Dr. Ise Nakagawa
Prompting & Composition
Teaches Chapters 1 and 2. Holds that a bad prompt worth diagnosing teaches more than a good one you can't explain.
EST · MMXXVI · A course in AI image & video
AI Image & Film
A practical course in AI image and video generation, from an institute that has never been in a hurry. Five chapters, video and written, no wasted motion.
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- Chapters
- Five
- Format
- Video + written
- Run time
- ~2 hours
- Access
- Lifetime
The premise
Everyone can type a prompt. Very few people can direct one.
Most people's first hundred AI images look like everyone else's first hundred: vague prompts, default settings, a lucky result they can't reproduce and can't explain. This course exists to close that gap in the shortest honest path we could find.
It teaches the whole loop: writing a prompt that holds up under iteration, directing composition and light instead of hoping for them, reading the settings panel like an instrument instead of ignoring it, finishing a raw generation properly, and putting a still into motion without it looking like a still that moved.
No tool-of-the-week hype. Technique that outlasts whichever model is popular this month.
The curriculum
Five chapters
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Chapter 1 · Prompting · 16 min
Prompting Fundamentals
What a prompt actually does, its five-part anatomy, and the iteration loop that gets you a controlled result instead of a lucky one.
Chapter 2 · 24 min
Composition & Control
Chapter 3 · 22 min
Models & Settings
Chapter 4 · 20 min
Upscaling & Detail Work
Chapter 5 · 26 min
Image to Film
The method
Three habits, held for a lifetime
- 01
Chase the variable, not the vibe
Change one thing between generations, one word, one setting, so you actually learn what caused the difference, instead of just knowing it happened.
- 02
Log every setting
A favorite image with no record of its prompt or seed is a lucky accident, not a technique. Write down what made it work while you can still get back to it.
- 03
Keep the outtakes
The generations that didn't work teach you more about a model's actual behavior than the ones you'd post. Don't delete them before you've asked why.
Faculty
Taught by three people who log everything
A. Oyelaran
Models & Settings
Teaches Chapter 3. Calibrates every new tool before trusting it, and will make you do the same until it stops feeling like overkill.
M. Bellweather
Refinement & Motion
Teaches Chapters 4 and 5. Believes the upscale is the most underrated step in the whole process, and says so often.
The library
Prompt Bibles
Animation Style Atlas
Colour Grading
Composition Framing
Creature Kinetics
Dance Step Atlas
Eye Gaze Kinetics
Fabric
Film Bible Vol. 1 · Seedance Playbook
Film Bible Vol. 2 · VFX Playbook
Inner Eye
Light Kinetics
Register of Wrong Things
Surrealism
The Animal Actor
The Background Players
The Blocking Floor
The Brief Before the Shot
The Closeness Atlas
The Cloth in Motion
The Directors Chair
The Edit Room
The Fabric Studio
The Follow Through
The Genre Compass
The Hand Off
The Hero Shot
The Honest Hand
The Honest Smile
The Invisible Cut
The Kitchen Light
The Listening Room
The Long Take
The Look Book
The Loop
The Moss Engine
The Peach Fuzz Halo
The Room Tone
The Running Order
The Same Face
The Second Light
The Second Skin
The Small Hours
The Speaking Part
The Thumbnail Wall
The Tiny Stage
The Upholstered Dream
The Vertical Frame
The Voice Booth
The Weather Clock
Weather
Enrollment
One price, no subscription
$149 one-time
- All five chapters, video and written, unlocked immediately
- Lifetime access, including future chapter updates
- Works with whatever image or video tool you already use
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