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AI Filmmaking: Create Animated Films, Series & Ads with AI
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AI Filmmaking: Create Animated Films, Series & Ads with AI

Script, design, animate, voice and edit cinematic AI films, animated series and ads in one complete production workflow
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn

  • Plan a complete AI film or series in professional order: premise, series overview, episodes, scenes and timed shot lists
  • Write scripts, shot lists and filter-safe image and motion prompts with Claude, and build your own Claude Skill
  • Generate cinematic images and video with MagicLight, Kling, Google Flow (Veo 3), OpenArt, Hedra and dzine
  • Create consistent characters and character sheets, and direct exact poses so your cast looks the same in every shot
  • Make characters talk with lip-sync and custom voices, and create music and voiceover with Suno and ElevenLabs
  • Edit, caption, enhance and export finished videos in CapCut for YouTube, Shorts, Reels, TikTok and learning platforms

Course content

13 sections • 88 lectures • 11h 29m total length
  • Idea Development with AI Chat (Claude)11:20
  • Script & Shot List with Claude ( Claude Skills )12:48

Requirements

  • PC or Mac.
  • Firefox, Opera or Chrome browser.
  • A Free or Paid Subscription to ChatGPT, Claude, Magiclight, PowToon, Animaker, Vyond, and another platform.
  • Curiosity and a story or product idea you want to bring to life - you will build your own project as you go

Description

Make a complete AI film the way a studio does — and do every job yourself.

AI tools now let one person write, design, animate, voice and edit a finished film. The tools are not the hard part anymore. The hard part is knowing which tool to use at which stage, how to keep a character looking the same in shot 1 and shot 300, how to write prompts that don't get rejected, and how to turn a pile of clips into something people actually want to watch.

This course teaches that missing part: a production workflow. Instead of a tour of disconnected apps, you follow one professional pipeline from idea to delivery — Idea → Script → Audio → Style Guide → Storyboard → Images → Video → Lip-Sync → Effects → Editing → Upscale → Delivery — and you learn the right tools at the exact stage where they belong.

Taught on a real, published AI series — not on throwaway demos

Most of the advanced lessons are taught on an original 3D animated series I created with AI and published on YouTube: "Aladdin and the Forty Thieves", set in 9th-century Abbasid Baghdad. Its first episode runs about 27 minutes, with a recurring cast of more than a dozen characters who stay consistent from scene to scene.

That changes how you learn. When I teach consistent characters, you see the real character sheets behind the episode. When I teach prompting, you see the actual prompts that generated the published shots. When I teach lip-sync, you watch a real dialogue scene being built. You learn from finished, public work — so you can judge the method by its results.

Write with AI — and build your own AI production assistant

Every strong film starts on the page. You'll use Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini as a writers' room: turning a vague idea into a premise with real conflict, stress-testing it before you spend a single credit, and expanding it in the professional order — series overview first, then episodes, then scenes.

Then you'll learn something few AI video courses teach: Claude Skills. You'll see how a single "production bible" file can hold your world's rules, your character templates and your technical limits, so Claude writes scenes, shot lists and prompts that follow every rule automatically — and remembers them in every new chat. You'll learn what belongs in a skill, how to structure it, and how to build a small one for your own project.

· Turn an idea into a series overview, episode outlines and full scene scripts

· Break a scene into a timed shot list (about 12 shots per minute)

· Write separate image prompts and motion prompts for every shot

· Use filter-safe wording so legitimate cinematic prompts aren't rejected

· Build your own Claude Skill that enforces your story's rules

Audio: music, voices and voiceover

You'll create original songs and score with Suno, generate narration and character voices with ElevenLabs and dzine text-to-speech, and learn the ethics of voice cloning. You'll also turn song lyrics into a full animated music video with MagicLight.

Images and consistent characters

Consistency is what separates a series from a collection of random clips. In this section you'll build a full cast and keep it locked:

· Generate cinematic key frames with dzine, Nano Banana and Playground AI

· Create reusable characters and character sheets from reference images

· Direct exact poses with dzine's pose-control skeleton instead of hoping the AI guesses

· Build group shots with several named characters in one frame

· Generate scene variations and use image-to-prompt to match an existing look

· Finish images: enhance and upscale, reframe from 16:9 to 9:16, and remove unwanted objects

Video generation: the engines

You'll learn when to reach for each video engine and how to get usable shots from it:

· MagicLight — from basics and plans to an advanced workflow, ready templates, cartoon videos, realistic and faith-based videos, and professional explainers (with the prompts included)

· Kling — image-to-video, motion and visual effects

· Google Flow with Veo 3 and Nano Banana, plus Google Vids for quick clips, animation and music

· OpenArt — a complete step-by-step workflow for AI video

· Hedra — talking avatars and professional AI video

· dzine — image-to-video and the per-image video tools (motion, sound effects, enhancement)

Lip-sync and talking characters

Pictures become performances. You'll make characters speak with natural lip-sync, set a speaking style, create a custom cloned voice, and build a two-character dialogue scene step by step.

Editing, finishing and delivery

You'll assemble your shots into a film in CapCut — timing, pacing, transitions, captions and polish — then enhance the result and export the right formats for YouTube, Shorts, Reels, TikTok and learning platforms.

Ads Masterclass: a complete commercial workflow

Ads are one of the most practical uses of these skills. This section walks through a full commercial workflow: writing the brief, scripting hooks for the first three seconds, creating images, animating with Hedra and Runway, finishing with Dreamina, and a full start-to-finish cinematic ad built with Higgsfield and Claude. You'll also turn a single product image into a talking spokesperson ad in dzine, and export every version a platform needs.

Bonus track: explainer and corporate animation

Not every project is cinematic. If you teach, train staff or explain products, you'll get a full track on dedicated animation platforms — Wondershare Anireel, Powtoon, Animaker and Vyond — including the AI features inside Vyond and Powtoon, and a side-by-side comparison to help you choose the right one for your project.

How the course is built

· Pipeline-first: every section is a production stage, in the order real productions use

· Real prompts on screen: you see what was typed, what came back, and how it was fixed

· Practical tasks at the end of each stage so you build your own project as you go

· Honest about limits: you'll learn where AI tools struggle and the workarounds that save time and credits

· [Downloadable resources: the companion production guide, prompt templates and an example Claude Skill]

Who this course is for

· Content creators and YouTubers who want to produce animated stories, series or faceless channels

· Filmmakers, animators and designers who want to add AI to their production workflow

· Marketers and small-business owners who want to produce their own video ads

· Teachers, trainers and instructional designers who need explainer and educational animation

· Complete beginners — no filmmaking, animation or editing experience is required

Requirements

· A computer with a modern web browser and a stable internet connection

· Accounts on the tools you choose to use — many offer free tiers or trials; some advanced features require a paid plan

· No prior experience in AI, filmmaking or animation

AI video tools change quickly. Interfaces get redesigned and new models appear every few months, so lessons are updated as the tools change. The tools will keep changing — the production workflow is what lasts, and that's what this course teaches.

Start with the first section and make your first AI video in minutes — then build your own film, one production stage at a time.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner to advance-level video producers, animators, and designers looking to enhance their skills using AI tools.
  • Content creators and YouTubers who want to produce animated stories, series or faceless channels with consistent characters
  • Filmmakers, animators, designers and marketers who want to add AI to their workflow or produce their own video ads
  • Teachers, trainers and complete beginners who want to create explainer videos or their first AI film with no experience