AI for Video Creation & Animation: From Idea to Finished Film
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About This Course
AI has changed who gets to make video. You no longer need a camera crew, an animation studio or years of software training to tell a story on screen — you need a clear idea and the right workflow. This course gives you that workflow.
Who this is for
- Creators, marketers and small business owners who want to make video without a big budget
- Complete beginners — no editing or animation experience needed
- Anyone curious about AI video and animation who wants a structured, honest guide
What makes this course different
Tools change every month. Instead of teaching you to click buttons in one app that might disappear, this course teaches the pipeline and the thinking — so you can pick up any new tool in an afternoon. You will build real projects and finish with a short film of your own.
By the end you will have made, with your own hands, a finished AI video and a piece of AI animation — and you will understand exactly how you did it.
Daniel Aduama
Curriculum Overview
This course includes 6 modules, 21 lessons, and 2:41 hours of materials.
Start here. What you will build, how the course is structured, and how to study it.
A map of the tools that matter right now - organised by the job they do.
Your roadmap plus the free accounts to open before Module 2. View online or download.
A plain-language mental model so you can predict what the tools will and will not do well.
The five stages every AI video moves through - and why the order matters.
Every tool from this module in one printable page, grouped by job. Keep it next to you as you work.
A quick check on the landscape and the pipeline. You need 60% to pass; you have 3 attempts.
The six-part prompt formula that turns a vague idea into a usable shot.
How to get consistent, controllable shots by animating a still image you designed.
Fill-in-the-blank prompt templates for products, characters, B-roll and stylised shots.
Goal: generate your first usable video clip and practise iterating.
Steps
- Pick any subject you like.
- Using the six-part formula, write a prompt (subject, action, setting, style, camera, lighting).
- Generate it in any video tool (Runway, Kling, Luma and others have free trials).
- Regenerate at least twice, changing one ingredient each time.
Submit: your best 5-second clip (a link is fine) and the three prompt versions you tried, with one sentence on what changed and why. Passing mark: 60/100.
Give your video a voice - either an invisible narrator or an on-screen AI presenter.
Score your video with AI music, then cut it together like an editor.
Run through this before every export - edit, publish and responsible-use checks in one page.
How AI is changing 2D and 3D animation - from markerless motion capture to full CG characters.
The two hardest problems in AI animation - and the practical tricks that solve them.
Make work you can stand behind - the ethics and rules that protect you and your audience.
Export for the right platform and give your video the best chance to be watched.
This is the course capstone. Create a finished 30–60 second video, made with AI, that tells one clear little story or delivers one clear message.
Requirements
- A short script you wrote (or co-wrote with a chat AI).
- At least three AI-generated shots, cut together.
- An AI voiceover or AI music (ideally both).
- Captions and a proper aspect ratio for your chosen platform.
- A one-line AI disclosure.
Submit a link to the finished video plus a short paragraph on your workflow: which tools you used at each pipeline stage and what you would improve next time. Passing mark: 60/100.
Confirm the key ideas from the whole course. 60% to pass; 3 attempts. Earn your certificate.
Bring your final project. In this live online session we review student videos, troubleshoot prompts and tools, and answer your questions. A join button appears here shortly before we start.
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