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CoursesArchitectural DesignReverse Engineering with AI
Mar 21, 20267 lessonsBeginner
Architectural DesignFREE with Full AccessWorkshopMar 21, 2026Beginner7 lessons4h 27mAI Concept DesignAI RenderingAI 3D ModelingArchitectural Animation

Reverse Engineering with AI

Reverse Engineering with AI is a course that teaches designers to use reverse thinking to turn a single AI-generated image into ideas, sketches, 3D models, and animations. Students deconstruct an AI image using Krea Nodes and Realtime Editor and ChatGPT or Copilot as analytical tools, rebuild it into refined visuals and context boards with Midjourney and Formas.ai, convert results into clean, editable 3D models in Rhino, and produce final animations and a showreel with Morphic and Luma AI. The course is Beginner level and results in a complete project pipeline from a single image to a polished portfolio piece.

Learn from Christopher Noelle, Michael Holze
FREE with Full Access

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Christopher Noelle1 courseMichael Holze1 course

  • Mar. 21, 202613:00 - 18:00 (GMT)
  • 4 Hours 27 MinTotal duration
  • Lifetime accessRewatch anytime
  • BeginnerLevel
  • 50 seatsClass size
  • EnglishLanguage
  • EnglishSubtitles
  • 7 LessonsLessons
  • CertificateIncluded
  • 2 instructorsChristopher Noelle · Michael Holze

We see stunning designs created with AI every day, but how do we turn them into our own visual language and stand out from the masses?

In this workshop, we focus on connected AI workflows that move seamlessly from one tool to the next, showing you how to build a personal, flexible pipeline instead of relying on isolated prompts. Using a single AI-generated image as a starting point, we rewind the process: breaking it down, analyzing it, and reconstructing it step by step through an intensive, hands-on AI case study.

This “Reverse Thinking” approach takes the final image back to its possible origins, revealing new directions, alternative ideas, and creative decisions along the way. You’ll learn how to extract meaningful steps that go far beyond prompting, and how to chain different AIs together to develop a complete project and even an entire portfolio from one idea.

Along the way, we introduce new features and unconventional workflows not only from the usual AI tools, but also from emerging platforms and hybrid techniques that can become highly relevant for your next project. The focus is not on a single platform but on creating a connected workflow and placing human vision at the center of the process.

  • 01

    Build connected AI workflows using Krea Nodes & Realtime Editor

  • 02

    Reverse-engineer images using ChatGPT / Copilot as analytical design tools

  • 03

    Create context boards, styles, and timelapse visuals with Formas

  • 04

    Generate, refine, and train visual assets using Midjourney

  • 05

    Turn AI images into clean, editable 3D models in Rhino

  • 06

    Expand designs through parametric thinking, simulations, and optimization

  • 07

    Develop animations and visual narratives with Morphic & Lumalabs

  • 08

    Enhance and adapt visuals using Adobe Photoshop with AI

MidjourneyKrea.AIRhinoceros 3DLuma AIFormas.ai

From the first idea to moods, sketches, renderings, 3D models, 3D printing, animations, and finally a polished showreel, this workshop guides you through the entire creative pipeline using a hands-on case study. We share the complete workflow we’ve developed to create a project from scratch to finish, making every step transparent and applicable to your own work.

We combine a range of AI tools, including Krea (Nodes & Realtime Editor), Formas (rendering styles, Freeform Studio, and 3D modeling), Midjourney, Morphic, and Lumalabs for animation, alongside Rhino for 3D conversion and optimization, and Autodesk tools for simulation and performance testing. Together, these form a cross-media workflow that bridges concept, design, and production.

For us, it’s not about mastering a single AI. It’s about understanding how tools connect, how workflows evolve, and how human vision and authorship remain at the center of the process, guiding the machine rather than being led by it.

Program:

  • Introduction to the workshop concept and the “Reverse Thinking” approach
  • Analysis of a single AI-generated image as the starting point
  • Reverse-engineering the image back to moods, sketches, and ideas
  • Creating visual content using connected AI tools (image, video, and animation)
  • Expansion into parametric design, simulations, and technical refinement
  • Creation of animations and motion sequences with different camera movements
  • Compilation of results into a final presentation, showreel, or project output

7 Lessons4h 27m

Christopher Noelle
Christopher NoelleVerified Account
1 Course|5.0
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Chris is a pioneering XR artist who has been shaping the digital art landscape since the mid-1990s. With more than 25 years of experience as a visual artist, he has consistently pushed theboundaries of immersive technology, combining projection art and analog techniques with innovationto create captivating cross-media reality experiences.His work, which is based on a deep understanding of both the digital and physical worlds, inspiresand redefines what is possible in the field of creative thinking by using cross-media art indifferent directions. From motiongraphics to architecture, to street art, to lightpaintingphotography over to animation, film, and VFX, to mapping projection, to AI art, to audiovisualworks and sounddesign, to illustration and graphic design- for him, it´s a full circle.Specialized in working with: Krea, Midjourney, Adobe CS, Formas, Google AI Studio, LumalabsMorphic, Axidraw Penplotter, Udio, and Ableton.

Michael Holze
Michael HolzeVerified Account
1 Course|5.0
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Michael Holze is an architect and head of Architecture at Berlin University of Applied Sciences. Since the early 1990s, Professor Michael Holze has been a leading pioneer in the architectural landscape, known for his innovative design and forward-thinking approach. Over his three-decade career, he has made significant contributions to the field, combining functionality with artistic vision. As a professor, he shares his wealth of knowledge and experience, inspiring the next generation of architects to think creatively and responsibly about the built environment in which we live. Specialized in working with: Autodesk, Rhino, Stable Diffusion, ArchiCad, Midjourney, Adobe CS

4.7·33
4.7avg·3 Ratings
3 Reviews
KrasimirAug 16, 20264.0out of 5

Good course

Ammar AlmusaeedAug 3, 20265.0out of 5

Nice!

Walter Patrick SmithMar 23, 20265.0out of 5

Really different approach to Ai

Krasimir
Krasimir
Aug 16, 2026

Good course

Ammar Almusaeed
Ammar Almusaeed
Aug 3, 2026

Nice!

Walter Patrick Smith
Walter Patrick Smith
Mar 23, 2026

Really different approach to Ai

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