Project Odyssey Season 2 Award Winners
Category Rules
From your perspective as a storyteller, make a film that has strong characters or an impactful narrative that can resonate with audiences.
One Last Wish
By Simon Valentine, Edmond Yang, Alex Holm, Erlend Loe and Reimagine AS
KITSUNE 🦊 💫
By Henry Daubrez
Newton's Cradle
By Jeff Synthesized
Dear Grandma
By Danny Tseng
Category Rules
Create a short form video or meme to go viral on social media.
Høld
By Ø Studio
DNA
By Sia Rekh Hu
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Stay Young, Stay Wild
By LeniviyArt
Wildlife Isn’t Decoration – Set It Free
By ParallelRealityStudios
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Category Rules
Experiment with video art, an interactive film, an animated storyboard, or something else that doesn’t fit into the other categories.
DO NOT DISTURB THE SANE MAN
By Bardia Shahrestani & Frederick Pelletier-Goulet
LOVE FROM VOID
By Junie Lau
Rimbs on Blues
By Blase
Edge of Illusion
By Batuhan Yıldız (aka batudude)
Category Rules
Spotlight your story as a creator, your workflows, and the inspiration behind your Project Odyssey submission.
Making Claymation with AI
By Lynn Tsai
Project Odyssey Trailer
By Nathaniel Dwarika and Chriselle Dwarika from Black Mixture
The Dude Behind the Dude: A Musical Experiment
By Russell Johnson
Sarabande + 7 Days (Creative Process)
By Brogan Wassell
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Title Sponsor Award Criteria:
Lambda will choose their favorite films from Project Odyssey Season 2 based off merit.
Memory Maker
By Nik Kleverov and Native Foreign
Roommate From Hell
By Tyler Cohen
The Last of the Arcanas - Second Generation
By Ethereal Moon
Before you love me, Please love yourself first.
By Junie Lau
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Gold Sponsor Award Criteria:
Use our Gold Sponsors AI filmmaking products or tools in your Project Odyssey Season 2 submission.
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Community Award Criteria:
Be part of one of these AI Filmmaking communities and be selected by their team as their winner.
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Top 25, Top 50, and Honorable Mentions
In order to determine Project Odyssey Season 2's winners, all 4500+ submissions when through multiple rounds of review. Here are the finalists from each category that moved onto each round:
- Narrative
- Music Video
- Social Media
- Marketing & Advertisement
- Trailers
- Rendering & VFX
- Open Format
- Behind-The-Scenes
View all these finalists here!
Judge Picks:
Judges were optionally asked to select films that stood out!
Claire Xue: Dear Grandma & Making Claymation with AI
GerdeGotIt: DO NOT DISTURB THE SANE MAN
Willonius Hatcher: DO NOT DISTURB THE SANE MAN
Midjourney Man: Elley Duhe - FREE ME x Visualsk2
Gabe Michael: In The Night
Nem Perez: JÓLMUST
Xintao Wang: Is It CG ? Or ...
Mati Staniszewski: Pip & The Giant Clockwork
Nan Ha: The Other Side
Justin Hackney: Memory Maker
Alex Golubitsky: Life flashed before my eyes
Yerzat Dulat: KITSUNE 🦊 💫
Jason Zada: KITSUNE 🦊 💫
Eric Shamlin: KITSUNE 🦊 💫
Chris Surrey: Alex
Yongten Wen: The Last Dance
Josh Soto: DNA
Eliza Tan: DNA
David Lynch: THREAT
Jack Maltby: THREAT
Yigit Kirca: Lure of the Light
Jo Zhang: One Last Wish
Narrative
- AI Myself: Love Myself – A Film About AI by Creatorsimlyee: "A dreamy love letter to the medium of AI filmmaking."
- What If I by lacinatb: "A meta take on when the best idea is the idea itself."
- A Wet Movie Dream by leisure2005li: "A uniquely animated and touching story about falling in love with cinema."
- FLUSH by iaveras: "An introspective look at hard romantic choices through the lens of a well crafted comedy."
Music Videos
- Selfish "Man Without a Home" by mrjoerowe: "A truly touching story that speaks to the heart of the human experience."
- Gone For the Weekend by Yennamedia: "A bass filled bop with that got me hyphed up."
- Pizzacore by annehorel: "PIZZA AND TV THE ULTIMATE THRILL! Lunchtime metal fantasies meet unique campy characters."
- Van EssA - Unleash The Sunshine (Project Odyssey Edition) by SkycladsquirrelArt: "A excellent pop-sci vibe that cleverly pairs open-source rotoscoping with closed source tools."
Social Media
- 猫师傅的田园生活 by 576201443232: "Visual ASMR that brought me joy and made me appreciate the simple parts of life."
- The potential for creativity by AIart_JP: "A masterful soundscape synchronized with magical realism vignettes."
- Modern day Gulliver by filmharshatwork0766: "A social media mockumentary that nails the genre with a fantastical but familiar character."
- The Noodle Master - Fictional Showa History by BaBell: "A universe of food filled alternate history that I never knew I needed (until now)."
Marketing & Advertisement
- The Last Dance by scottomb: "A perfectly executed bite sized story that, truly pushes the limits of the AI film tools."
- Money Evolution by spaso: "The best use of prompt traveling I've seen, which truly understands that the medium is the message."
- AI ADS Gourmet by hippiehousestudio: "Incredible AI motion graphics that make me hungry for more!"
- Smoked Beanz by Julesvisuals_jn: "A hilarious bite sized story that's got me gassed up."
Trailers
- VIKINGS I|O by xrmasiso: "An epic world built around real human actors who perfectly play their roles across many places, many times, many faces."
- The BakunawAi by ben400: "An enticing dark fantasy with amazing sound design."
- Stanley Kubrick’s NAPOLEON by ron: "A moog-fueled vision of a Jack Nicholson odyssey that's a true homage to Kubrick's style."
- Mother of Monsters - The Enid Andrews Story by amberOHV: "A Netflix-style crime docu-series that emulates the genre masterfully."
Rendering & VFX
- Eruka by wu110234163304588: "A unique style transferred short that delights and sparks joy with its entertaining voices that transcend any language."
- Magic Town by Mograph_GZC: "A super creative concept that combines drone footage with AI for the fantasy town that's next on my bucketlist."
- Réminiscences Futures by AmineRachad: "The best of both worlds between AI powered rendering and classic art."
- Evolution of Ships by yuvraj108c601: "A prompt-traveled journey through time in a beautiful semi-realistic aesthetic."
Open Format:
- Daydream by iyaKen: "A beautifully styled rendition of an interactive narrative with the perfect Project Odyssey easter egg."
- Atmospheric Synthesis by oi18xxx: "An innovative take on open-source real-time projection mapping I thought was extremely cool."
- Scrolling in a Coffee Shop by Kreefax: "Interdimensional cable meets AI content consumption in this experimental vision of social media platforms."
- ORGANOMORPH by plasm0: "A (very) weird and wonderful reinvention of the runway walk"
Behind-The-Scenes
- Behind the workflow of Mars CyberTruck by ludovitnastisin520: "A highly polished look on how to execute brand consistency in a futuristic setting."
- Behind-the-Scenes of "Brute Scandal in Art Brut" by marinaviatkina: "An original pairing that showcases how writers and AI film can work in collaboration rather than competition."
- Be Honored in Beauty - Behind the scenes: "An introspective reflection on how art and positive energy can make a difference at every level."
- Beyond the Edge by BlindCrow: "A process video that showcased how creators can evolve alongside their unique usage of the tools."
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