Cross-Product Creative Challenge #8: The Paleolithic Gallery

[AlanGilbertson]

Welcome to the Cross-Product Creative Challenge. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Mystery Book Cover challenge. Now we're diving into the ancient past.

The Challenge:
Imagine a Stone Age art exhibition. What would your Neolithic art gallery look like? Would it have docents? A gift shop? A party of bored schoolkids being dragged along by a teacher?

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 ancient-looking art, textures, and environment. Try out Gemini 2.5 Flash (Nano Banana), which will be free on Firefly for a short time.
• Think like a curator. What’s the story behind the exhibition? Does it have a theme?
• It’s a Cross-Product Challenge! Don't do it all in Firefly. Use Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Substance, Adobe Express—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?

[Christelle RD]

That's awesome!
What I like most is their gait. You can imagine how difficult it must have been for them to transition to walking upright. The one on the left is very successful, both in terms of his gait and the length of his arms—is it the Australopithecus sediba from the Lower Pleistocene?

[Michele Weisbart]

 Created various images in Firefly and composited parts in Photoshop, deleted certain areas, darkened the overall image and increased the warmth.

[Christelle RD]

Interesting, I love the luminescent hands on the "walls".
A paint made from phosphorescent organism would certainly have been very useful for painting in caves...

[AlanGilbertson]

That's gorgeous, Michele: beautifully thought out and executed. I'm a sucker for attention to detail, so I just love this!

[DeanUtian]

Great work @Michele Weisbart .
Look like most people in paleolithic times were left handed. 🙂

[fbeaume]

I found this interesting piece during my last visit to the museum... Right in the middle of the “Age of Fire” section...
More seriously: I used Firefly to generate the cavity in the stone wall, Adobe stock to grab some nice dead branches images and the match, Adobe fonts for the glass typo... Then I brought everything inside photoshop to create the composite and finish with a color grading...
I'm a bit off topic but I wanted to think outside the (match)box and tackle this cross challenge from a less conventional angle... Nothing to win, so nothing to loose either 😉
Thanks Alan for this challenge!

[AlanGilbertson]

Indeed, why would a neolithic art gallery not have safety measures? Great way to find a box to think outside of! Thanks!

[fbeaume]

I know Alan, it's not the type of end result expected with the original brief...
Thanks for your kind words... I really appreciate!