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Filmmaker • AI Creator • Visual Futurist

I don't justcreate content.I build worlds.

Made with AI

No camera. No crew.

  • AI-generated image of a cinema camera erupting in vivid paint splashes

    The Future of Storytelling

  • AI-generated portrait dissolving into vivid colour splashes

    Color Splash

  • AI-generated figure in a rust-coloured suit in a neon-lit corridor

    Neon Corridor

  • AI-generated portrait of a young athlete in a basketball jersey

    Jersey

  • Stylised pop-art portrait of Ric Mathis in an arcade

    Arcade

Editorial

Covers

Cover features shot for Rolling Out.

  • Rolling Out cover featuring boxer Claressa Shields in a black beaded gown

    Claressa Shields

  • Rolling Out cover featuring producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis in black suits and hats

    Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis — Legends Whose Music Lives Forever

  • Rolling Out cover featuring producer Zaytoven in black against a dark background

    Zaytoven — Trap Music Innovator

  • Rolling Out cover featuring broadcaster Big Tigger in a black shirt and red tie

    Big Tigger — Leads a Game-Changing Movement for HBCU Athletes

  • Rolling Out cover featuring rapper Trae Tha Truth

    Trae Tha Truth — 5 Truths Behind the Hustle

  • Rolling Out cover featuring the OMG Girlz in school-uniform styling

    OMG Girlz — Return With TEA

  • Rolling Out cover featuring rapper Bay Swag

    Bay Swag — Finds Light in the Shadows of Damaged Thoughts

  • Rolling Out tribute cover for Mickey Lee, 1990 to 2025

    A Tribute to Mickey Lee

01Selected Work

Stories that move people

All Work

7 projects shown.

Ric Mathis with Claressa Shields beside a display of her Rolling Out cover

The Creator

Twenty years behind
the camera

Award-winning filmmaker, photographer and FAA Part 107 drone pilot. Now building the same stories with AI.

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The prompt library

22 prompts for AI film work — establishing shots, camera movement, lighting, character consistency, interview coverage — each with a note on why it works. Copy any of them and go. Nothing to sign up for.

  • Establishing Shots
  • Camera Movement
  • Lighting & Mood
  • Character Consistency
  • Documentary & Interview
  • B-Roll & Texture
  • Voice & Sound
  • Titles & Graphics
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Presidential Lifetime Achievement Awards

Interactive

The AI Lab

Build a sample cinematic concept. Choose four things and the lab returns a creative direction — the same way a first conversation with Ric usually starts.

Genre
Mood
Visual Style
Story Theme
Sample direction

Working title

STILL HERE

An Atlanta noir survival story following a filmmaker who transforms a near-death experience into an immersive AI documentary, photographed in black and white with red heartbeat accents, aerial city imagery, documentary interviews, and augmented-reality layers.

  • Monochrome grade with a single red hold — the heartbeat, and nothing else
  • Aerial establishing shots to place the city as a character
  • Emotional register: held one beat longer than is comfortable in every scene.

Suggested format — Documentary short or place-based AR experience

Build This Project With Ric

The lab composes directions from a curated set of combinations. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a finished treatment.

Contact

Let's create somethingthat doesn't exist yet.

Tell us what you are imagining. Ric Mathis Ai will help you turn it into a cinematic experience.

Studio
Atlanta, Georgia

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