Thirteen cards covering the structure of AI Cinematic Realism: where a synthetic image breaks, the three layers it breaks in, the craft that repairs each one, the production workflow, and the forty-point rubric for judging the result. Free to download, adapt and teach under CC BY 4.0.
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AI Cinematic Realism (AICR) in 30 Images: A Visual Guide to the Framework
A visual introduction to AI Cinematic Realism (AICR) through 30 images, exploring its core ideas, three strata, eight commitments, four pillars, production workflow, 40-point rubric, and broader argument for intentional, authored, and accountable AI filmmaking.
Eight Essential Principles in Practice: Human-Centered Learning in the Age of AI
Eight Essential Principles offers a human-centered framework for navigating AI in education. Through real-world cases, it explores flourishing, relationships, creativity, accessibility, equity, inclusion, openness, and universality—showing how educators can use AI intentionally while keeping human judgment, authorship, trust, and meaningful learning at the center.
AI Cinematic Realism (AICR) Production Manual
The AICR Production Manual turns AI Cinematic Realism into a working craft. Across three strata — authorial, perceptual, and environmental — plus a sonic layer, it gives filmmakers a disciplined workflow for synthetic cinema: generate, evaluate, correct, regenerate. With checklists, style bible templates, and prompt architectures.
AI Cinematic Realism for AI Filmmakers: The AICR Framework, Its Ideas, and Its Craft
What must a synthetic image achieve to behave like cinema? AI Cinematic Realism (AICR), presented whole for working AI filmmakers: the Ideational Frame, the three strata, a century of craft translated into the latent space, conscious assembly, the maker as moral agent, and the forty-point rubric.
AI Cinematic Realism (Second Edition): A Reader’s Map to the Book
AI Cinematic Realism reframes synthetic video beyond “looks real” or “deepfake” anxiety, asking instead whether an AI image feels true: coherent, intentional, ethical, and emotionally plausible. This reader’s map condenses the book’s framework, craft grammar, rubric, and pedagogy into a practical guide for makers, critics, and educators.
AI Cinematic Realism (Second Edition) — The Framework in Brief
The definitive overview of AI Cinematic Realism (Second Edition), from its author: the Ideational Frame, the three strata, the craft grammar, the four pillars of conscious assembly, the forty-point rubric, and intentional seeing — a complete working language for synthetic cinema.
AI Cinematic Realism (AICR): Framework, Tools, and Structural Overview
AI Cinematic Realism (AICR) reframes realism in the post-camera era as felt coherence rather than photographic proof. This structural overview maps its philosophical foundations, three strata, craft grammar, four pillars, ethical commitments, and evaluation tools for analyzing and creating synthetic cinema with intention, credibility, and emotional truth.
A 40-Point Rubric for Evaluating AI Cinematic Realism: A Practical Instrument for Critics, Scholars, Filmmakers, and Educators in the Post-Camera Era
A 40-point rubric for evaluating AI-generated cinema across eight criteria — from perceptual realism to ethical accountability. Built for critics, scholars, and filmmakers who need a shared, repeatable vocabulary for assessing synthetic cinema beyond impressionistic judgment.
Intentional Seeing: AI Cinematic Realism as a Pedagogy for the Post-Camera Era
AI Cinematic Realism began as a way to evaluate synthetic cinema. But its three strata describe something larger: a pedagogy of intentional seeing that trains the very faculties — attention, coherence, and authorship — that generative AI puts at risk of atrophy.