JOEY — these new Claude skills are saving me hundreds (skills and prompts in description)

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The updated Claude Skills are here — free download, sample prompts, full pipeline walkthrough: 💡 Download updated skills here: https://tinyurl.com/claude-skills-2-0

THANKS FOR 12K. Can’t believe what we’re building here but I’m just as stoked as you are. And I wanted to get this update out fast for all of you. Hopefully I went more in-depth that’s helpful? Let me know!

I rebuilt the two skills that run my entire AI cinema workflow: banana-pro-director-2.0 (every still) and cinema-worldbuilder-2.0 (every Seedance video) — and this is the breakdown of what changed, why it changed, and how to actually use them in your own work. The skills, the sample prompts, and the full write-up are free at the link above. No course. No upsell. Take them.

The three updates that did the most:

→ Volumetric depth baked into every prompt by default. Haze, particulate, light shafts, atmospheric falloff. This is the single biggest thing separating AI footage that reads real from AI footage that reads AI.

→ Mid-grey seamless backgrounds for character builds instead of pure white. Gives the model a value to anchor skin tones against and kills the plastic look that white seamless creates.

→ Brand names cut from the camera and lighting language. No more ARRI Alexa, no more Panavision, no more Aputure fixture names. The skill writes behavior instead allowing faster prompting and more precise control, less jargon the tool has to sift through.

This whole pipeline built OUR TURN — the CTRL music video that dropped last week. Same five tools, smarter system on top:

Claude Skills (prompting) → Nano Banana Pro (stills) → Seedance 2.0 (video) → Topaz Video (upscale) → Suno (music) → Higgsfield UI

If you’re still raw-prompting in 2026 you’re going to lose to people who aren’t. Build your own. Mine encode mine. Yours should encode yours.

Disclosure: every good video will still need multiple takes and generations, these skills will not eliminate having to spend hundreds and thousands of credits

Key Insights

Oh, my god, I’m so sorry. >> [music] >> I think I just made the biggest update to the skills that are already helping thousands of you generate better AI video content while spending less credits. And we broke 10,000 subscribers in the span of 7 days. What the >> [screaming] >> 10,000? I was about to >> Yeah, yeah. He’s going to share all about how to use these new skills to prompt us how we even stepped into the studio. What? Like he didn’t leave the door open? Okay, let him cook. Anyways, so earlier I started filming this whole breakdown video on my latest video about the new updated [music] skills, but it wasn’t enough. I’m new to this and I really want to give more value than just a repeat of the last video that you guys absolutely blew up for no reason and I appreciate every single one of you. So, today I’m going to go a lot deeper. >> That’s what she said. Uh if you’re okay with that. Hi, hi. I’m back as a fan favorite. >> [music] >> Or did you want Mira in here? Hello. I just want to say briefly before we get any further, I know Joey’s not going to keep most of you. I mean, you’re looking at this 18-minute video going, “Yeah, I don’t have time for that.” We won’t keep you too, too long, but good AI videos take some learning and we’re trying to do the hard parts for you. >> It’s still going to be hard. >> Two big things that changed [music] in the skills that are giving us way more realistic skin and cinema are going to be shared. So, please, [music] please stay here. Okay, bye for now. Oh, that’s good. Do you want to figure it all out for yourself? I’ve got the skills and a brief breakdown linked below, but I’m hoping you’ll stay for the full workflow and the biggest update to the skills that I think no one’s talking about in the AI video space. But, before I say anything, this is where I’m going to say it’s sponsored by no one. It’s sponsored by no one. This video is not sponsored. >> I had so many people thinking the last video was sponsored. Guys, if I make a sponsored video, I’ll be real and straight with you. Yes, I’ve had so many offers. >> Right now, I’m doing all of this for the love of the game, truly. Learning, sharing, growing together. I’ll only do one if it’s truly good enough and valuable for all of us, not just a quick cash grab. So, let’s dive in. >> [music] [music] [laughter] >> I don’t know why we decided to film all this at 4:00 a.m. >> [laughter] >> They’re delirious. So, that’s just a brief clip of the latest video and you can watch it here later. Unfortunately, we got slapped with a restriction from a YouTube bot that I couldn’t dispute. So, it’s not getting pushed through the algorithm, which sucks because I kind of spent a lot of time on it. Um, but that’s besides the point. Before I get any further, you’re also probably thinking back to earlier with Zara. Was she She’s not. Is she She is AI. All of them are AI. My very real girlfriend has a real job. I have a real job, but So, I’ve got AI to help me. Before I get into the skills, I’ll briefly explain how I’m doing that bit. And honestly, this feels like a separate video, but I’m going to do it fast. And if you want a full like 9-minute version, let me know in the comments. So, real quickly, I start out with the frame of me here. I’m giving enough room for the character to fill the scene. I go ahead and grab the character with their outfit sheet, spin up a script, and send it through Claude. Claude takes the reference of me and the character, so it knows what to build off of, the camera angles, all of it. I tell it to keep the frame locked. the script through the skills, paste the prompt, generate the scene, run it through Topaz to upscale, and I place it on top of my existing footage in the timeline, mask it off if needed, and there you have it. It takes a bit of thinking and timing, and this is why I think AI will never be just [music] as simple as a

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Chapters

• 00:00 — intro
• 00:23 — zara/mira interrupt
• 02:07 — MV showcasing skills used
• 03:37 — placing AI characters in your own space
• 05:12 — AI vs. Real Cinema (depth)
• 06:13 — using the skills (character)
• 07:34 — Soul Cinema vs. NBPro vs. GPT-2
• 08:39 — the outfit (and outfit replacement)
• 10:55 — 6-panel char. sheet
• 11:20 — building the world plate (can skip)
• 12:03 — building the scenes (Seedance 2.0)
• 13:08 — why ref sheets matter (or don’t)
• 14:00 — MOST important take away
• 16:04 — take it from 70 to 90
• 16:25 — the edit bay