Future Film: Carl Cramer on the Leap from Editor to AI Artist
Carl has become a trusted creative voice and standout contributor in the Future Film community.
Earlier this year, Carl led one of our most impactful Future Film sessions, walking the group through how he created a cinematic AI trailer from nothing but a screenplay, before a single frame of the film had been shot.
Carl's trailer helped the film's producers communicate the vision, tone, and cinematic potential of the project clearly enough to raise a multi-million-dollar budget.
In that session, Carl took us inside his entire creative process, from how the project came to him, to how he structured the work, collaborated with the producers, chose the tools, designed the workflow, and shaped the final trailer.
Now Carl is working as an AI Artist and Consultant at Lionsgate, the studio behind John Wick, The Hunger Games, and La La Land.
For this session, Carl will lead a new Future Film conversation about what the work has actually involved, what he is learning from real professional AI workflows, and what those experiences are teaching him about where this field is headed.
At the same time, Carl has continued developing his own personal AI filmmaking work, including a sci-fi project where he is exploring cinematic world-building, character design, shot construction, and the evolving relationship between editing and AI image making.
He'll share some pieces of that work in progress and talk through how his own creative process is changing as he works across both studio-driven AI projects and his own cinematic experiments.
This will be a rare chance to hear from someone in our own community who is actively making the leap from editor to AI artist, while also continuing to push his own creative practice forward.
We'll talk about the professional work, look at examples, walk through process, and open it up for questions from the group.