# Project Odyssey Season 2

- Date: 2025-02-17
- Type: festival
- Credit: Project Odyssey
- Artists: [Project Odyssey](https://aifilmhistory.org/artist/project-odyssey)
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4udyrFzJ_jE
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/project-odyssey-season-2

Billed as the world's largest AI film competition. After a first season in June 2024, Project Odyssey announced Season 2 on November 30 with nine categories, from Narrative and Music Video to Trailers, Rendering & VFX and Behind-the-Scenes, plus sponsor awards from Civitai, ElevenLabs, Kling, Lambda and Viggle and gold sponsors including Runway, HeyGen and Hedra. The pitch was support rather than exposure: about $800,000 in free tool trials and $78,000 in cash from 47 sponsors and community partners.

More than 30,000 people signed up and over 2,000 teams submitted 4,500+ films, nearly 190 hours in all, by the January 19, 2025 deadline. Twenty-two judges, including Jason Zada, Eric Shamlin and ElevenLabs' Mati Staniszewski, picked the winners at an online ceremony on February 17. [One Last Wish](https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/one-last-wish) took Narrative, [KITSUNE](https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/kitsune) came second and was a favorite of three judges, and NALVORA and Memory Maker each won two awards.

For Season 3 the team partnered with the Chroma Awards, an AI film, music video and games competition backed by ElevenLabs, Google Cloud, fal, Freepik, Dreamina and CapCut, with $175,000 in prizes.

Links:
- Season 2 winners: https://www.projectodyssey.ai/season-2-awards
- Award ceremony (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEgZ2TiWXkg
- Season 2 announcement trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quSWxWpfMB0
- Open Format winners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqPnSMKR7c4
- Rendering & VFX winners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc_uD5jZqW4
- Season 1 winners: https://www.projectodyssey.ai/season1
- Project Odyssey x the Chroma Awards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pZpsmoBkjc

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/project-odyssey-season-2
Era: 2025 · The Studio Era
Last updated: 2026-09-14