Sophie Arasse

Motion Designer et AI Artiste

Describe yourself as a prompt.

A mystical soul guided by a demanding aesthetic, where visual emotions must serve meaning and intent. A blend of angelic innocence, historical visual culture, and acute social awareness. Seeks to transform darkness into light and convey joyful emotions that nourish the soul. X-rays reality and strives to reveal the invisible forces that guide us.

What led you to AI, to the point of making it both your field of creation and of transmission?

An early adopter at heart. Innovative designs and never-before-seen visuals immediately catch my eye. How could anyone witness the wonders of AI videos generated with Stable Diffusion in the 2020s and not stop to explore them? After 20 years as an audiovisual instructor, diving into creative AI in the 2020s and adding creative AI courses to my training catalog felt like a natural progression.

How has AI changed the way you conceive, imagine or produce your work?

AI augments my abilities. It allows me to bring creative concepts that had been lying dormant in my mind to life and explore my own imagination as never before. AI helps these ideas blossom, opening the door to a deeper expression of my inner world. It also frees me from time-consuming, low-value tasks such as proofreading and creating presentation slides.

The misconception about AI you most often debunk in projects or training?

Start simply by writing prompts yourself before potentially expanding them with LLMs. Seventy percent of learners want to ask ChatGPT to write the perfect Midjourney prompt for them. That is a mistake. You end up with blocks of text that must then be dissected if you want to steer the result more precisely or identify what went wrong. Starting with simple prompts, written by hand using the right words, and then allowing yourself to be surprised by AI’s creativity works wonderfully. ✨

If you could only keep three AI tools for the rest of your career, which would they be?

Midjourney, Dreamina, and Nano Banana.

Where do you draw your inspiration and the substance you pass on when you step away from AI?

I draw a great deal of inspiration from browsing Midjourney’s image gallery. My eye has an insatiable appetite for the unknown. When it comes to teaching, my students inspire me enormously.

What are you working on right now?

I’m reworking the ending of my short film, ANIMA MUNDI; exploring Dreamina, which goes far beyond video generation; and finishing my new website through vibe coding with Google AI Studio.