A dialogue-led AI short film made in Grok Imagine.
Write your own ending with Grok Imagine: $50K second place in the Odyssey contest
The judges rewarded dialogue and a story with feeling over flashy effects, so the story is where you can stand out.
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From @JSFILMZ0412 on X · Sep 2026
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The workflow
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Where & with what
What they did
- 1The moveJSFILMZ, an AI filmmaker, wrote his own extended ending to The Odyssey, with an older Odysseus sitting with the next generation.
- 2Step 2Pick a story angle that means something to you
- 3Step 3Write the dialogue first
- 4ResultGrok Imagine's official winners post names him the $50K Second Place winner (Sep 4, 2026).
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Contest entry
Official X embed, loaded from X when you tap play.
Quick answers
What tools do you need?
Grok (ai assistant with live x context).
How much does it cost?
You can start for $0: Grok has a free plan. Check each tool's site for current prices.
Is it allowed?
X allows original content; deceptive synthetic media likely to cause harm can be labeled or removed, and paid posts must be disclosed. Source.
Watch out: Prize money is a one-off contest payout, not a repeatable income. The contest was open to legal US residents 18+, and finalists had to show their project links and prompts to prove the videos were made only with Grok Imagine.
Try it yourself
(Our template, not the creator's prompt.) I'm making a 3-minute AI film scene from [story]. Write a beat sheet of 12 shots: for each, the camera move, setting, character action, one line of dialogue (if any) and a Grok Imagine video prompt. Keep the same character description word-for-word in every shot.
Starter tools
Your first step
Open Grok, paste the prompt above and swap the [brackets] for your own niche.
Full write-up & sources
More detail: He built it around dialogue and a theme personal to him as a dad. Grok Imagine later shared his beginner tutorial series, which starts with text-to-image and his "FRAME" method for building prompts.
Results: His "I just won 2nd Place" post shows 24,029 views and 628 likes, and his entry post shows 15,894 views (X, Oct 18, 2026).
Source: @JSFILMZ0412 on X · Sep 2026. Summarised in our own words; figures as shared by the creator or shown on the platform. Updated .
