Challenge Summary
For this week’s creative sprint, you’re invited to step into the role of an AI-powered storyteller. Your challenge is to create a children’s story from scratch — and bring it to life with AI.
You’ll write the story, generate visuals (or an animation), and present it however you want: as a picture book, a short film, an audiobook, a zine, or something weird we’ve never seen before.
The vibe is up to you! It can be:
- Wholesome and bedtime-friendly
- Full of lessons and morals
- Totally deranged and adult-in-disguise à la Nobody Poops But You
The only rule is: make it feel like a children’s story, whether real or twisted.
Use this challenge to experiment with narrative structure, image generation, video tools, voice synthesis, and your own sense of humor.
Inspiration
You could go cute, creepy, cozy, or cursed. Here are some jumping-off points:
You might create…
- A picture book about a cat who owns a startup and loses it all
- A short film about a lonely toaster who dreams of becoming a jazz musician
- A sci-fi bedtime story narrated by a glitchy AI grandma
- An illustrated guidebook to monsters that live in your closet and pay rent
- A poetic fable about emotions that live in the clouds and cry rain down on Earth
- A surreal, Ghibli-style animated short about a goose who wants to become a linebacker for the Raiders
You can write your story using GPT-4, Claude, or on your own. For visuals, explore Midjourney, DALL·E, or Kling.ai (for animation). Combine formats if you want — a narrated slideshow, an illustrated poem, a 3D flipbook, or something else entirely.
Anything that brings the story to life.
