About us

Project Odyssey is an AI Filmmaking initiative to unite the creators, communities, and companies across the industry. Through this program, we hope to:

  • Foster opportunities for both AI technologists and traditional filmmakers to get hands on, providing free education and resources regardless of background or experience.
  • Support creators with monetary resources, not just exposure, to create sustainable career opportunities so that AI can augment creativity, not replace it.
  • Showcase how AI can democratize the filmmaking process, breaking down barriers for those who traditionally haven't been included in the conversation.
  • Spotlight educators and innovators, especially from the open-source community, who've pushed the medium forward and have uplifted those just starting their creative journey.
  • Legitimize AI filmmaking to mainstream audiences by producing stories with amazing visuals AND impactful stories, not just one or the other.

Our Sponsors:

This competition would not be possible without our sponsors, who've generously donated their resources to support the Project Odyssey initiative and the AI Film creative community.

Civitai - Title Sponsor

Civitai is the home of open-source generative AI, whose mission is to make tools and resources universally accessible. Offering model hosting, image/video generation, and model training services, Civitai has grown to become a community of 6.5M monthly active members, bringing together a vibrant collective of artists, developers, and filmmakers focused on growing the creator ecosystem.

ElevenLabs - Title Sponsor

ElevenLabs is a voice AI research & deployment company with a mission to make content universally accessible in any language & voice. ElevenLabs creates the most realistic, versatile and contextually-aware AI audio, providing the ability to generate speech in hundreds of new and existing voices in 29 languages. As a technology research company, ElevenLabs is at the forefront of developing new cutting-edge voice AI. They deploy the most advanced models and features accessible via web app or API to a user base from creators to publishers and beyond.

KLING AI - Title Sponsor

KLING AI platform, a next-generation one-stop AI creation platform, boasts powerful AI image and video generation capabilities. KLING AI sparks creativity with prompts and images, crafting images and videos that perfectly simulate the physical world, featuring advanced text comprehension, intricate detailing, and a range of styles.

Lambda Labs - Title Sponsor

Our cloud, workstations, and servers power engineers and researchers at the forefront of human knowledge. Our customers include Intel, Microsoft, Amazon, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford, Harvard, Caltech, and the Department of Defense. Lambda gives your team instant access to the compute you need to build and deploy Artificial Intelligence. That's why the greatest enterprises, startups, and research labs in the world build with Lambda.

Viggle - Title Sponsor

Viggle AI lets users to specify the motion they want characters to take on via our 3D-video foundation model, JST. With Viggle, creators, brands, and filmmakers to seamlessly replace characters, replicate movements, and bring their ideas to life with ease.

Realdreams - Gold Sponsor

Situated in the vibrant heart of London, Realdreams is more than just a creative studio - we're a community. With a keen focus on AI-driven content production, our team crafts digital narratives that truly resonate. Our passion extends beyond the screen, as we bring together a diverse community of creators, thinkers, and AI enthusiasts. From innovative content development to engaging workshops, our services are designed to inspire, inform, and captivate.

Minimax & Hailou - Gold Sponsor

MiniMax is a leading global technology company and one of Asia's pioneers of large language models (LLMs). Our mission is to build a world where intelligence thrives with everyone.

Hailou by Minimax is a powerful AI-driven video generation engine. From turning simple text into vibrant, professional-quality videos to transforming static images into dynamic visual stories, the AI does it all. Just enter your script or upload images, and let Hailuo AI handle the rest.

Hedra - Gold Sponsor

Hedra is a pioneering video foundation model company building a full-stack creation studio capable of control, emotion, and creative intelligence.

Nebius - Gold Sponsor

Nebius is an AI-centric cloud platform built for intensive AI workloads. Nebius builds full-stack infrastructure for AI, including large-scale GPU clusters, cloud platforms and tools and services for developers.

RunPod - Gold Sponsor

RunPod is a cloud computing platform that helps developers build and deploy AI applications.

Higgsfield - Gold Sponsor

Higgsfield AI is pioneering the ultimate co-pilot for storytellers. With their groundbreaking multi-agent creative AI platform, adapt a story idea into a fully produced video—all in one interface. From scriptwriting to editing, Higgsfield’s AI agents handle every step of production, giving creators the power to bring their visions to life effortlessly.

ThinkDiffusion - Gold Sponsor

ThinkDiffusion is a cloud platform that makes the vast global ecosystem of open source AI art tools like Stable Diffusion accessible to all, without the need for pricey equipment and technical know-how. Learn, experiment and have fun with your private & personal art lab in the cloud.

Cartesia - Silver Sponsor

Cartesia is a premium text-to-speech service that is both developer-first and perfect for real-time conversation use cases, specializing in Industry-Leading Latency, Realistic Voices, and Accurate Pronunciation.

Sync - Silver Sponsor

Sync is a research company working on cutting-edge AI video lip sync solutions for animators, developers, and video editors . Crafting a world where every video can be shot in a single take.

Secret Level - Silver Sponsor

Secret Level is a next-generation entertainment studio where storytelling meets cutting-edge technology. As the first AI-native production company, we create groundbreaking content across commercials, TV, film, gaming, and immersive platforms. By blending generative AI with human creativity, we deliver innovative campaigns and original IP that redefine what’s possible in modern production—fast, efficient, and endlessly imaginative.

Salad - Silver Sponsor

Salad allows gamers to earn rewards from their PCs. We turn your GPU power into credits you can spend on items like subscriptions, games, gift cards, and more from our curated storefront. Our applications run high-performance computing jobs using GPU-accelerated containers (such as computer simulations and generative AI training and inference), stream bandwidth, and mine cryptocurrency. They put your idle PC resources to work.

Paddle - Silver Sponsor

Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a merchant of record for our customers, taking away 100% of the pain of payments fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, simpler, and above all, way better.

neural frames - Silver Sponsor

neural frames is an AI video synthesizer that empowers users to create audio-reactive AI visuals from text prompts. With a refined interface that offers unrivaled control over generated animations and the ability to train custom models, neural frames provides a unique creative experience. Fast cloud GPUs ensure the platform is widely accessible, making it the go-to tool for musicians, artists, and creators seeking to push the boundaries of visual expression.

ComfyUI Community Summit - Silver Sponsor

​Comfy Community Summit (CCS) is a community-driven generative AI event series exploring topics on ComfyUI and beyond. It pioneers the concept of bringing together open-source AI developers, researchers and artists.

Leonardo - Bronze Sponsor

Leonardo transcends the conventional AI toolset by providing a robust and dynamic platform for creative production. They marry cutting edge generative AI technology with unparalleled creator control, reinforcing human creativity instead of replacing it. In every step of the content generation process, their platform affords granular control, ensuring your creative vision is flawlessly brought to life. Leveraging a slew of cutting-edge backend features, Leonardo excels in model fine-tuning, prompt adherence, training speed, inference pace, and multi-image prompting capabilities.

Genmo - Bronze Sponsor

Genmo is a frontier AI lab developing the best open video generation models. Create any video, possible or impossible, using Mochi 1.

Curious Refuge - Bronze Sponsor

Curious Refuge is a home for unlocking your inner storyteller using the latest tools. We truly believe we are on the cusp of a new era in storytelling. We believe in giving back to the creative community. As a result, our videos, blog content, & interactive courses are designed to help inspire curiosity and help you achieve your creative potential.

LTX Studio & Video by Lighttricks - Bronze Sponsor

LTX Studio is a AI-powered visual storytelling engine: from concept to delivery in one seamless platform. Generate a script or storyboard and instantly turn it into a vivid project.

LTX Video is an open-source AI model capable specializing in Real-time Generation, Unmatched Video Quality, and Seamless Integration with ComfyUI.

Comfy Org - Bronze Sponsor

ComfyOrg is a AI image and video company behind ComfyUI and developing supporting tools like ComfyUI Manager, custom node registry, frontend, cli, automated CI/CD, and public documentation.

CogVideoX - Bronze Sponsor

CogVideoX is an open-source text-to-video generation model focused on creating more coherent videos aligned with a prompt. It achieves this using several methods. A 3D variational autoencoder that compresses videos spatially and temporally, improving compression rate and video accuracy.an expert transformer block to help align text and video, and a 3D full attention module for capturing and creating spatially and temporally accurate videos.

Purple Smart - Bronze Sponsor

Purple Smart is a foundational model startup bringing characters to life, by enabling the creation of multi-modal intelligent agents across Intelligence, Audio / Voice, and Visual Experience. Purple Smart is behind the wildly popular foundational model Pony Diffusion V6 is a versatile SDXL finetune capable of producing stunning visuals of various characters and their interactions based on simple natural language prompts.

SAGA - Bronze Sponsor

SAGA is the first and best Screenwriting and Storyboarding app powered by fine-tuned versions of the latest and greatest Generative AI models designed for film outputs, including GPT-4, Claude 3.5, and Luma Dream Machine. AI Short Films and even Music Videos do better in competitions with developed stories that captivate the viewer, with compelling characters and planned out cinematography. SAGA gives you the best ideas and lets you do it all in one place without the need to purchase a range of AI tools plus apps like Final Draft or Storyboarder to put it all together.

Playhouse - Bronze Sponsor

Animate 2D or 3D characters with AI. Type, or turn on your camera and perform. No more rigging 3D characters. Generate 3D assets, Just type or upload images, we make it 3D. Control every element in your 3D scenes.

FBRC.ai - Bronze Sponsor

FBRC.ai serves the media and entertainment industry by bringing together startups, creators, and academics to build tools for the future of content production. Through a combination of deep technical knowledge, years of entertainment industry expertise, and a broad community of creators and makers, we research the latest in AI and emerging technologies, build tools with product-pipeline fit, create productions that tap into AI efficiencies, and educate the industry on operationalizing AI workflows ethically.

AILA - Bronze Sponsor

The AI LA Community is a non-profit organization supporting the research, development, ethical application, and public education of artificial intelligence and frontier technologies through media, events, and workforce development in the greater Los Angeles region since 2016.

Playbook - Bronze Sponsor

Playbook is a diffusion based engine for 3D scenes that leverages ComfyUI for image and video generation.

Tripo - Bronze Sponsor

Tripo AI is a generative 3D model launched by VAST that can generate textured 3D mesh models in 8 seconds and a detailed one within 2 minutes. Furthermore, Tripo also develops auto-rigging, animation, and stylization, in order to make generated models more pipeline-ready. In March 2024, VAST and Stability AI jointly released the open-source TripoSR 3D model, which has been hugely successful globally. Meanwhile, Tripo API is well-integrated with ComfyUI for iteration and controllable pipelines. Tripo AI also has a viral 3D creator/developer community. The ultimate goal for Tripo is to make everyone a super creator in the upcoming 3D era.

Morph Studio - Bronze Sponsor

Morph Studio is an innovative AI-driven platform that revolutionizes video production by integrating storyboard design with advanced AI models. It features capabilities such as text-to-video, image-to-video, video style transfer, and advanced lip-sync. This combination helps users draft and produce professional-grade video content, simplifying sophisticated video creation and making it intuitive for creators at every skill level.

Domo AI - Bronze Sponsor

DomoAI is your go-to AI tool for unleashing your creativity on Discord! With DomoAI, you can effortlessly transform ordinary videos into stunning masterpieces in various styles, from anime and 3D cartoons to paper art and more. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just looking for some creative fun, our server is the perfect place to unleash your imagination. From crafting creative videos and design elements to creating memes and avatars, DomoAI has all your creative needs covered.

Magnific - Bronze Sponsor

An advanced AI tool for image upscaling, transformation, and generation. Whether enhancing details or reimagining concepts, Magnific.ai unlocks limitless creative possibilities with precision.

Freepik - Bronze Sponsor

Freepik is a tech company that provides easy-to-use AI tools to create and edit any type of audiovisual content with unbeatable results.

Haiper - Bronze Sponsor

Haiper is a video and image AI platform building its own powerful foundation model. Haiper's next-gen 2.0 model generates hyper-realistic and stunning images and videos that can be enhanced and extended.

fal - Bronze Sponsor

fal.ai is the fastest way to run diffusion models with ready-to-use AI inference, training APIs, and UI Playgrounds.

Rubbrband - Bronze Sponsor

Rubbrband is the one stop shop for image generation, video generation, and model training.

Banodoco - Bronze Sponsor

Banodoco is the premier AI Animation and Video creator community pushing cutting edge workflows, content, and competition.

zero1cine - Bronze Sponsor

Dive into a world where humans create and machines dream, blurring the lines between brains and bits. Discover a curated selection of the best AI Films at zero1cine.

Machine Cinema - Bronze Sponsor

Machine Cinema lives inside a once in a generation moment when creators of all stripes are embracing a constant flow of new possibilities to bring their visions to life, to share their stories with us, to express their imaginations in ways previously impossible. Generative AI as a new palette for filmmaking is the Renaissance of our time, birthing the careers of a new era of raconteurs and visionaries, inspiring a new language of possibility for all who want to pick up a paint brush and try it for themselves. Machine Cinema is here to document this, and to invite you to participate.

AICU - Bronze Sponsor

AICU is a US and Japan based start-up company founded in 2023. We are a creators' union working in the creative AI field based on our vision of "creating people who create" with generative AI creativity. Our mission is to promote social implementation of the technology through the development of generative AI knowledge media and international scientific communication, and to foster an ecosystem of creators and people who enjoy generative AI media in the new era. Together with us, let's create the future of creative AI!

AI Korea Community - Bronze Sponsor

AI KOREA COMMUNITY is Korea’s largest generative AI hub, empowering everyday creators to reshape their world through cutting-edge innovation. Proudly rooted in the heart of Korea, we spark new ideas, share breakthroughs, and co-create a future where AI thrives in daily life.

Our Judges: To Be Announced the week of December 16th!

We've gathered an expert panel of judges across the AI Filmmaking Industry and our Sponsors to select the winners of each category.

Judging Panel

Name (@handle)
Title (CEO, Civitiai or AI Filmmaker)

2-3 Sentence biography about the judge. 2-3 Sentence biography about the judge. 2-3 Sentence biography about the judge.2-3 Sentence biography about the judge.

Willonius Thatcher
(@Avocado Papi)
AI Musician
Curt Cameruci
(Flosstradamus)
DJ and AI Investor
Julien Durand (@midjourney.man)
AI Filmmaker
Sebastian Kamph
AI Educator
Bryan Kim ()
AI Investor
Eric Solorio (enigmatic_e)
AI Filmmaker and VFX Artist
Eliza Tan
AI Filmmaker
Claire Xue
AI Influencer
Jack Maltby
AI Influencer
Yigit Kirca
AI Influencer
Nem Perez
AI Influencer
Yonatan Dor
(@theDorBrothers)
AI Influencer
Jason Zada
()
AI Influencer
POM
Founder of Banodoco
Eric Shamlin
()
AI Influencer
Michael Lingelbach
(@)
CEO, Hedra
Alex Golubitsky
Director New Products, Nebius
RUNPOD
Director New Products, Nebius
Yerzat Dulat
CRO, Higgsfield
Matt Shih
Co-Founder, ThinkDiffusion
Karan Goel
CEO, Cartesia
Manan Dua
Design Lead, Sync
Matt Shih
Co-Founder, ThinkDiffusion
Matt Shih
Co-Founder, ThinkDiffusion
Matt Shih
Co-Founder, ThinkDiffusion
Matt Shih
Co-Founder, ThinkDiffusion
Tyler Bernabe (@jboogx.creative)
Head of Content Marketing, Civitai
Mati Staniszewski
CEO, ElevenLabs
Xintao Wang
Senior Staff Researcher, Kling
Hang Chu
CEO, Viggle
Ari Kalfayan
Head of Business Development, Lambda Labs
Shawn Rushefsky
Lead Solutions Engineer, Salad
Justin Hackney
Founder of Realdreams
Nicolai Klemke
Founder and CEO at Neural Frames
Jo Zhang
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