Course Covers and Lesson Stills Without Stock Clichés

A course cover is a promise of tone

Education teams do not need unrestricted horror. They need consistent characters across a 12-week thumbnail grid. That is a photoshoot theme plus variations, not a new face every module.

This page is the Pixogen-specific version of the topic. Credit numbers below match the generate button in the studio as of August 2026. If a model ships a new badge, we update the routing note here within a day — that is the newsroom rule, not a landing-page rewrite.

Credit math

12 thumbnails ≈ 12–16 credits. One talking intro ≈ 6.

Credits never expire. Failed jobs refund automatically. Do not budget as if a missed render is gone. Packs start at 200 credits for $19.99; a launch week for a persona is usually cheaper than one stock-license bundle.

Pipeline on Pixogen

/use-cases/education. Talking avatar only for the instructor persona you own.

Internal links that belong on this job: the matching tool landing, the pipeline hub, and one glossary term. Do not leave a guide live without those three. Related reading lives in Learn and Academy, not in a footer dump.

Model routing

Flow 1. Nano Banana 2 if the cover includes readable course titles.

If you are choosing an engine for the first time, open /models/compare. Portraits, motion, lipsync and photoreal each have a different default. Wan 3.0 is the motion hero as of this writing; Nano Banana 2 still wins in-image text.

Mistakes that waste credits

• Illegible title text on Flow 1 — switch engine.

Publish checklist

1. Lock identity before you batch.
2. Write the credit total on the brief so the client sees the number before the job.
3. Export clean — no watermark — then brand in your editor.
4. Ping the changelog if this guide rode a model drop.

See /models/nano-banana-2, /pipelines/talking-avatar.