Cross-Product Creative Challenge #10: What year is it, anyway?

Welcome to the latest Cross-Product Creative Challenge! Thanks to everyone who participated in the Mixed Media challenge with such magical ideas. This time, we're messing with history in a challenge that might be called "Temporal Mash-up."

The Challenge:

Start in Firefly with a character or a scene from one or more time periods (say a medieval astronaut or a samurai with sunglasses), then build a scene that shows multiple time layers interacting. Think:

• A Renaissance street with digital billboards
• A futuristic lab with ancient scrolls
• A prehistoric jungle with floating holograms

Go crazy. Build in some Easter eggs, little details you don't see at first that bring a smile when you discover them.

Guidelines:

• A prompt is not enough. Layer your assets and refine your composition. Treat Firefly as a collaborator, not a shortcut. Use prompts to generate characters. Try out partner models.
• Think like a director. What’s the story here? Who are the characters? What's happening in the scene?
• It’s a Cross-Product Challenge! Don't do it all in Firefly. Use Photoshop, Illustrator, Substance, Adobe Express, Fresco—whatever tools will help you build the scene.
• Share your process. Tell us how you created it. What tools did you use? How did you refine your idea? What choices did you make?
   

How many anachronisms can you spot in this scene?

This is a composite of three otherwise-identical scenes (Medieval, 1930s, 1970s) generated with Gemini 3 Pro, overlaid and composited with masks in Photoshop. The individual Easter eggs are either GenFill using Gemini 3 Pro or Firefly, or, in the case of the Amazon logo, an official PNG warped to match perspective, text recolored to white, and partially transparent to blend better with the truck side.