u/CryptoneKing

want to see how the whole process works? 👀 i put together a step-by-step guide using Hurry Up! as an example, from the initial scene description and character references to the storyboard, finished film, and final edits. check out the attached PDF to see how you can bring your own short film to life with OpenArt director mode! 🎬

link to the guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZWzG4kZ43IZnBdR-qPnwv7fozs8N719b/view?usp=sharing

Today’s Bad Idea: An umbrella’s internal monologue during a storm. 🌧️💀

Your mission? Tell the story of a completely ordinary umbrella trying to survive the absolute chaos of a storm.

Think dramatic thoughts, violent winds, getting flipped inside out, watching people run for cover… maybe even questioning every life choice that led it here. 😭☔

🎬 Create your video

📤 Post it in the Day 6 challenge thread

🏆 Earn Challenge Points

🎁 Stack enough points to unlock FREE OpenArt credits!

💬 Winner will be announced in the comments!

No complicated rules. Just take the idea and make it your own.

What do you think your umbrella would be thinking? 👀

Today’s Bad Idea: A superhero whose only power is… finding parking. 🚗💀

Your mission? Take the most ordinary superpower imaginable and make it feel like the fate of the city depends on it.

Think dramatic entrances, packed parking lots, desperate drivers, impossible parking spots, people losing hope… and one hero who somehow always knows where the empty spot is. 🅿️🦸

🎬 Create your video

📤 Post it in the Day 5 challenge thread

🏆 Earn Challenge Points

🎁 Stack enough points to unlock FREE OpenArt credits!

💬 Winner will be announced in the comments!

No complicated rules. Just take the idea and make it your own.

Would you trust this hero to find your parking spot? 👀

Want to help build the OpenArt Reddit community?
We’re looking for AI creators from our community who are active on Reddit, love experimenting with AI image and video tools, and enjoy helping other creators.
Selected creators will join our 1-month Reddit Community Contributor Program, receive up to 200,000 OpenArt credits, and help us grow r/OpenArtOfficial through discussions, workflows, creator support, challenges, and more.

Top contributors will be considered for ongoing paid roles with the OpenArt community team.
Apply here: Apply Here

We’re launching the OpenArt Ad Awards with $50,000 in prize money across 15 awards.

The challenge is simple: make an original ad that’s actually worth watching.

Your ad can be for any fictional brand, product, service, or idea. It must be at least 30 seconds long, with AI-generated visual content created using OpenArt. You can use external tools for editing, sound, music, typography, color grading, and post-production.

Some of the prizes:

🏆 Ad of the Year: $15,000
🤖 Wan Award: $5,000
🤖 Seedance Award: $5,000
🤖 Hailuo Award: $5,000
🎬 UGC, Fashion & Beauty, Product & Brand Commercial: $3,000 each
🎥 Machine Cinema Jury Prize: $2,000
✨ Wonder Studios Award: $2,000
❤️ People’s Choice: $2,000

Open worldwide.

Entries: September 10–30.

Full rules, awards & submission details:

https://openart.ai/program/ad-awards/

Drop what you’re working on in the comments too. Would love to see the community share WIPs, ideas, and finished entries here.

Our fifth OpenArt Reddit Challenge is LIVE!

The challenge: Create a 30-second trailer for a movie that doesn’t exist.

🎬 Any genre. Any story. Any universe.
Horror? Sci-fi? Romance? Comedy? Fantasy? Go wild. Create a 30-second trailer that makes us wish this movie actually existed. Give us just enough of the story to leave us asking: “Wait… when does this come out?”

TWO WINNERS 🏆

🥇 $150 CASH PRIZE
🥈 $50 CASH PRIZE - Runner Up

How to enter:

1. Create a 30-second video using OpenArt
2. Make it a trailer for a movie that doesn't exist
3. Post it in r/OpenArtOfficial
4. Add the 🏆 Weekly Challenge flair
5. Share your movie concept and prompt in the comments
6. Submit by Sunday, September 13th
7. Multiple entries are allowed (and encouraged!)

If Hollywood won't make your movie, you will!🎬

What movie trailer are you making?

🏆 And we have a winner!
🎉 Huge congratulations to u/KleptomanicatShow for taking the top spot! 🥇 (enable your inbox please)

🥈 Shoutout to u/Nourica_Idol for an awesome runner-up entry!

And a massive thank you to everyone who participated this round. The entries keep getting more creative every week, and it’s honestly so fun seeing what you all come up with. 🔥

👀 Challenge #5 drops tomorrow!
Got your next idea ready? 👀🎬

prompt:

Create a comedic 1990s TV sitcom scene set in a doctor's office. There is a laugh track after each character says something sarcastic or funny.

The scene features the following characters:

Use  as the Doctor (wearing a white doctor's lab coat and stethoscope around their neck).
Use  as the Patient.
Use  as the Wife.

Open with a wide shot of the closed door of the doctor's office. There is a knocking sound on the other side of the door. The Doctor's voice calls out from inside the room (off-camera): "Come in!" The door opens and the Patient enters the room. The Patient has a serious injury. The camera is fixed in place.

Cut to a medium shot of the Doctor sitting in a chair at their desk in the doctor's office. Bright windows with natural light flooding in behind them. The Doctor is in the middle of writing notes on their clipboard. The Doctor looks up, sees the Patient, and smiles. The Doctor exclaims with open arms: "My favorite patient! Miss me already?" — Laugh track: the audience laughs.

Cut to a medium shot of the Patient standing at the door. The Patient tries to hide the pain and embarrassment in their voice as they speak: "Doctor, it happened again…" — Laugh track: the audience laughs.

Cut to a medium shot of the Doctor sitting in the chair. The Doctor stands up in concern and places their clipboard on the desk in front of them. The Doctor speaks with a curious voice: "Oh no, same chimpanzee as last time?" — Laugh track: the audience giggles lightly.

Cut to a medium shot of the Patient standing at the door. The Patient lowers their head in shame and says softly: "I don't want to talk about it." The Patient sighs, then looks up at the Doctor and says with sincere concern: "But Doctor, can you please promise me one thing?"

Cut to a wide shot of the Doctor standing (behind the desk) and looking with genuine interest at the Patient, who is standing at the door. The Doctor speaks reassuringly: "Of course, anything."

Cut to a medium shot of the Patient standing at the door. The Patient looks left and right to make sure no one else is within earshot, then says softly with an embarrassed, secretive tone: "Just don't tell my wife about this…"

Cut to a medium shot of the Doctor. The Doctor nods their head and says reassuringly: "You can always count on me."

Suddenly, the Wife sneezes loudly (off-camera) from behind the doctor's desk: 'ACHOO!' — Laugh track: the audience goes "oooh," as though they know some juicy drama is about to unfold.

Cut to a medium shot of the Patient standing at the door. The Patient tilts their head curiously in response to hearing the sound of the sneeze. The Patient looks at the Doctor, and asks: "What was that?"

Cut to a close up of a tissue box on the doctor's desk. The Wife's hand emerges from behind the desk. The Wife's hand reaches for a tissue box, and takes a tissue. The camera tilts from the tissue box, tracking the hand towards the person's face, to reveal the Wife's face slowly emerging up from behind the desk (as though she is coming out of hiding behind the desk).
— Laugh track: the audience laughs with shock and surprise.
The Wife has a nervous, guilty expression on her face. The Wife looks up at the doctor and speaks with a slow and awkward voice (as though they are trying act like nothing is wrong): "Oh, Doctor, I think I have a cold..." — Laugh track: the audience laughs hysterically.

Cut to a medium shot of the Patient standing at the door. The camera crash zooms into a close up of their face as they gasp in shock. — Laugh track: the audience laughs hysterically.

Cut to a medium shot of the Doctor. The Doctor looks back (over their shoulder) at the Wife, who has emerged from behind the desk. The Doctor then looks at the camera. The camera crash zooms into a close up of the Doctor's face as their eyes widen in shock. — Laugh track: the audience laughs hysterically.

Cut to a close up of the Wife's face. The Wife looks at the camera and shrugs dismissively. The image freezes on the Wife's shrug. — Laugh track: the audience laughs and applauds.

Over the freeze frame of the Wife's shrug, a classic 1990s sitcom closing title card animates in: the words "To be continued..." in yellow italic serif text fade in across the lower third of the frozen image. An upbeat 1990s sitcom theme music stinger plays as the title animates in, along with the audience's continued laughter and applause. The freeze frame with the title card holds until the end.

Cut to black.

Classic 1990s sitcom aesthetic: bright, flat, even studio lighting with minimal contrast and soft shadows; clean multi-camera television cinematography, static or gently panning medium and wide shots, straightforward compositions, and consistent exposure. Slightly soft image quality, natural but mildly saturated colors, modest video noise, subtle broadcast softness, and an unmistakable polished 1990s network-TV look.

prompt:

SCENE CONTEXT: A battle-worn male knight walks alone through a dense daffodil field at sunset, exhausted after combat. He drops only his helmet from his hand, is revealed from the waist up struggling to breathe, then his knees give way and he collapses backward into the standing flowers to finally rest.
ACTIVE REFERENCES
 (character sheet) — controls face, hair, beard, body proportions, and full armor/cloak/sword identity exactly as shown, including the sword sheathed at his hip belt. 100% matches reference.
 (helmet + sword) — controls material finish, shape, and engraving of the helmet only in this shot.
 — controls the daffodil field geography, flower density and height, layered soft background, tree line silhouette, and the warm low backlit sunset lighting.
CHARACTER ANCHOR
: adult man, mid-thirties, 180cm, solid sturdy build with broad shoulders, very short cropped light-brown hair with a receded temple hairline, short trimmed dark-blond beard. Heavy layered gunmetal-silver plate armor with enormous multi-plate pauldrons, crossed brown leather belts, blackened mail at the hip skirt and neck, full-length deep burgundy oxblood cloak clasped at both shoulders. His sword stays sheathed in its brown leather scabbard at his left hip belt throughout the entire shot exactly as in  — it is never drawn, never falls, and is not touched. He carries only the helmet, held loosely in his right hand, the helmet matching  exactly: rounded gunmetal skull with a raised center ridge, engraved foliate brow band, circular rosette boss at the temple, and a blackened riveted chainmail aventail hanging from the rear lames. Skin has realistic natural texture: visible fine pores, ruddiness across the cheeks and nose bridge, subtle sheen of sweat at the forehead and temples, faint fine lines at the outer eye corners, small natural texture imperfections, living skin with visible blood flow. Battle-worn state: dust and dry pollen smudged across the lower greaves, sabatons, and cloak hem, hair damp at the temples, no fresh visible wounds.
FIRST FRAME AND SPATIAL BLOCKING
The first visible frame already contains his sabatons and lower legs pushing directly through dense standing daffodils and grass at knee height — no dirt path, no mud trail, no cleared walking lane anywhere in the shot. He walks straight through the growing field itself, daffodil heads and green leaves bending against his greaves while the heavy burgundy cloak hem drags across the top of the flower canopy. No empty landscape before him, no delayed reveal. He walks forward, away from camera, into the depth of the field and directly toward the low sun. Camera trails directly behind him at low height, matching his pace exactly.
FORMAT MODE
CONTROLLED MULTI-SHOT SEQUENCE. Two shots connected by one HARD CUT. No fade, no crossfade, no dissolve.
OPTICS
LENS IS 84° ACROSS ALL SHOTS. NOT NEGOTIABLE.
84° diagonal field of view, classic wide-angle lens character, camera physically close to the subject throughout (0.8–1.5m from his sabatons in the opening, closing to 1.5–2m from his torso after the rise). Environment stays visible to the frame edges, deep readable spatial context, straight lines stay rectilinear, no fisheye curve. Shallow near-field focus as in : the closest daffodil heads at the bottom edge stay soft while the subject stays sharp.
LENS LOCK SHOT A = 84°. LENS LOCK SHOT B = 84°.
CAMERA — SHOT A (single continuous take)
Opens low and directly behind him, near heel height, tracking his sabatons and cloak hem pushing through the standing daffodils at walking pace, shooting into the low backlight so the flowers between camera and subject glow translucent. As the helmet falls, camera holds this low trailing position. The camera then cranes upward while arcing from behind him to a three-quarter front position, ending directly ahead of him at chest height, moving backward at his slowing walking pace. This reveals him from the belly up along with the golden layered daffodil field and the dark tree line behind him, sword still sheathed and undisturbed at his hip. Camera holds this front framing as he stops, breathes, glances aside, then sinks downward as his knees give way. The sun stays behind him, just outside the upper right of frame, so his face reads in soft bounced fill.
ACTION TIMING — SHOT A
0:00 to 0:02 — Close on his sabatons and lower legs pushing through dense standing daffodils, no cleared ground visible anywhere, heavy tired stride carrying real armor weight, burgundy cloak hem dragging across the flower canopy, camera trailing low behind him. A light steady breeze moves through frame from screen-right to screen-left: the cloak edge ripples and drifts, surrounding daffodil heads sway continuously in the same wind direction, loose pollen and seed fluff drift through the backlight as bright pinpoints.
0:02 to 0:03 — The helmet slips from his loosened right hand and falls beside his feet into the standing flowers, striking the ground with a dull heavy thud, daffodil stems flattening only at the point of impact, the blackened mail aventail flopping and settling a beat after the shell lands, a small burst of pollen dust lifting into the light.
0:03 to 0:05 — Camera cranes and arcs upward and forward, repositioning to a three-quarter front view at chest height, revealing him from the belly up and the golden field behind him, sword visibly still sheathed at his hip. The breeze continues, stirring the cloak and lifting dust off the pauldrons. His eyes are empty and tired, he exhales visibly, breathing heavy and labored, chest and shoulders rising against the cuirass with each breath.
0:05 to 0:06 — He turns his gaze aside, exhausted, jaw slack, then his knees buckle; his upper body sinks suddenly downward in frame as he drops to his knees, the armor plates shifting and clashing softly against each other, camera holding its position.
CUT: HARD CUT to Shot B.
CAMERA — SHOT B
New angle: camera positioned to the side and slightly elevated, looking down and across at a patch of fully standing, undisturbed daffodils — not a pre-flattened or cleared spot. The low sun sits to screen-right, raking across the field. He topples backward from kneeling into the flowers. His sword remains sheathed at his hip throughout, unremarked.
ACTION TIMING — SHOT B
0:00 to 0:01 — He falls backward into daffodils that are standing at full height right up until the moment of contact. His armored body weight bends and compresses the flowers and grass live, on impact, not before — stems snapping and flattening only where his body actually lands, the burgundy cloak flaring wide and settling around him, yellow petals dislodging and drifting through the backlight on the breeze.
0:01 to 0:03 — He lies still on his back among the just-crushed daffodils, breeze still moving the edge of his cloak and the surrounding flowers, exhales one long visible breath, and finally closes his eyes.
0:03 to 0:04 — He lifts one gauntleted hand and rests it gently on his own chest plate, breathing beginning to slow, fingers relaxing open.
PHYSICS
The helmet has real steel mass: it falls in a short arc, strikes the ground with a single dull impact, does not bounce beyond a small realistic settle, and its mail aventail lags behind the shell's motion before flopping down a beat later. His fall backward follows real weight transfer under armor load: knees buckle first under fatigue, torso drops after with the mass of the plate carrying him down, the heavy wool cloak billows and settles under gravity a beat behind the body, daffodil stems compress and spring back only partially where crushed. The daffodil field itself is untouched and fully grown right up to the instant of contact in both shots — no pre-cleared ground, no staged empty patch.
LIGHTING
Hard low sunset backlight from a sun sitting just above the tree line on the horizon, positioned behind the subject and slightly right of frame center, matching  exactly. Backlit daffodil petals glow with strong subsurface translucency so the whole field reads as a mass of warm light. The subject is rim-lit: a bright warm edge runs along the top of his pauldrons, the crown of his head, his shoulders, and the outer fold of the cloak. His face and the front of his armor sit in soft shadow filled by warm bounce off the flower canopy below. The burgundy cloak glows deep translucent wine-red where the low sun passes through its edge. Fine airborne pollen and dust catch the light as visible drifting motes throughout. White balance fixed at 3200K for both shots. Exposure holds constant with no auto-brightening.
COLOR GRADE
Warm amber and honey-gold across every lit surface, matching the saturated golden grade of . Shadows fall into deep desaturated olive and near-black brown. The sky above the tree line washes to pale cream. His armor holds its cool gunmetal grey identity in every broad shadowed plane while carrying warm golden fire only along the rims and raised ridges, so the steel reads as cold metal lit by a warm sun. Contrast is soft and filmic with rolled-off creamy highlights.
AUDIO
Light wind moving steadily through the daffodil stems, faint distant birdsong of late evening. His sabatons pressing into the dense grass and flowers, armor plates shifting and clinking with each heavy step. The helmet's impact: a dull heavy thud followed by the soft jingle-settle of chainmail. His breathing is heavy, labored, and audible throughout, becoming a long exhale as he lies down. No dialogue. No subtitles. No music.
POSITIVE CONSTRAINTS
Same face, beard, hair, armor, cloak, and sheathed sword identity in both shots, matching  exactly.
The helmet matches  exactly in shape, gunmetal finish, engraved brow band, rosette boss, and blackened mail aventail.
Only the helmet falls in this sequence. The sword stays sheathed at his hip in every frame of both shots.
His armor stays cool gunmetal-silver in its broad planes with warm rim light on the edges, and his cloak stays deep burgundy oxblood, in every frame.
Dense standing daffodils and grass fill the ground plane in every frame he walks through.
Skin shows real natural texture and imperfection, with visible pores and living blood flow.
A light wind is continuously visible moving his cloak and the surrounding daffodils throughout both shots.
The spot where he falls is full of standing, untouched flowers until the exact moment of impact.
The frame contains one man only, with no added characters, no dialogue, and no visible fresh wounds.

prompt:
Create a short film with the following requirements:

[Type: LIVE_ACTION_FEATURE_OR_SHORT]

Treat this as a live-action short film, not an ad, trailer, or UGC piece. Use grounded cinematic storytelling, real locations, motivated light, believable performances, and a clear dramatic spine. Keep the visual language in feature-film / short-film grammar.

[Short Film is about]: The core idea

The red string isn't just a metaphor you tell the audience about, it's a visual device that runs through every scene. Instead of narration explaining the connection, you show a single red thread (or a trail of pollen, light, or thread-like motion) linking the bee's journey to the child's plate. That's what makes it feel like a "theory" rather than a nature documentary.

Suggested beat structure (7 beats for a 45 second cut)

Birth (0 to 5s) — A bee emerges from the hive, backlit, first flight. A faint red thread appears in the air around it, barely visible, like it's tethered to something unseen.

Flight and pollination (5 to 12s) — The bee moves flower to flower. The red thread trails behind it, stitching itself between blossoms, subtly forming a line that will later reappear.

Honey creation (12 to 18s) — Inside the hive, honeycomb fills with gold. The red thread now runs through the comb itself, almost like a vein.

Packaging (18 to 24s) — Jars fill on a production line, label goes on. The thread appears as a subtle design element on the label or ribbon, tying "product" back to "nature" visually.

Purchase and home (24 to 30s) — A hand picks the jar off a shelf, family kitchen, morning light.

The child eats (30 to 36s) — Honey drizzled on toast, close up bite, satisfaction.

The cycle restarts (36 to 45s) — Child runs outside, spots a bee on a flower, camera pulls back and the red thread reappears, connecting child to bee, closing the loop.

[Visual Style]: Cinematic

[Video duration]: About 45s

Our fourth OpenArt Reddit Challenge is LIVE!

The challenge: Pick a song. Any song. Any genre. Now make a music video for it using OpenArt.

Tell a story. Build a world. Create a performance. Go abstract. Match every beat. Ignore every convention.

Your song. Your concept. Your music video.

TWO WINNERS 🏆

🥇 $150 CASH PRIZE

🥈 $50 CASH PRIZE - Runner Up

How to enter:

1. Create a video using OpenArt
2. Pick any song and bring it to life as a music video.
3. Post it in r/OpenArtOfficial
4. Add the "🏆 Weekly Challenge" flair
5. Share your song choice and prompt in the comments
6. Submit by September 6th
7. Multiple entries are allowed (and appreciated)

Any song, any genre, any vibe. What story will you tell? 🎤🎬

🎉 Huge congratulations to u/Mer_ex for taking the top spot! 🥇

🥈 Shoutout to u/Federal_Context_4625 for an awesome runner-up entry!

Big thanks to everyone who joined this round and shared their creations. The creativity keeps getting better with every challenge, and we love seeing what you come up with. 🔥

👀 Challenge #5 drops tomorrow!
See you in the next one! 🎬

Using the new version of Seedance 2.5.. so many others engine options in this tool.

WEEKLY CHALLENGE #3: A Package From 2050 📦

Our third OpenArt Reddit Challenge is LIVE!

The challenge: A package arrives at your door. It’s from the year 2050. What’s inside?

A message from your future self? Technology that shouldn’t exist yet? Something that changes everything? Or something completely ridiculous?

Your challenge is to turn this prompt into a video. Make us laugh. Make us uncomfortable. Make us emotional. Surprise us.

TWO WINNERS 🏆

🥇 $150 CASH PRIZE
🥈 $50 CASH PRIZE - Runner Up

How to enter:

1. Create a video using OpenArt
2. Bring the prompt “A package arrived from the year 2050.” to life
3. Post it in r/OpenArtOfficial
4. Add the “🏆 Weekly Challenge” flair
5. Share your prompt in the comments
6. Submit by August 30th
7. Multiple entries are allowed

What's inside the package? That's entirely up to you. 📦⏳

Let’s see what the future sent back!

The power to develop quick quality educational vid's does open up alot of access to relatively cheap learning materials. I know unitversities are looking to increase hands on / collab learning and manucuring almost infotainment style 101 videos is a thing. I was playing with OpenArt AI this weekend an from neever using it 5 hours later produced a pretty good first go at a teach vid.

This could become both a business opportunity/educators aide/tool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a45-lGV0wo8

🎉 Congratulations to u/Next_Character_7697 for taking the win with SEGA GENESIS MINI! (check your inbox)

Weekly Challenge #3 drops tomorrow. 🩷🎬