Summary
Making a UGC ad normally means paying a creator, shipping product and hoping the footage is usable. This full course from Youri van Hofwegen shows how to produce a realistic user-generated-style video ad entirely with AI, using the OpenArt platform.
The workflow starts with a product asset. Using GPT Image 2.5 at 4K, the creator generates a ten-panel sheet of an invented energy drink called Pop Wire, spelling out the brand name letter by letter so the label text stays readable. A second image is a three-panel character sheet of a believable, imperfect-looking presenter, shot under flat lighting so it carries cleanly into video.
Both assets are then fed into Seedance 2.5 text-to-video, set to 9:16, 1080p and 30 seconds with audio generated in the same pass. A timestamped, seven-part prompt describes a phone-filmed locker room scene, so every cut is planned before generation. The result is a single 30-second ad with consistent character and product, though the video points out small flaws such as a can opening the wrong way. The course finishes by recreating the ad in other languages to reach multiple markets.
📺 Source: Youri van Hofwegen · Published September 30, 2026
🏷️ Format: Course Lesson
