Leonardo AI Tutorial: From Concept to Cinematic Video

About this video

Garrick, in partnership with Leonardo AI, builds a fall coffee campaign end to end in Leonardo as an all-in-one creative studio. He starts in Flow State, Leonardo’s brainstorming tool, choosing style, lighting, shot type, and color theme — autumn for this campaign — plus 16 by 9 dimensions, and a prompt about warm natural light, rustic wood, and a cozy, calm mood. Flow State costs one token per image, and the free account’s 150 tokens allow many inspiration images; favorites can be downloaded or saved to the library, and file names double as prompts. In the image generator, model costs differ: Nano Banana starts at 160 tokens, Lucid Origin at 66 tokens, and Phoenix 0.9 at 24 tokens. He uses Lucid Origin with a Flow State image as a content reference (raising the cost to 69 tokens) to generate four photorealistic options. The chosen image is upscaled with Ultra from 1920x1088 to 3840x2176, then edited with Nano Banana for precise changes such as turning the mug into a white glazed ceramic mug with an Autumn Brew logo and adding coffee beans, and later a round vintage Autumn Brew Coffee Co. logo. Finally he upscales again and animates the still in the video tool, extending duration from 5 seconds to 10 seconds for a French press pouring shot, while warning that AI video can turn logo text to gibberish and produce odd hands because frames are regenerated rather than pixel-tracked.

Key takeaways

• Use Flow State to explore tone, color palette, lighting, and composition before generating final images; it costs one token per image
• Free accounts get 150 tokens; model costs vary, with Lucid Origin starting at 66 tokens and Nano Banana at 160 tokens in the example
• Use a Flow State image as a style or content reference, then generate four options and evaluate composition, lighting, and distortions
• Upscale with Ultra for photorealism before refining, and use Nano Banana for precise text, logo, and object edits that leave the rest intact
• For image-to-video, use detailed motion prompts and longer duration — 10 seconds instead of 5 in the example — and watch for logo text turning to gibberish

Episode details: published November 10, 2025 · 17:49 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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