Become the talent the AI era is hiring.
What’s at stake.
California creative jobs gone since 2022, across film, sound, design and media
AI’s share of arts job postings doubled in twelve months
what Anthropic pays AI engineers; Adobe posts creative technologists to $250K
AI is rewriting the jobs that remain toward oversight and judgment. We train people for that work, one certified seat at a time. Six roles with sourced salary ranges.
Sources: Otis College Report on the Creative Economy, 2026; Indeed Hiring Lab via The Hollywood Reporter; Levels.fyi, Anthropic Applied AI Engineer ($300K to $1.2M); Adobe job posting, Principal Creative Technologist, Video and Generative AI ($142,700 to $250,000). Experienced-hire bands, not starting salaries.
Taste without the tools stalls. Tools without taste ship noise. The era belongs to people fluent in both.
Two ways in.
Add AI to your craft.
Masterclasses at the top of the craft, starting Sep 13 with a former Lucasfilm advisor and film-school dean. Plus a benchmark that shows what the models can and cannot do yet.
Add craft to your code.
Build beside the creatives we certify, on the same brief. The Academy opens this fall, graded against a benchmark no model vendor funds.
Join. Learn. Get certified.
The best work of the AI era comes from people fluent in art and code. We train both in the same room. Cost never decides who gets in.
In-person events
Masterclasses, hackathons, screening nights, led by industry leaders. San Francisco now, your city by waitlist.
The Multimodal Academy
Eight weeks. Every week ends in a graded deliverable. The last one is a capstone defended live. Sliding scale, scholarship seats.
Work with top companies
Sponsoring companies bring the capstone brief. You deliver it and the credit is yours. Starts with the fall cohort.
See the full curriculum →AI Filmmaking Masterclass + Hackathon
A former Lucasfilm advisor and film-school dean teaches the craft. You make an AI short the same day and watch it on the big screen that night. Application only; the notify list hears first.
Masterclass
The bar for who teaches: film-school deans, studio department heads, frontier engineers. Sliding scale, scholarship seats.
Hackathon
One day, mixed crews. You leave with a finished film, screened that night.
Screening Night
Members screen what they made. Industry leaders give notes; the room votes.
Benchmark Night
The benchmark behind the credential, argued in the open. No vendor’s money touches it.
See the benchmark →
The Multimodal
Academy
Eight assessed weeks on the briefs top companies hire for.
Sliding scale. Scholarship seats. No degree required.
Certified AI Engineer, Creative Systems
Levels.fyi lists Anthropic AI engineers from $300K to $1.2M.
Certified Creative Technologist, Generative Media
Adobe posts the role to $250K.
Four assessed modules per track, from one pipeline across every model family through evaluation, provenance, and the capstone brief.
The standards are public: the capstone is scored with the Taste Rubric, at L3 on the Skill Ladder.
You’re not alone.
Mentor circles
Small circles led by industry leaders, matched by hand to build the next generation of top talent.
Find a teammate
Tell us who you are looking for. We match by hand.
Volunteer
Events do not run themselves. Help produce a night, open a chapter, or run the room.
Find your city.
Join the society.
Multimodal event invites, new GenAI course launches, mentorship openings, and the benchmark report the day it drops.
You’re in.
Membership is live. Next up: claim a seat at the Sep 13 masterclass and hackathon, or browse everything on the calendar.
Help support the next generation of creative AI talent. Fund a scholarship seat →