Welcome to the Cross-Product Creative Challenge! Thanks to everyone who participated in the Paleolithic Gallery challenge. Now we're mixing photography and cartoons.
The Challenge:
Create a movie still in which a cartoon character or several interact with character(s) in a real-world photograph. You don't have to make a video, although you can if you want. We're looking for a still that tells a story, like the example below. The cartoon elements can come from Firefly or Illustrator or Photoshop, your choice.
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 Gemini 2.5 Flash or other partner models.
- Think like a director. Whatās the story here? Who are the characters? What's happening in the scene?
- Itās a Cross-Product Challenge! Don't do it all in Firefly. Use Photoshop, Illustrator, Substance, Adobe Expressāwhatever 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?
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Started with the Homer image below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Simpson#/media/File:Homer_Simpson_2006.png
Used Firefly with Gemini model to create different versions of homers. Selected a few, composed in Photoshop. Then back to Firefly with Gemini to get the background, then back to Photoshop.
Here are 2 versions.
Who Scammed Rocky Raccoon?
A dark comedy/animation/fantasy set in 1950s Los Angeles, blending live-action and animation in a film noir mystery where hard-boiled detective Rex Murdock helps cartoon superstar Rocky Raccoon out of a tough jam. This technical marvel has seamless human-cartoon interactions, complex themes of greed and prejudice combined with the classic "Parental Bonus" of witty, adult-oriented humor hidden in double entendres and layered jokes, making it a classic for both older kids and adults.
A wide variety of apps were used to create this. This includes but is not limited to:
ChatGPT for brainstorming, planning, etc.
Gemini 3 (Nano Banana Pro) for generating image assets.
Adobe Firefly for generating image assets.
Adobe Photoshop for image compositing and layout development.
Adobe Illustrator for logo design and vector art creation.
Netflix for inspiration and so I could recreate the fake UI and show card.
Describing the entire process would take way too long but suffice it to say I developed the assets using many tools, technologies and sources and then combined them together to make the office scene. After I had the office scene completed, I created the Netflix layout. The instructions for this challenge said: create a single image that makes us ask, āWait ā is that real?ā Thus, I tried to make it appear as if this were a real show that someone could watch on Netflix.
What do you think?
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