Forge Academy

Learn to build AI influencers, step by step

Free, practical tutorials that walk through the real product workflow — from training a consistent persona to shipping UGC ads, motion clips and a month of content.

01Beginner · 15 min

Train your first AI model

Training a custom AI model is a one-time 720-credit job built on a reference set of 8–20 rights-cleared photos. Variety in angles, lighting, and expressions matters more than photo count — and if a training run fails, the credits are refunded automatically.

Open the guide

02Beginner · 10 min

Your first AI photoshoot with Forge Styles

Pick a Forge Style, describe only the scene — your trained model supplies the identity — and generate. Images cost 12 credits at 720p, 14 at 1080p, 16 at 2K, and 20 at 4K, and failed renders are refunded automatically.

Open the guide

03Intermediate · 15 min

Create UGC product ads that look native

UGC product photos cost 15 credits per image. Pick a UGC Forge Style, generate 5–10 product-in-hand variants per hook, then render each winning concept in 9:16, 1:1, and 4:5 before exporting to your ads manager.

Open the guide

04Intermediate · 10 min

Turn stills into video without wasting credits

Image-to-video costs 300 credits for a 5-second clip and 600 for 10 seconds — roughly 20 to 50 times the price of a still. Animate only proven winners: pick a top-performing image, write a short motion prompt, and start with 5 seconds.

Open the guide

05Beginner · 8 min

Organize collections and export client-ready campaigns

Create one collection per campaign, tag assets as you generate, curate a finals set, and export the whole collection as a single ZIP from its detail view — no per-image downloads and no messy handoffs.

Open the guide

06Advanced · 8 min

Seeds, retries and refunds: iterate deliberately

Every render records a seed, and the same seed with the same prompt and settings reproduces the same image exactly. Iterate by locking the seed and changing one variable at a time — and remember failed or filtered generations refund automatically, so you only pay for delivered images.

Open the guide

07Intermediate · 12 min

Plan a month of content from one persona

A realistic 30-day month — about 20 feed images at 1080p (280 credits), 8 UGC ads (120), and 4 five-second clips (1,200) — costs roughly 1,600 credits, comfortably inside the Starter plan's 3,000 monthly credits.

Open the guide

Learn by doing

Every guide maps to a live product workflow. Start with 100 free credits — no card required — and follow along with showcase models.

Start free Open Help Center