Workflow as World-building
How to use AI, sound, & motion to tell interactive stories
Today, the most interesting creative work happens when concept, world-building, motion, sound, AI, and interface stop being separate disciplines and start operating as a single voice. This workshop is a live demonstration of that and an invitation to try it out yourself.
Moving through concepts, AI image/video generation, motion, 3D, and AI-assisted coding, not as isolated techniques but as a single system. The emphasis is on how to direct tools toward a singular vision, not on the tools themselves.
The result will be a website that reacts to sound and works like a digital installation that can hear, move, and breathe. Behaviors that respond to sound. Scroll transitions. Hover states. AI-generated visuals you've actually directed. Motion design & code that bends to the concept, not the other way around.
You'll leave with a clearer sense of your own workflow, a working prototype, and a framework for approaching any future project as a director rather than a technician.
Who this is for: Designers, musicians, developers, and multidisciplinary creatives who are building their own language — and are ready to see how far it can travel.
Come with a mix, a concept, or just a feeling you've been trying to make into something.
Program
The workshop goes through one project from beginning to end: a website that reacts to sound and acts like an environment instead of a page.
AI image generation and image-to-video tools
After Effects for motion and compositing
Blender for selected spatial or 3D components
AI-assisted coding / cloud coding workflows
A custom-built or code-assisted website environment for interactive behavior
The emphasis will be on how these tools are orchestrated together, not on teaching them one by one in isolation.
Learning Outcomes
Learn how AI accelerates experimentation without replacing judgment, taste, or authorship
Create a critical framework for comprehending AI as infrastructure, with tangible implications for labor, power, and the construction of future trajectories
See how a multi-tool creative workflow operates as a single system
Understand how AI-assisted coding can help bring a complex visual vision to life without a traditional dev background
Leave with a way to think about AI as more than just software; it's a system with political power
Instructor Bio
Lucas Chagas is a multidisciplinary designer focused on storytelling and emerging technology. Working across visual design, sound, and motion, creating concept-driven experiences that explore systems, behavior, and culture. Often exploring how structure and emotion collide, especially in spaces where music, technology, and art blur together.