AI MASTERCLASS
Transform Your Studio with AI Tools
The AI Masterclass is a hands-on training experience created for architecture, design, and visualization studios ready to integrate AI into their creative workflow. Through live demonstrations and real project scenarios, teams learn how to apply modern AI tools effectively in real production environments — accelerating design exploration, improving efficiency, and unlocking new creative possibilities.
Tailored Training
Supercharge Your Studio with Next-Level AI Skills
Unlock your studio’s creative potential with the AI Masterclass — a customized program designed for architecture, design, and visualization teams. Equip your team to harness tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, Freepik, Magnific, Tripo 3D, Kling, Nano Banana and Review Spaces AI Tools for Photoshop to drive innovation, boost productivity, and deliver exceptional results.
Content & Benefits
AI Workflows for Architecture & Visualization Studios
Follow a proven creative pipeline designed for architecture and visualization studios — combining advanced AI tools with design expertise to transform early ideas into refined, high-impact visuals.
Thinking with ChatGPT
Leverage the power of ChatGPT to generate ideas, refine narratives, and streamline communication across every stage of your creative process.
Harnessing Magnific
Discover Magnific AI’s intelligent upscaling and enhancement tools to streamline your workflow and deliver high-quality, polished visuals.
Enhancing with Nano Banana
Boost your Photoshop workflow with Nano Banana’s smart scripts, saving time on repetitive tasks and keeping your creativity focused.
Visualizing with Midjourney
Gain a practical understanding of Midjourney and learn how to generate, refine, and elevate visual concepts for design storytelling and presentation.
Modeling with Tripo 3D
Transform visual concepts into spatial models using Tripo 3D’s advanced generation tools — perfect for rapid form studies and design exploration.
Designing with Review Spaces
Accelerate design exploration with Review Spaces AI Tools for Photoshop, enabling rapid variations, precise editing, and faster visual iteration across your creative workflow.
Creating with Freepik
Bring ideas to life with Freepik’s advanced AI image and video tools — ideal for storytelling, spatial studies, and iterative design workflows.
Animating with Kling
Turn static visuals into cinematic animations with Kling’s advanced video generation tools, elevating your storytelling with AI-driven motion.
Material Creation
Creating Material Moodboards with Midjourney
In our AI Masterclass, the "Material Creation" section focuses on building visually compelling material moodboards using Midjourney. With the Creative Lighting Prompt Framework, you’ll learn how to clearly communicate design concepts and explore refined material combinations. This module shows how AI can help produce high-quality moodboards that elevate presentations and strengthen design storytelling.
Upscale & Enhance
Elevate Image Quality with Magnific
In the "Upscale & Enhance" section of our AI Masterclass, you’ll learn how to use Magnific to elevate the quality and realism of your visuals. This module shows you how to harness powerful upscaling and enhancement tools to transform images into high-resolution, professional-grade results that captivate and impress.
Smart Workflow
Enhancing Creative Efficiency with Nano Banana
In the "Smart Workflow" section of our AI Masterclass, you’ll discover how to streamline your Photoshop process using Nano Banana tools. Learn how to automate repetitive tasks, maintain precision, and keep your focus on the creative aspects of your work. This module ensures your design workflow stays efficient and sharp, giving you more time to push ideas forward.
Concept to Video
Transform Images into Motion with Kling
Learn how to build a seamless workflow from concept to video production. This module shows how to transform moodboards into compelling visuals — and evolve those visuals into cinematic animations using advanced generative tools. You’ll explore the process from generating imagery in Midjourney to creating smooth, storytelling-driven video sequences with Kling.
Visual Exploration
Design Faster with Review Spaces AI Tools
In the "Visual Exploration" section of the AI Masterclass, you’ll learn how to accelerate design production using Review Spaces AI Tools for Photoshop. This module demonstrates how AI-assisted tools can help generate variations, refine ideas, and streamline visual exploration directly within your design workflow. By integrating intelligent image tools inside Photoshop, teams can iterate faster, test multiple directions, and move from concept to refined visuals with greater speed and creative control.
Meet Your Instructor
Nikos Nikolopoulos
Founder & Creative Director, Creative Lighting
Nikos Nikolopoulos is the Founder & Creative Director of Creative Lighting, a consultancy specializing in architectural visualization, cinematic lighting, and AI-driven creative workflows. Known for blending artistic intuition with modern technology, Nikos has collaborated with world-renowned studios such as Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, Perkins & Will, Kilograph, Pureblink, and Assembly Studios, helping teams elevate their visual storytelling and design processes.
As a global educator and long-time collaborator of Chaos, Nikos teaches the principles of composition, lighting, mood, and storytelling through a unique lens that bridges timeless creative fundamentals with the rapidly evolving world of AI. Through workshops, masterclasses, and talks around the world, he inspires thousands of artists each year to think more cinematically, design with greater intention, and integrate AI tools into their creative workflows with clarity and confidence.
Alongside his educational work, Nikos develops innovative tools that support the future of creative production, including the AI-powered Review Spaces Photoshop integration, designed to help artists refine concepts, explore variations, and iterate more effectively. Through his work, he continues to encourage the global CG community to embrace creativity, experimentation, and the emerging possibilities of intelligent workflows.
AI Masterclass
Transform Your Studio's Creative Workflow with AI
Bespoke Training
Our AI Masterclass is a bespoke training experience designed for architecture, design, and visualization studios ready to integrate AI into their creative workflow. Depending on your team’s needs, sessions are available as a focused 2-hour Intro Workshop or a more in-depth 4-hour Full Masterclass. Through hands-on practice, live demonstrations and real-world examples, your team will explore powerful tools including ChatGPT, Midjourney, Freepik, Magnific, Tripo 3D, Kling, Nano Banana and Review Spaces AI Tools for Photoshop. Each session is tailored to your studio, with step-by-step demonstrations and dedicated time for team-specific questions, creative direction and workflow support.
Intro Workshop
📆 Schedule at your convenience
💻 Online training live on Zoom (2 hours)
🎟️ €2,500 per studio training session
✅ Includes a complimentary 60-minute post-training review session (one-time, online).
Live session delivered via Zoom. Your team selects the preferred date and time through our scheduling calendar.
Full Masterclass
📆 Schedule at your convenience
💻 Online training live on Zoom (4 hours)
🎟️ €4,000 per studio training session
✅ Includes a complimentary 60-minute post-training review session (one-time, online).
Live session delivered via Zoom. Your team selects the preferred date and time through our scheduling calendar.
Creative AI Support
🔁 Ongoing collaboration with a 3-month minimum
🎥 2-hour monthly deep review + AI workflow updates
🎟️ €500 per month (3-month collaboration term)
✅ Includes a 2-hour monthly creative/technical review plus ongoing guidance on AI tools, workflows and updates.
Billed as a single €1,500 partnership fee for the full 3-month term, covering all monthly reviews and ongoing support.
Not sure which option is right for your studio? Let’s talk.
Some of Our Clients
What People Are Saying
“The team immediately grew to a professional level in composition and storytelling after just a few days of training. As architects, we always value the ability to capture subtle lines and curvatures that may not be immediately visible but make a difference in a project—like lighting, wind, structural loads, circulation, and acoustic reflections. Nikos helped us uncover and visualize these hidden layers step by step, bringing new depth and quality to our work. The references he used during the session were exactly the ones our director admired and often talks about. After the training, we reviewed our work mounted in the room and could clearly articulate what could be improved—not just say “I don’t like it.” It’s been a pleasure to see our teammates’ work—and even their daily photos—reach a higher level.”
— Ben Kikkawa, Associate at Zaha Hadid Architects
