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The Only AI Filmmaking Workflow You'll Ever Need

Presents a single creator's preferred end-to-end workflow for AI filmmaking, from prompt structure through to final edit. Opinionated about tool choice but clear about the reasoning behind each step.

Creating with Conor · 15 min · Intermediate · AIF · AI Filmmaking · 2025

What you take away

Can compare a settled personal workflow against their own current process.

Watch it

Filed under

Science fiction to study

Books for the craft underneath

Digital Compositing for Film and Video — Steve Wright
Cartoon Animation — Preston Blair
The VES Handbook of Visual Effects — Jeffrey A. Okun, Susan Zwerman
Special Effects: The History and Technique — Richard Rickitt
To Infinity and Beyond! — Karen Paik
Timing for Animation — Harold Whitaker, John Halas

Run the models yourself

Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850X 4TB — The other one, usually cheaper
SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE 8TB — Desktop archive drive built for footage
Corsair 128GB DDR5 kit — For Unreal, caches and twelve open applications
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K — Quick Sync, which some codecs still love
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X — 16 cores — the sweet spot for a cutting room
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — The sensible half-price render card

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