Apply your skills to real-world scenarios, monetization, and portfolio building. Take everything you’ve learned and turn it into a polished, market-ready portfolio piece—plus optional AI animation—while mastering style systems, brand creation, and presentation workflows.
What You’ll Learn in Module 3
Module 3 focuses on turning your Midjourney expertise into professional opportunities. Learn how to showcase your skills, monetize your work, and navigate the business side of AI creativity.
Personal Style Blueprinting: Rank community images, extract your unique style codes, and weave them into every creation.
Moodboard Mastery: Learn how to curate targeted moodboards that drive project outcomes—and build a reusable stock library for any client brief.
Video Animation Fundamentals: Get up and running with basic AI-driven animation techniques to add motion to your portfolio pieces.
Brand Creation Workflow: Step by step, combine prompts, style codes, and assets to build a brand identity from scratch.
Asset Management & Style-Code Refinement: Organize your Midjourney outputs into smart folders, refine shared style codes with peers, and streamline production.
Final Presentation Guidance: Fine-tune your project deliverables, craft compelling slide decks or one-pagers, and prepare for certificate eligibility.
Detailed Curriculum
Module 3: Professional AI Mastery & Portfolio Building
Personal Style & Moodboards for Creative Direction
- How to refine your visual style by ranking community images
- Creating moodboards for targeted brand or campaign outcomes
- Hands-on exercise: curate visuals for a mock client’s stock image library
- Combining personalization codes with parameter layering
From Still to Motion: AI Animation Techniques
- Intro to AI-powered video animation using tools like Kling
- How to add light movement for dynamic presentations
- Final Project Work: Begin portfolio/campaign development
Branding from Scratch: A Full Visual Identity Workflow
- Step-by-step guide to building a brand using Midjourney
- Cohesive use of previous techniques for logos, assets, and visuals
- Storytelling through consistent aesthetics and tone
Asset Organization + Final Presentation Prep
- Smart folder organization and project archiving
- Peer sharing: refining and exchanging style codes
- Final Q&A and guidance on your final project submission
- Final Project Deadline: June 20
Final Project: Portfolio Piece + Optional AI Animation ? Due: June 20
Bring together everything you’ve learned to create a client-ready, professional-level portfolio or campaign.
Choose One Direction:
- A product-focused social media campaign
- A themed visual concept series
- A branded visual identity concept
Deliverables:
- 4–8 Midjourney-generated visuals (portfolio quality)
- 1 moodboard (PDF or composite layout)
- 200-word written summary (concept + Midjourney usage)
- (Optional) Link to a short AI animation (max. 10 sec)
Submit by June 20 to qualify for your Certificate of Completion and showcase your AI-creative mastery.
About your Instructor
Margarida Barreto, Instructor & Bestselling Author
Margarida Barreto is a globally recognized AI creativity expert and the bestselling author of The MidJourney Expedition. With a background in visual storytelling and digital design, she has partnered with leading brands and creative agencies to craft high-impact marketing campaigns, immersive brand experiences, and award-winning concept art—all powered by generative AI. Her deep expertise spans prompt engineering, creative workflow orchestration, and advanced image-generation techniques using MidJourney v7 and beyond.
An enthusiastic educator and advocate for human-centered innovation, Margarida delivers personalized, workshop-style masterclasses that demystify complex AI tools and integrate them into real-world creative processes. Her hands-on sessions focus on efficient prompt workflows, narrative-driven image sequences, and seamless tool integrations, empowering designers, marketers, and storytellers to push the boundaries of what’s possible in AI-driven visual communication.
Prerequisite: Midjourney Basic Plan ($10)
