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1. Trailer Introduction: Hi, I'm Arnold. I'm
a creative first, and I know exactly what it feels like when new tools
like AI show up, I've been there,
questioning if the skills I built over years
would even matter. And the good news is yes. When it comes to creativity, AI has actually opened doors that I didn't
know existed before. Now, why should do
you believe me? Well, I've spent over a decade working in media marketing. I've been in the trenches
for over the last ten years, designing, filming, photographing,
every aspect of it. And I also run a chunky Cat page on Instagram that's reached
over 40 million views, and 40,000 fans later,
I have AI to thank. Now have more ways than ever to bring ideas to life
on a higher level. And what I found is that AI
doesn't replace creativity. It expands it because
it's not going to generate creativity if
it isn't already there. That's within you and
that's unique to yourself. It's a tool that
multiplies ideas, help you move faster and bring your vision to life in ways
that weren't possible before. When you use it right, AI
doesn't take away your voice. It amplifies it. In this class, we're going to cover your
mindset when using AI. And to be creative with AI and practices to unlock even
deeper creative thinking. And if you want to dive deeper into any of the
tools that I use, I have a full catalog of classes where I dive
into them in depth. The only thing that you need
before we get started is an open mind because you
are still the artist. We're just going to sharpen
how you stay irreplaceable in this ever changing
fast moving world of AI. Let's jump in.
2. AI Foundations: So let's start by talking
about the foundations of why you as a creator
or a creative, your work still matters
even in the age of AI. And as we dive deeper
into this lesson, you're going to figure out and understand exactly why that is. And it's because you as a
creator is responsible for coming up with the concept,
which is irreplaceable. If you consider, for example, directors like Wes Anderson, his style of color, his set design, his
costume design, his story design, all of that
cannot be replaced by AI. AI could possibly help him brainstorm his ideas, but
it won't replace him. For example, if he's
trying to think of a scene in a certain place, he might go into AI
and ask, like, Hey, what are some possible locations for me to tell this story? Now, that's the use
of AI as a tool, and it's not AI
as something that replaces him because the
vision is still his. So in this lesson, I want to
solidify the fact that AI is used as something
that can amplify your vision and what
you have in your mind. And whether it's a small idea or it's a already
halfway formed idea, you could bring it
to life and bring it to something much
more than it is now. So the actual practice that
I want you to have through this whole class is how
to think bigger and further using the AI
tools that are available. Now, I also give you
another example. There's a common argument that AIR is solace and is taking
away jobs from creators. And besides the fact that AIR is not close to being there yet, I use AI in a lot of my work, and I have to go back
and fix a lot of stuff. The fact is, if you have an
idea or a concept using AI, you can turn that into
a cartoon, a comic, an animation, a short film, a comic strip, all
kinds of things. And the only limitation
is your knowledge of what AI tools are out there and your knowledge of
what you can do.
3. Project: So the project for this class
with access to AI being so much more easy now and the
democratization of creativity, we as creatives, have the opportunity to take
our ideas further. And that's the whole
point of this class. If your work can be
replaced with something AI can generate in a
few clicks or a prompt, then you're going to
have a tough time as the world develops in AI. But your advantage as a creative is that you
can create more. You're the person blessed with the art of creativity
of knowing how to think in a way that normal people that aren't
creative don't have. So we're going to
hone in on that. As we go through the
lessons in this class, we'll discuss processes and
ways to think about AI tools. Your project is to
have a piece of media that is plus one with AI. Meaning this could be something like an AI image
that you generated, and then you add
something extra onto it, maybe a funny
caption or words or a slogan or an AI generated
poem on top of a photo, and maybe that photo
is something that is really hard to
recreate in real life. Like, for example, chunky
cats doing very human things. Another example
could be a video of you as an AI character
doing something crazy. Point is with AI, we can do something that we
couldn't do before, and that is the plus
one to your idea. Now, if you can't
think of an idea, an easy one is
animating an image, which you can do by using one of the photos to videos AI tool. But essentially, the project for this class is to
generate a piece of something and have a
plus one to it using AI.
4. AI As the Collaborator : Now let's talk about the creative shift
that is happening. AI is your new collaborator. Everybody uses AI these days. It's undeniable, whether it's for setting up your tools or understanding a certain concept or writing down, reflecting. There's so many
different uses of AI, and the best way to
practice AI is to actually use it on a daily
basis on what you're doing. So again, the goal is, how can you do more and
produce more using AI? And shift this creative shift is to think beyond what
you're able to do now, because when it
comes down to it, your limitation is
time and energy. For example, if I
were to edit a video, which I was doing in 2020 every day on TikTok when
my channel was blowing up, I was making three videos a
day. I was playing it out. I was scripting it. I
was editing that script. I was filming it,
I was editing it, and then I was
putting Brown to it, and then I had to do
all the marketing, which is like captions, the right hash tags,
and then publish it. That takes a lot of time.
That takes a lot of energy. And so with AI now, you're able to cut all
the gaps in between. So, for example,
if I'm stuttering, if I said a word that
I shouldn't have, AI will cut the gap.
And when it cuts the I have more time to
do other things. Now I can come up with a Bro. Maybe I'm generating
images using AI. And all of these images
are a certain theme, a certain style that fits. Because back then, I was
just pulling Google images. Google images aren't
that good looking. But if I put AI images based on a certain style,
like, for example, right now, Studio Jubilee style
is really popping off on Open AI at the
time of this recording. If I had that
style, for example, in the whole Bro
for entire video, that is relevant
towards that video. It keeps the same format, and it has this vibe that's carried on through
the whole video. Now I could do that
if there was AI. Back then, I couldn't do that because I had to
spend the whole day editing and manually writing
down all the captions, which now AI can do in seconds. So back then, I used to spend hours editing all these captions,
literally typing it out. And at that time, Premiere had just launched this
new caption feature, so it helps a little bit, but it wasn't all
the way there yet. And so your practice here is understanding
your limitations, what you're doing as a whole
process and breaking down individual parts of that process and what could be used with AI. So like I just mentioned, when I was making these videos, certain parts such as part of the editing and parts of the image generation
for the Bro, could now be done with AI, and that improves the quality
of my videos greatly. So for you, consider what
parts could be systemized.
5. Common Misconceptions: So this section, we're going to talk about some misconceptions about AI because a lot of creatives come to me
and they're like, Hey, AI is going
to replace my job. AI is going to do this and that. But AI is really just one part of your entire creative toolkit. And the big one that comes to me is the question that everybody asks and brings up is AI is going to replace
my job as a creative. But the reality of that
is it really is not. We've already seen AI come out and AI can generate images. But the thing that
people really pay for is the execution and the
idea behind something. Anyone can just go and
generate an image. Those images might not have the same impact as if
somebody who had put thought, connection, and history into something that they're making. For example, if we go and
reference a film director, the Hao Miyazaki and
studio Gibi stuff, anyone can generate
that art style, but that art is not
going to reflect the heritage that came from
an actual studio Jiblyi film. That studio jib foam has
a lot going on for it. There's certain
individual movements that the characters are doing. There's certain color ways
that fit with the background. The background may be based on a certain historic time period. What's there in the background, maybe there is a sign
that's there that's designed based on a certain
time period as well, certain fonts that are used in a certain time period,
people's hairstyles, clothes, a lot of intricate details that can't
just be replicated on AI. And these are things that are so infinitesimally complex that you would have to be a
very skilled director or artist or creator to be able to think of
this and to do it. And if you're able
to think of that and quantify these things into your design pieces or
whatever you're trying to create and you use AI, then you're most
likely going to be able to bring this more to life. For example, I had a
friend who was a director, and he's also getting a
lot of investments from different people who want to produce movies
and films with them. And a good way for him to
pitch his ideas was to use these AI image generators
to generate this storyline, this timeline, and then
he would pitch it because now there is a visual behind
what he wants to pitch. And because he has
this visual, this different element now than
just what he had back then, which was just text or just
certain images and just, you know, halfway
put together stuff. Now he has a full experience
that he can show people. And if you're falling
along with AI, you can even see some of
these AI video creations have gotten so good. But still, of course,
it's not going to replace a very talented filmmaker,
editor, a colorist. None of that is going
to be replaced because that talent takes years and
years and years to develop. And, like, knowing how
to shoot certain things, how to light certain things, how to color certain things, how to have that
color fit the vibe of something is extremely
complicated that somebody that just
knows how to prompt that AI is not going
to be able to replace. Another argument
that I hear a lot is that with all this
AI coming out, it's going to flood the market, and it's hard to stand out in a flooded market because
there's so much competition. But this is where I say,
and I want to share some inspiration in that
this is where as a creative, you have to push forward and
make your work even better. And the truth is,
if somebody is able to generate what
you can do with AI, then your work needs
to be improved. Or learn how to use AI and
then generate layers on top of Say, for example, you are somebody that is a
graphic designer. Maybe you can hit certain vibes correctly where AI can't hit. But then now AI is able to generate that vibe pretty
close to what you can do. But if you're talented enough, you'll know that there
are certain intricacies like maybe there
should be curves here, so the lighting should
be a certain way on this type of logo or this type of image
that you're making. This is where your
talent stands out. And so we even see
this with AI flooding the market of social media right now because when
AI first came out, it used to just be images. Random, like, videos or
just people moving around. Maybe that Will Smith eating spaghetti from years
ago was really popular. But then as AI has evolved now, the creative scene
has moved from just images to maybe
having those images, tying it together
with a meme so that there's cultural relevancy and then maybe animating that and then have a whole
story told behind that. So there's many different
layers behind it, and that makes it a lot
more complicated to copy. In fact, you can't copy that because that's a certain
style that somebody has, that's a certain type of
thinking that somebody has. And they've honed
their craft to be so good at thinking about
those types of things. A good way to think about this is when you're watching a movie, for example, there's a lot of sounds that go on
in the background. You might not even notice it, but it's so subtle sometimes. Like a clip might have a train
pass by, and there's this beeping sound or as you're
walking through a trail, like, there's, like,
footstep sounds. Like, all of these contribute
to how a scene is built up. And then as AI is
flooding the market with a lot of these
AI slot videos, they're going to be missing
a lot of these elements because these people
are just AI people. They're not creatives. So as a creative,
your job is to think about how can I elevate
my creativeness, like my creativity with AI so that I have all the
competition under control, and then how do I put my
own creative spin into it? How can I use my
unique talents and bring this and elevate
it to the next level? With AI being so
rampant these days, authenticity and vision is actually what's
going to stand out. And so I think as
social media goes on, we're going to see this shift of a lot of just junk AI stuff, move to a lot of valuable stuff because people are going
to start realizing, Oh, okay, this is just another AI generic
piece of content, whereas I can watch something
that somebody actually put effort in thought about it
and made this work of art, which has a lot more
value than just AI slop. So to conclude, think
of it as inspiration. Your job as a creative
and as an artist is to make something that
AI cannot replicate. And if AI can replicate
what you can do, think about how you can improve your craft so that
what you put out is significantly better
than AI and that no AI person or any AI
tool can copy what you do. If I use AI, I'm
not a real artist. It's a big misconception
that I hear pop up a lot. And this actually goes back to, since I'm older creative now, it goes back to the
time of digital and how digital just came on the scene and old
film photographers. At that time, there was that
whole conflict of, Hey, these digital people are not actual real photographers who are going into the dark room, processing their own film. They're just hobbyists because we are the real
photographers that are making our own photos and
putting this real art out. And that eventually shifted
towards around the 2010, where people were having
a lot more access to digital videography
and cameras and whatnot. And at that time, it was more
accessible to get a camera. And then that started this
whole thing of, like, now people are able to
build tools to color grade or to have templates or to
have effects on your videos. So there was this whole thing, too, where people are like, Hey, there's these people
who are using presets to generate colors for their
photos and their videos, like using lots and
light room presets. And these aren't
the real creators because we're out you're
manually doing it ourselves. These people are
just using presets. And then if you
think about it now, most people use presets, right? But back at that time, there was a bit of, like,
conflict between, like, a real creative and
a fake creative, because if you're
using templates, it's kind of seen as, Oh, you're not really
a real creative. You're not a real artist because
you're using a template. But my argument to that was that if you're
using a template, you're using that as a tool
to create a certain vibe. Maybe I'm not shooting
on Super eight film. There's also that group, too. Like, there's a lot
of these different niches of people who are like, We're real famed filmmakers because we're shooting
on Super eight film, whereas you're just a hobbyist
filmmaker. But for me, when I use these effects,
I was thinking, Okay, if I wanted to create an effect of a Super eight film effect, maybe I can shoot on digital. It won't be as good
as Super eight because Super eight is
authentic, it's real. It's the best of the best. But I'm limited by my tools. I don't have enough
money to process all of this film footage. Then maybe I'll
shoot on digital, and then I'll create
the experience. I'll make it as close
as possible to film. I'll make it at a
certain frame rate, like the way that
it kind of jitters. I'll have it framed in
the letterbox and then I'll have the grains that
match a Supereight film just to get as
close as possible. And so the argument for AI these days is
very much similar to that because you
could spend a lot of time editing and doing the things that I
used to do manually. And frankly, it
didn't look good, like the example of my videos
where I was making Bro or getting Bro from just
random stock images, whereas now you can generate
Bro which people only look at for a split second that fits your entire theme and vibe. And I've seen accounts
that do this. They have a certain vibe because of the AI image
generations that they use. These images aren't
creating this whole brand, but it's adding to the brand, significantly because
this is the creator. The creator themselves
is the brand. It's like, if you
think about it, Banksy as an artist, makes these silhouette
type images that anybody can go out and
make a Banksy style image. But you can't charge
the money that Banksy charges for his art
because you're not Banksy. So the goal of an is
you as an is when you're using AI is to
communicate and make and bring to life your
intent, your vision, and whatever it is that you have in your mind to
bring out to life. And honestly, with AI, I think the limit is limitless, or at least the limit is what your imagination
can get you to.
6. Practices for being Creative with AI: So how do we think bigger when we're thinking about
AI and AI application? So this video, we're
going to have a practice. I'm going to give
you a couple steps so that you can think about your concept as we are using
AI to elevate your vision. And before you start
doing anything, ask yourself, what
is this big idea? What am I actually trying to say or do or get people to feel? For example, I had a funny
concept of I want people to feel like they were
in Europe and in love, and I was telling the story
through some fat chunky cat. And my idea of this was because
I have this pints board, and a lot of times there's these romantic shots of
people in Europe, like, you're like, Old money
Europe with wine, beautiful dates,
the Eiffel Tower in the back, and all of that. And I was like, What
if we told this in a humorous way with
fat chunky cats? So I used that as the basis
for what I wanted to tell, and that was my big idea. So what are you trying to say, and what are you trying
to get people to feel write it down. Put down
a story or a feeling. For me, I wanted this feeling to be nostalgically romantic. It's like maybe an 80s
movie kind of vibe, a bit of film in it. But of course, with
some cute cats, because the whole page is cats
and people love the cats. And I also love cats. So
think about the emotion, the feeling, the vibe. Everything that goes into it, and then think about it in your own spin because
you're uniquely you. You have your own tastes. You have things that
you appreciate. Maybe it's not just the colors, maybe there's certain sounds
in it. There's music in it. Maybe it's the fonts
that you're using. I'm a big person of font. Like, I'm a big font
lover, design lover. A lot of these
things can go into part of this vision that
you're bringing to life. And then the next
step is you can build a mood board out to consider as you're generating this or as you're building
this thing with AI. This is pretty standard
with advertising designers and everyone in the
creative industry. There's something that
you use as reference. So maybe you could put
together a couple of images, maybe some songs that fit this, maybe some words or
quotes that fit this, whatever you're trying to say or bring to life or
make people feel. And then finally, bring
it all together and use AI as your whole team. And that's the beauty
of it is that you as one person can now
be able to create something that
would probably take a whole team to do or
scenarios that are impossible, like, for example, cats
going on dates and drinking wine and standing by the train and kissing
and saying goodbye. And so, use your vision guide the AI and
bring this to life. Example that I typically
do is on mid journey, I use the style reference a lot. So when I have these
generations come out, it's all in a similar style, which is like an 80s type of, like, grainy, filmy
type of style. And that's just the
aesthetic that I like and the aesthetic that
I reference a lot. And even the colorways, I reflect or reference
these colorways a lot. So that's reflected
into what I'm generating and
what I appreciate. And that takes us
to the next step. Once you're generating all this and you're getting your results, how do they look? Do you
need to fix something? For example, if one image came out looking not quite
exactly what I want, maybe I'll go back
and I'll fix it. And that's the thing
with working with AI is a lot of times, you need to fix a lot of things. That's why when people say, AI is going to replace
designers, I say, there's a long way to go
before I get there because a lot of times I generate
something on AI. I have to bring it to Photoshop, fix something, bring it
back into another AI tool, and then I start
animating and doing this and that then maybe
that doesn't work out, so I have to go back
to the original fix it again and then go back to that other AI tool and then
tweak and make it work. And then if that doesn't work, I'll have to keep tweaking it. So it takes a long time actually
to do something with AI. So like I mentioned in some
of the other lectures, you have to put
your own personal spin on it and to make it even better than what
someone can just generate with AI
straight off the bat, because that is what
real creativity is, and that's how you elevate
your creativeness with AI. And then, ultimately, you
bring all this together and then steer in the direction that you want your stuff to look next, I'm going to show
you exactly how some of these posts that I
made that went viral. Surprisingly viral
on some of them, and I'll tell you the thought
process behind them and how I made them and how I
thought of these concepts.
7. Examples of AI Creations: Alright, so in this section, we're going to go
through how I used AI in a few aspects of my work. We're going to go through my
thought process and why I thought it would be helpful
to implement this use of AI. Now, what I want from
you is to focus on the why behind the AI and not just the tool
that's being used. So, for example, we can use AI for so many
different things. Why did I choose this
particular AI tool for this particular
vision that I have? And that's the same
with your work as well, because as creatives, you know, we can continue editing and
refining our work and just, like, keep going forever. I think it's the
innate perfectionist in so many different creatives. Challenge is to really hound
down on why certain AI tools were used in certain content and visions and materials
that I was putting out. So let's get started. The first
example I'm going to show you is these cats that
I used on Pika labs. So these cats that I have, they were actually a generation of the ones that I have
on my Instagram page, and I used the tool on
Pka labs to add it into the video so you could
see them running around and do all
sorts of crazy things. And this was going to be the introduction for a
video that I was going to post reasoning behind this
probably pretty obvious. The more dynamic
elements that you have, the more fun elements
that you have, the more engaging the
video is going to be. So I was like, Alright, we'll
use the cats that I have. It's relevant and it looks
good, and it's really fun. So then I generated these for the introduction of the video that I was going to put out. And I will share that this
actually took a lot of different renders for it to look okay. These
are the okay ones. There were a few other ones
that were just really bad that you won't even see it because it's just
not worth sharing. Same with a lot of the other examples
that I'll go through, and later on in the class, you're going to see me demonstrated how we use AI and
actually making something. And you'll see that
it goes through many, many, many different renders. Now, I'll also add another
thing too is that when I was writing this video
for this scene with the cats jumping around, I had also used AI to script out the
introduction for that. So there are many different
uses of AI in this, but the most obvious one is the visual that you see with
the cats jumping around. Now, the next example here is of these AI generated cats that I pulled a few different
inspiration from. So first, I wanted a concept
that was super magical that you wouldn't possibly be
able to find in real life. So I went on Pinter
and I was looking for the most romantic
type of situation, and I found some
potential images. And so I used that
image and dit it with some of the cat
renders that I already had. So I had two things that I made. So first, the AI generated
cat renders for the page, and then this other theme, this beautiful
backdrop, the setting. And then I used the tool to put them both
together and have this romantic date of these two cats on this almost impossibly
romantic backdrop. And so for that, thinking was, Okay, sure, I can make
two cats go on a date, but how can I make
these two cats go on an amazing date that is just so romantic that it's
off the charts romantic. So I was looking for inspiration for places to bring
that vision to life, and then I put
those two together, and then I generated the
video that you see with both of these cats in such a super magical romantic location. And so for this one, it
went from a photo to a different location
with that photo and then from that to the video. Now, another example
that I will share because I'm a LA native
born and raised, and I was actually in Hollywood when there were
fires up in the hill. So I got to see the fires,
and I was like, Okay, maybe we can do a piece
on just to lighten up the mood because
it was really heavy and serious at the time. So I was like, Okay, let's
make some cat firefighters. And then I took a lot of the inspiration
from firefighters, and then I generated
these chalky cats wearing firefighter uniforms, and then I made a set of images and then from
that set of images, I brought it to my favorite
photo to video animator. And then I made clips
to put together this type of short film of
cats putting out the fires. And as I was building
all of these images, I had to think about, okay, the location, how can I
make this LA related? How can I make it
on a positive note? So there are things
in there like there's a Hollywood sign. There's a baby cat
this cat is rescuing. There's the team of cats
that's putting out the fires, and it's all really cute and thought out
at the end of it. Like, I couldn't just generate
something and be like, Hey, generate me this, and
then it will come out. I had to find, like, Hollywood sign images,
combine it with cats, render it a few times. And then when that image
looked good, okay, I'll go and make that
image into a video. And then when these
clips looked good, I had a series of clips. That's when I put it all
together and then made it into this short film
that I posted online. Now, these are just a few
examples of my own work. Let's move on, and I'll show you exactly what it's like to be behind the scenes and making.
8. Bringing it to Life (Demonstration): Alright, so this is
the fun section. We're actually going
to go in and make and bring this vision
that we have to life. Now, this vision that I have here is to celebrate a holiday. This one, in particular,
is a romantic holiday. And so we're going to make
this magical concept of a chunky cat for this
love romantic holiday. Now, the tools
that I use in here is Mid journey to generate the I bring it into Photoshop to add certain
elements to fix certain things, and then finally, I
finish it off with Kling. Now, it does sound
super easy and simple, and the tools are very
capable, but as you'll see, it does take a while, and it does take a lot of
renders to finally get to a product that is good
enough to post online. So let's jump into the computer. Okay, so I want to start off by showing this cat that
we're going to work on. So this one I made
from a few things. So I first used this
image as inspiration because I wanted it to be somewhere super
magical and just, like, out there since we're
doing a Valentine's Day post. And since we're using AI, we should utilize the fact that it could be anything everywhere. And then I just have this
prompt that I used from before a cute chubby
orange cat holds up a sign that reads
Happy Valentine's Day. The cat is wearing a
heart shaped necklace and roses around his
waist, just some details. And then, here's the cat. So from this, I'm just going to save this ready because
I already like this cat, and I'm going to show you
what to do after the AI part. So AI basically makes it a level playing ground for
everyone to make content. And the fact that this is
already just done on AI, we need to be able to bring
it to the next level. So that's where I'm going to
take it into Photoshop and make it into something
that is just more magical. So from here, I would do something like heart
shaped balloons, just to build onto the scene. Shaped balloons here. And then I want the
goal of this is to make it as
extravagant as possible. So I'm going to have
balloons, so I'm going to think maybe a wine bottle, some flowers, chocolate
maybe if it fits. But let's see how this
balloon comes up, and then we're going to do
some flowers on the bottom. Okay, there's a lot of balloons. I kind of like the second one, but I don't know what
this flower thing is. We could generate it again. It does take a while
to generate sometimes, but it's worth it to
generate it again sometimes because it gets kind of weird if you just use the first
render once in a while. But for the most part,
it's pretty good. Okay, now there's these ones. I wish it was just
all one color. Okay? That one is a bit strange. So it does take a few
renders sometimes. So I'm just going
to do this again and do heart shaped balloons. Then if that doesn't work, we're just gonna I mean,
it's gonna work. We're gonna do it till it works. And then on the
bottom, we'll have some roses on the bottom. And basically, I'm also trying
to do a couple of things. As I'm framing this, you can see that the cat is basically,
two thirds of the way up. And on that last third, I'm having the
balloon thing, right? So that is like the one third of the bottom of
the whole thing. So we'll do balloons on the
top, and it just doesn't. It's just not doing it.
At least not for me. I feel like this is I feel like, Alright, this one is okay. We can use this one.
To get things moving. But I still feel let's
do one more render. Let's just move
on to this first, and we'll do the roses first. So I'm going to have this
bottom here, bouquet of roses. Sometimes it just
takes a few renders. We'll do this roses here. We'll do, like, a wine
bottle on the left. And then the element to look
for as I'm doing this is imagine the bottom is basically
split out into threes. So like one third, another two thirds, and
then the last third. And then the bottom here would
just be roses right there. And then on this side, we're going to have maybe
a wine bottle right here. So a wine bottle. And then this is just, like, part of the other third. And then now we have
a lot of things going on in the bottom
third of the image, which is essentially the
focus of this image. So once this generates, we'll look and see
what it looks like, wine bottle here, okay? I mean, I mean, it's not like Perfect, right? Like, I feel like it should
be leaning a bit more. Nah. Okay, I'm not
gonna use that, but I will try a
glass of champagne. It's kind of funny, actually, because this champagne on this bed is actually probably
gonna fall off, right? So if it doesn't work, we might just keep the wine bottle. And then on the top, we're gonna render some balloons again. Okay, champagne,
champagne, too close. So I'm gonna delete that.
We're gonna use a wine bottle, maybe this wine bottle. And then on the top, we're
gonna do some red balloons. Doesn't have to be
heart shaped, I guess. Just red balloons will be fine. If it has some cute
looking balloons, we got a lot of roses already. Ah, I mean, hearts is a
nice is a nice touch. Okay, last render. We're going to do this,
and we're going to do a heart one. I think the hearts is better. Heart Hearts, my insects telling me hearts is going
to be way more fun. Heart balloons. Okay, instead of heart shaped balloons, we're doing
heart balloons. And once we have these
heart balloons on the top, we're gonna bring it to
the animation thing, which will be Kling,
which is my favorite. It's AI photo to video
company based out in China, and they have been doing
some amazing stuff. Okay, so the hearts
look good here. So are you going to do two big heart balloons or these ones? I actually like this
one a bit more. So that is it for the
image here. Alright? So I will export this. We'll save it as
Valentine's cat. Now, I also want it to have
a similar theme everywhere, and I have these old, like, viscal film kind of filters or, like, templates,
presets that I use. So I'm going to
use that on there. I will put less grain
on there because there is a lot of grain,
smaller size grain. No roughness. Okay, just
a little bit of grain. Then I'm going to add a little
sharpness to it just to bring this image
out a little bit. And then we can also just
give it color if wanted, maybe not so much,
just a little bit. And this looks pretty good. So I'm going to export
this the final export. Then from these exports, I just brought it into
King, and then from here, I'm going to do one
generation I usually keep it at standard mode because it's quick and it
uses only 20 credits. So we do standard
mode generation, and then we're also going
to do another one where slow so that one was slow
zoom in on a cat smiling. We're also going to do
one without a prompt. So I already tested out a few virsins before
recording this video, but I wanted to take you
guys along on the route. So here is the one
that we just did, and I am generating two of them. Alright, so it finished. We got some here. Here's the first one.
It's like a slow zoom in. And the cat is just smiling
once it gets really zoomed. It does look a little fake, but let's see what
this other one has. So the other one is the balloons moving and the cat
barely doing anything. So I actually like the first one better because it just
seems more dynamic. And I'll also do another one of maybe cat purring or cat smelling just to see
if we have something good. But I think this
first one works, and I'll save that, and we're probably going to just
use this for our video. Usually, my cats
don't smile so big, but here are the
other ones as well, the other renders that I
just so you can get an idea. So, this one is,
like, a baby smile, and there's some box of
chocolates down there. And this one I actually
really liked a lot, too. The heart's moving, and then the box is just kind
of moving around, which I thought
was a bit unreal. So, I mean, I guess
if we're doing AI, it might as well be as
unreal as possible, right? So I'll save that one. And then the other renders that came out were
just pretty bad. Like, this first one barely
even had any movement. I think it was just
slowly zooming. This one was just also just zooming in, no
movement at all. And so what we just had was a lot better. It
was kind of a zoom in. The cat is breathing,
and then the cat smiles. Okay, so this is
the one that we got barely any movement
from the cat, right? Like, it's not
really noticeable. I guess on full screen,
it is kind of noticeable. So it's either that one
or the slow zoom in. I do like having a bit of a zoom in because it just seems
more like something. And the cat's smiling.
Smiling is really cute. So I'm going to use
the smiling one, and let's go and post it.
9. Conclusion: Okay, thank you for
watching the class, and I would appreciate
if you could leave a review and let me know
what you thought about it, to summarize and to give
some encouragement. You, as a creative, have an
advantage over everybody else because you can do something with AI that not
everyone else can do. And because AI is so democratized now,
everyone can use it. Everyone has access to it, your responsibility is to
think about how you can bring your artwork and
elevate it to the next level. Now, we covered
many different ways to think about this
in this class, and I'm hoping to see that
in the projects below. So thanks a lot for
watching this class, and I'll see you next time.
Arnold Trinh, Multi-Disciplinary Creative
