AI Film Awards

Each of the main categories all have the same prize pools. Participants can make multiple submissions to a single category or submit films to multiple categories, however each unique film can only be submitted to a single category.
1st Prize

- $3000 cash
- An animated "1st Place" award laurel

2nd Prize

- $1500 cash
- An animated "2nd Place" award laurel

3rd Prize

- $500 cash
- An animated "3rd Place" award laurel

All winners, finalists, and honorable mentions

- A unique award laurel
- A superlative such as "Best Acting," "Catchiest Song," or "Most Likely to Become A Feature Film."

All entrants

- An animated Project Odyssey Season 2 badge on Civitai 

Sponsor Awards


Sponsor Awards are independent of prizes of other categories, meaning that it's possible to win BOTH a Sponsor Award AND a Main Category Award. In order to be eligible for a Sponsor Award, you need to use that company's tooling in a significant way.

*Some sponsors do not have an AI filmmaking tool and will be choosing their winning films based off merit.
Civitai

1st: $2000 cash + a yearlong Civitai Gold Subscription
2nd: $1000 cash + a yearlong Civitai Gold Subscription
3rd: $500 cash + a yearlong Civitai Gold Subscription

ElevenLabs

1st: $2000 cash
2nd: $1000 cash
3rd: $500 cash

KLING AI

1st: $3000 cash + 1 month of a KLING AI Premier Subscription
2nd: $1500 cash + 1 month of a KLING AI Pro Subscription
3rd: $500 cash + 1320 KLING AI Generation Credits

For each of the main category winners:
- 1st: 1 month of a KLING AI Premier Subscription
- 2nd: 1 month of a KLING AI Pro Subscription
- 3rd: 1320 KLING AI Generation Credits

Lambda Labs*

1st: $2000 cash
2nd: $1000 cash
3rd: $500 cash

Viggle

1st: $2000 cash
2nd: $1000 cash
3rd: $500 cash

Hedra 

$2000 cash

MiniMax + Hailuo

$2000 cash

Realdreams*

$2000 cash

Higgsfield

$2000 cash

Nebius* 

$2000 cash

RunPod

$2000 cash

ThinkDiffusion

$2000 cash

Free Trials and Discounts: Available to Project Odyssey Signups on December 16th

We've raised over $750,000 in free trials from our generous sponsors to help kickstart your AI Filmmaking journey!

Image & Video Generation

Civitai
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.
- 300,000+ free open-source checkpoints, LoRAs, and workflows
KLING AI
The KLING AI platform, is a next-generation one-stop AI creation platform that 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.
- A Trial Package for credits and early access to advanced features
Viggle
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.
- 1 month of Viggle's Pro Plan for the first 5000 signups
Hailuo Video by MiniMax
Hailuo AI Video 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.
- 1000 credits to user over 3 days
Hedra
Hedra is a pioneering video foundation model company building a full-stack creation studio capable of control, emotion, and creative intelligence.
- 1 month of Hedra's Basic Plan for the first 5000 signups
RunPod
RunPod is a cloud computing platform that helps developers build and deploy AI applications.
- 10 minutes of Generation with Genmo's Mochi 1 Video model
Higgsfield
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.
- 2000 Image Generations for all sign ups
- 200 Video Generations for the first 100 signups
ThinkDiffusion
With ThinkDiffusion, creativity has no limits. Enjoy a private full-featured open source workspace in the cloud, hosting unrestricted, bleeding edge open-source AI art tools like Stable Diffusion and Flux. Experiment and push the boundaries of what’s possible with a global ecosystem of open source models, apps and tools, tailored for creatives who want to customize, experiment and craft visuals that aren’t possible with mainstream solutions.
- A ThinkDiffusion Hobby Trial and an exclusive 50% off discount for TD-Pro plans
neural frames
Neural frames is the synthesizer for the visual world. It is a web-based animation generation suite, enabling musicians to create audio-reactive visuals with fine-grained camera controls. The technology is based on the open-source text-to-image AI Stable Diffusion & self-written algorithms.
- 2 minutes of neural frames video generation for the first 5000 signups
Genmo (Mochi 1)
Genmo is a frontier AI lab developing the best open video generation models. Create any video, possible or impossible, using Mochi 1.
- 1 month of Genmo's Playground Lite subscription
fal
Fal.ai is a generative media platform that provides developers with tools to create AI-powered applications.
- $10 in generation credits for the first 400 sign ups
LTX Studio + LTX Video by Lighttricks
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.
- 1 month of LTX Studio's Community Subscription for the first 5000 signups

- Download LTXV on Civitai to start generating locally
CogVideoX
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.
- Download CogVideoX on Civitai to start generating locally
Morph Studio
Morph Studio is an AI-powered video creation platform that allows users to make videos from text, images, or other videos.
- 500 Morph Studio generation credits
Domo AI
Domo AI is an AI video generation tool that can change the style of videos, generate images, and animate images from text.
- 1 month of the Domo AI's Basic Plan for the first 5000 signups
Haiper AI
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.
- 4800 Haiper Generation credits for the first 550 sign ups
Pony Diffusion V6 by Purple Smart
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.
- Download Pony Diffusion V6 on Civitai and start generating locally
Leonardo AI
Leonardo.Ai is an AI-first suite of tools for your creative workflow. Our prioritizing creator control and human creativity to help realize your vision.
- 5000 Leonardo AI Fast tokens
Rubbrband
Rubbrband is building an AI artist that can imagine and edit beautiful images for you. We are on a mission to allow anybody to create great art, regardless of skill level. Rubbrband is used by creatives all around the world.
- 1 month of Rubbrband’s Standard Plan to generate images, videos, and train LoRAs


Audio Generation (Voiceover, SFX, Music, and Lip Sync)

ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is a cutting-edge AI company revolutionizing audio content creation. Specializing in Text-to-Speech, Voice Changer, Dubbing, Text-to-SFX, and Voice Cloning, ElevenLabs empowers creators, businesses, and developers with hyper-realistic and customizable voice solutions.
- 2 months of the ElevenLabs Starter Plan for the first 5000 sign ups
Hailuo Audio by Minimax
Hailuo Audio is a next-generation Music Generation, TTS, and Voice Cloning model for creators and filmmakers.
- 10,000 Characters of TTS Generation Credits
Cartesia
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.
- 1 month of Cartesia's Pro Plan.
Sync
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.
- 2 Months of Sync's Creator Tier + additional generation credits
Tunes by Freepik
Make your projects speak volumes with Freepik Tunes. Discover curated music, high-quality sound effects, and powerful audio tools.
- Unlimited downloads on Freepik Tunes


3D Assets and Environments

Playhouse
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.
- 1 month of Playhouse's Indie Plan for the first 5000 signups
Playbook
Playbook is a diffusion based engine for 3D scenes that leverages ComfyUI for image and video generation
- An to Playbook's web-based tool + Blender Plugin
- 300 render credits
Tripo
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. 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.
- 1 month of Tripo's Professional subscription


Screenwriting

SAGA
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.
- 1 month of Saga's Premium Subscription