GUEST · EP 080 JAMEY GANNON
Jamey Gannon
AI creative director; runs the AI Creative Director course
On Fast Hours August 30, 2026
A 24 Year Old AI Creative Director Gives Away Her Playbook
ft. Jamey Gannon
Episode 80 brings on 24-year-old self-taught AI creative director Jamey Gannon, who runs the studio ADM and the AI Creative Director course. She demos Midjourney's new V8.2 Edit model live, changing wardrobe, camera angle, and typography on existing images, and concludes she'll use Nano Banana far less now that Midjourney can hold a face and vibe through edits. She also walks through her Figma-based mood-board process and her rule to still finish precision work in Photoshop.
- Midjourney's new V8.2 Edit model held Jamey's subject's face and vibe through edits where Nano Banana would drift; she says she'll use Nano Banana significantly less now.
- AI creative work is a full-stack skill, not a prompting trick: the best operators also run their proposals, emails, and business admin through an LLM.
- Mood boards can be layered for two different jobs: one sets blanket color and vibe, a second injects specific traits, like skin texture, that bleed through generations.
- Don't gate a client's tools: Jamey rebuilt a Flora shader as its own web tool so a client without Flora access could still use it.
Jamey Gannon, on the record
“This is really impressive though, that it's like maintaining her like pose. I'm like definitely gonna yeah, I'm gonna be using nano significantly less for sure.”
“It's actually not easy, fast, and cheap. It's actually really hard, which is why you need to like treat it like a skill.”
“But I was like, I don't want to like gate the experience there. So I like, let me see if I just build it myself.”
“It's literally the epitome of all your eggs are in one basket. All your eggs in like a time bombed basket of like AI layoffs. versus I have I have so many baskets.”