To keep testing Utopai Studios, I gave it a little Western: a lone cowboy shoots one of the men attacking a young Native woman. When he’s about to be lynched, a huge fight breaks out, he’s saved, and he rides off alone, thinking about her. Utopai gave me a detailed 14‑point script, then generated front views of the four main characters (the hero, the young woman, the villain, and the sheriff), which I approved. After that, it created as many keyframes as needed. I only had to tweak two of them so the hero wasn’t still wearing his hat with a rope around his neck, or still carrying his Colt on his belt up on the gallows.

AI Directing and Producing is a money making skill. And in the past... @Richard Duszczak asked how much would I charge for animating. Business Skills help you make even more money if you know your customer, and your competition. Case in point: I just got offered $300 usd to create a YouTube video promoting a tool that apparently helps create animations with a beautiful pipeline that allows you to create storyboard panels, then put your scenes together. I instead offered a counter offer with massive value, and now, they are willing to pay 10X+ more than what they originally mentioned. I ofered a package for $3,200, and they agreed. Now, I am still not 100% sure if I am going to help them launch this new AI Platform because I first need to use it and have to love it to recommend it to my students. But in general, I would like to know if anyone is interested in learning business to charge more for your work, and positioning your offer in a way that the prospect customer gets excited to pay more.

Hey there, You know how creating an animated short usually means juggling 3-4 different tools — a script doc, an animation app, a video editor, and hours of stitching everything together? What if you could skip all of that? I just dropped a new video where I go from a story idea to a fully finished animated short in minutes using ONE platform called Pai by Utopai Studios. No Premiere. No CapCut. No timeline editing at all. Now if you are like me, then you can take the finished animated sequence and edit it more to polish it as I show in the video tutorial today. Here's what blew me away: ✅ You write your script right inside the tool ✅ It generates characters you can actually approve and adjust ✅ You get full keyframe control, so it's not just "AI slop" ✅ You can export to 4K if you want to fine-tune in your own editor Whether you're just starting out or you've been animating for years, this changes the game for how fast you can go from concept to finished piece. 👉 Watch the full walkthrough here I show you the entire workflow step by step so you can follow along and try it yourself. 🔗 Try Utopai here

Hi! Right now I have everything I need to start prompting 40 panels for the frames I will use in animation. And as I have been experimenting, I found a pattern on my prompts, and instead of creating a Prompt for you to copy paste, and adjust, I am creating a little online software (with the help of AI) where you can visually click on stuff to make your choices easier, just like the Prompt Tool (if you haven't used it, you can test it for free). But this one will allow you to have multiple characters, and apply my framework of using a characters + background + annotation → cool frame. And to make my life easier I am programing this tool to help me prompt much faster, with less work, and be able to enjoy myself more while prompting and creating all the 40 frames I need to animate. If you are in the AI Animation Masterclass, you will be able to access this tool once I have it fully tested and working.

@Mark Diaz Mark, I am at the Storyboard lessons (13-15) in your AI Class and it hit me about your creative process and thinking, you picked the script, back ground music and sound effects before you generated the storyboard images. While watching the clip in #15 it sounded more like an audio story first and then you added the images for the story. Here's my understanding so far about your creative process: 1. Story idea. 2. Character script. 3. Background music. 4. Character image development. 5. Location/background image development. 6. Scene/shot development. 7. Record script/voice audio 8. Build basic animation in video editing software (lesson 15 example). 9. ... Is this close to your creative processes? Thank you, I guess I'm too step by step oriented at this moment.