos, and 3D content to enhance their creative projects.

Learn how ComfyUI works from the ground up—understand nodes, connections, and the technical process behind building AI-powered workflows.

Master ComfyUI & Workflow Building

Develop AI-driven workflows for images and videos, automate processes, and optimize AI systems for efficiency and scalability.

Create Advanced AI Workflows

Turn your workflows into deployable applications, APIs, or web apps—making them accessible for clients, teams, or external users.

Deploy AI Workflows as Products

Use AI to streamline workflows, reduce manual effort, and build scalable backend solutions for automation and production.

Automate & Optimize Processes

Gain insights from top AI professionals, get mentorship, and collaborate with like-minded students in an interactive learning environment.

Learn from Industry Experts & Join a Community

You’ll get access to selected tools and platforms we use throughout the course—from workflow editors to cloud deployment services. These tools will help you build, test, and deploy your ComfyUI workflows.

Scale ComfyUI: A Live Demo of the Distributed GPU Extension

Robert Wojciechowski

Gen-AI Specialist / 3D Motion Designer

Visual AI Specialist for 20+ companies.

Learn the setup process for connecting local, remote, and cloud workers into a single, powerful generation network.

Set Up a Distributed Network

See how to transform any of your existing ComfyUI workflows into a distributed one to maximise throughput.

Distribute Any Workflow

Discover tips and tricks for optimizing your distributed setup and getting the most out of the tool.

Optimize for Peak Performance

AI as Your Co-Director: A Live Demo of CineMachine

Jeff Hipolito

AI Filmmaker & Pipeline Developer

AI Consultant to Hollywood, Coca-Cola.

See how the 'CineMachine' project is designed to act as an AI collaborator for independent filmmakers.

Explore an AI Filmmaking Suite

Learn about a unique system that integrates the styles of top cinematographers into AI prompt generation.

Integrate Cinematography Styles

Using AI for Storytelling and Filmmaking

Albert Bozesan

AI Filmmaker & Bestselling Writer

Discover how to use creative workflows while keeping storytelling at the center of your project.

Learn how to shape a story with AI tools

Learn a practical method to move from scattered ideas to a solid story with a beginning, middle, and end.

Turn creative ideas into clear story structure

Create Realistic AI Dialogues: A Live Multi-Talk Demo

Matthew Hallett

Global Architectural AI Pioneer. AI Model Creator. Problem Solver. Inventor.

We'll explore how to browse platforms like Hugging Face and what to look for in a free, local app.

Open-source TTS tools

We'll walk through a live example of a fast TTS app and talk about the key steps in its setup.

How a local TTS app works

We'll demo a simple workflow for a two-person chat and touch on the basic concepts, like masking.

Intro to AI chats in ComfyUI

Build AI-Generated B-Roll & Digital Characters in ComfyUI

Gabriel Henao

Global Creative Director @ Ubiquity

You'll learn how to build easy-to-edit AI pipelines that save time and keep things consistent.

Create simple, reusable ComfyUI workflows

We’ll walk through how to design characters with unique looks and personalities using AI tools.

Build digital characters for video content

You'll see how to create matching background visuals that adapt to each character's style and story.

Generate custom B-roll that fits each character

From Prompt to Production: Weavy’s Video Workflow

Learn how to combine prompt engineering and node-based logic to generate polished video workflows—without studio.

Build video workflows using Weavy

Learn how to guide the process from start to finish and tweak visual outputs to match your creative goals.

Understand and direct the AI video creation process

ComfyUI Demo: Product Model Training & 3D Dataset Control

Dario van Houwelingen

Evocative Product Imagery for Mobility & Tech Brands | 3D Rendering

Generate, clean and tag 3D renders so they become high-quality training fuel.

3D-Render Datasets

Leverage each asset’s virtual cameras to lock in angle and framing during image generation.

Camera-Aware Generation

Motorcycle → car → vegetation: how rising geometric complexity changes your training strategy.

Complexity Case-Study

Tech Tips

AI Video Generation with Wan + VACE

Learn to make the right decision for your projects, saving time and resources

When to train vs. use existing models

Build high-quality training datasets that produce consistent, compliant results

Dataset curation mastery

Follow our proven workflow to create models that match your creative vision

Step-by-step training process

Train Your Own AI Models from Scratch

Create Professional Videos in ComfyUI

Explore the creative freedom that comes with running video generation workflows locally.

What is possible with local video generation

Learn about the top-performing models compatible with ComfyUI, and discover how to integrate them into your projects.

Best models and workflows

Follow a clear, hands-on process for setting up ComfyUI, choosing the right parameters, and rendering your videos.

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