Categories

Narrative

From your perspective as a storyteller, make a film that has both strong characters and an impactful narrative that can resonate with audiences.

Music Video

Create a music video or visualizer that complements the mood and theme of the song.

Marketing & Advertisement

Develop a convincing spec advertisement or commercial to spotlight a brand or product.

Additional requirements:
- Must be under 60 seconds in length

Trailer

Bring your vision to life with a teaser trailer for an original TV or film concept.

Additional requirements:
- Must be under 2 minutes 30 seconds in length

Rendering & VFX

Rotoscope input footage to showcase AI's capabilities as a VFX render engine.

Social Media

Create a shortform video or meme to go viral on social media.

Additional requirements:
- Under 90 seconds in length
- 9:16 Vertical Aspect Ratio

Open Format

Experiment with video art, an interactive film, an animated storyboard, or something else that doesn’t fit into the other categories.

Behind-The-Scenes

Spotlight your story as a creator, your workflows, and the inspiration behind your Project Odyssey submission.

Additional requirements:
- Must be about a film you've submitted to Project Odyssey Season 2

Sponsor Awards

Use the tools from our Title and Gold Sponsors, compete to win additional cash prizes! These prizes are independent of the other categories. For example, it's possible to win both a Main Category Award AND a Sponsor Award.

Additional Rules:
- You must use the sponsored tool in a significant way in your submission
- You must tag that sponsored when you submit your project

*Some Title and Gold Sponsors don't offer a specific AI filmmaking tool and will be choosing their winner based off merit
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Title Sponsors
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Open-Source Checkpoints, LoRAs, Workflows, Text-To-Image, Text-To-Video
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1st Place: $2000 + 1 Year of Civitai's Gold Subscription
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2nd Place: $1000 + 1 Year of Civitai's Silver Subscription
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3rd Place: $500 + 1 Year of Civitai's Bronze Subscription

Text-To-Video, Image-To-Video, Motion Brush, Lip Sync, and Virtual Try-On
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1st Place: $3000 + 1 Month of KLING's Premier Subscription
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2nd Place: $1500 + 1 Month of KLING's Pro Subscription
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3rd Place: $500 + 1320 KLING Credits

Voice Cloning, Language Translation, Text-To-Speech, Speech-To-Speech, Sound Effects
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1st Place: $2000
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2nd Place: $1000
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3rd Place: $500

Video Character Swap, Video Motion Swap, Meme Generator
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1st Place: $2000
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2nd Place: $1000

3rd Place: $500

1st Place: $2000*
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2nd Place: $1000*
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3rd Place: $500*

Gold Sponsors
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Text-To-Video, Image-To-Video, Text-To-Speech, Music Generation

1st Place: $2000

Character & Avatar Video Generation
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1st Place: $2000

Text-To-Video

1st Place: $2000

Text-To-Image, Text-To-Video
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1st Place: $2000

Cloud Rendering for Text-To-Video, Image-To-Video, Video-To-Video
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1st Place: $2000

1st Place: $2000*

Rules

Technical Requirements:‍
- Submission must have both a Title and a Description
- Maximum length of 15 minutes (900 seconds), unless otherwise specified
- Maximum file size of 20 GB
- Exported in an .mp4 or .webm format
- Non-music videos must be in English or subtitled in English (for judging)

General Requirements:
- Must use at least 1 generative AI Tool in a significant way
- To be eligible for the Title or Gold Sponsor Awards, you must use that company’s tool in a significant way
- Must have been completed your submission within 90 days of the competition submission deadline of January 16th, 2025 at 11:59PM PST (between 10/18/2024-1/16/2025)
- Featuring the likeness of real people is subject to additional guidelines (https://civitai.com/content/rules/real-people)
- We have a zero tolerance policy on films that discriminate based on religion, ethnicity, country of origin, political affiliation, gender identity, sexual orientation, or other protected statuses
- Share your film on social media after it has been approved and tag the Project Odyssey account depending on the platform. We really appreciate it!

Optional Recommendations:
- Use original IP, characters, and storylines to avoid DMCA takedown requests.
- In the Marketing & Advertisement category, use a fictional brand or product to avoid DMCA takedown requests.
- If using music, feature an original song that you have permission to use, a song you’ve found on a stock music site or in the public domain, or a song made with AI to avoid DMCA takedown requests.
- Remove watermarks if possible since it distracts from the viewing experience and breaks the 4th wall. Instead of having your personal watermark throughout the video, add an intro or outro credit sequence to spotlight yourself and the people on your team
- Add the names and logos of the tools you used to your credits
- Add the Project Odyssey Logo to the end of your credit sequence
- After completing your film, create a Behind-The-Scenes submission to spotlight yourself as a creative, your workflows and tools, and the inspiration behind your project.

Judging

Criteria - Films will be judged on a combination of Theme, Impact, Originality, and Execution:
- Theme: Does your film meet the rules, requirements, and constraints of the category?
- Impact: Does your film tell a "story" that resonates on an emotional level, provides a lasting impression, or communicates an important takeaway?
- Originality: Were your characters, storylines, visual motifs, and/or music unique, not just a remix of what's already out there? Are you innovating on the ways AI filmmaking tools are being implemented?
- Execution: Does your film have good production value (i.e. editing, pacing, sound design, audio mixing, color correction, text and titles, etc.)?

Process:
1. You can make a submission at any point between December 16th, 2024 and January 16th at 11:59PM PST.
2. Once your film is submitted, it will enter into a Preliminary Round review queue. Within 72 hours, our Preliminary Judges (trusted AI filmmakers who have expertise/domain knowledge in that category) will approve or reject (if it doesn't follow the rules) the film and assign it rating of PG/PG-13/R (films of higher ratings will not be eligible).
3. After all films in each category have been provided a preliminary score, the Top 25 films in each category will be announced on Social Media and will move onto the finals.
4. The full judging panel will then watch all of the films in the finals and assign a score. Scores will be averaged, resulting in the 1/2/3 place placements in each category. For the Title and Gold Sponsor Awards, the judging representative from that sponsor will make the sole determination for the films that best represent their company/community.
5. On or around February 10th (date TBD depending on judging progress), we will host a livestream announcing the winning films.

Please note:
‍- If you submit right at the final deadline of January 16th, it may take longer for your film to be reviewed since there will be a lot of films in the queue.
- While we'd love to have all the judges watch all the films, that is logistically impossible. Based on the metrics from the Season 1, we will be reviewing thousands of films totaling well over 120 hours. If each of our volunteer judges were to do this, it would be a massive time commitment, so we wouldn't be able to A) Get high profile judges to sign up or B) Complete the judging in 2-3 weeks rather than over many months.
- All scores will be averaged across all judges and if there is a tie, a re-vote between the tied options will occur.
- All scores will be monitored for impartiality (i.e. giving full points to all the films made with your tool and 0s to all the tools made by your tool competitor). If vote manipulation occurs, that judge and any scores will be disqualified.
- We made the decision to remove the community vote as this season we will have a much higher volume of films which will be harder to moderate especially when it comes to public voting. Similarly, we've removed the Beginner Award as it will be difficult to determine who is a first time AI filmmaker.