Directing and cinematography

Shot design, lenses, camera movement, lighting, composition, blocking and continuity

• sourceExample-driven Virtual Cinematography by Learning Camera Behaviors (SIGGRAPH 2020)
• sourceShot Designer (Hollywood Camera Work)
• sourceBlender 5.2 LTS Manual: Cameras
• sourceFilm Analysis guide (Yale Film Studies)
• sourceSasha Kasiuha on why the image still needs an author
• sourcePURGA: Cannes Lions Bronze winner builds AI film worlds with Higgsfield
• sourceInside Higgsfield #1: How We Built Cinema Studio
• sourceMeet Cinema Studio 4.0
• sourceCinema Studio 3.5 full tutorial
• sourceFull AI Car Commercial Tutorial (Higgsfield)
• sourceThree-point lighting (Wikipedia)
• sourceカメラワーク (Japanese Wikipedia: camera work terminology)
• sourceContinuity editing (Wikipedia)
• sourceCinematic Cameras in Unreal Engine (Cine Camera Actor documentation)
• sourceCinemachine (Unity package documentation)
• sourceUniversal Translator: Arrival (American Cinematographer, Bradford Young ASC)
• sourceAmerican Cinematographer / theasc.com
• sourceShotOnWhat? Movies and Television
• sourceShotBench: expert-level cinematic understanding benchmark for VLMs
• sourceCinematography: Theory and Practice, 4th ed. (Blain Brown, Routledge)
• sourceRoger A. Deakins official site (forums and Looking at Lighting breakdowns)
• sourceGenDoP: auto-regressive camera trajectory generation as a Director of Photography (ICCV 2025)
• sourceNo-Nonsense Filmmaking (open textbook, LMU)
• sourceCineTechBench: cinematographic technique understanding and generation benchmark
• sourceE.T. the Exceptional Trajectories: text-to-camera-trajectory generation with character awareness
• sourceCameraBench: understanding camera motions in any video
• sourceCamera Trajectory Generation: a survey of methods, metrics and future directions
• sourceBritish Cinematographer magazine
• sourceGenDoP: Auto-regressive Camera Trajectory Generation as a Director of Photography
• sourceObservations on film art (David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson)
• sourceHow To Direct an AI Short Film Like a Filmmaker (Santiago, full workflow + prompts)
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