World Building Track

The AI World Building Challenge

Build a place that has never existed and take a camera through it. Use Qolaba for AI worldbuilding, AI concept art, and environment design to render a city, a planet, a floating archipelago, a dead civilisation, or a world with its own physics. Post the film, tag @qolaba, and enter the World Building lane of the Qolaba AI Film Challenge.

Submission StartsSeptember 1
Submissions CloseSeptember 21
Results AnnouncedOctober 18
Made With Qolaba

The kind of worlds people are building with Qolaba

A quick look at the kind of work this track produces. Once the challenge opens, real entries from other creators take these spots and update as new submissions come in.

The Track

So, what is the AI World Building Challenge?

This is the Film lane for the people who care more about where the story happens than what happens in it. Build a world with its own rules, its own weather, its own architecture, and then take a camera through it. Qolaba handles the concept art, the environments, the wide shots, and the atmosphere, so the world reads as one place across every scene. Concept artists, game designers, writers, and filmmakers use this lane to build the settings they never had the crew or the budget to shoot.

One world, every angle

Reference locks keep the world consistent, so the city in shot one and the city in shot ten are the same city, seen from different sides.

From wide shot to weather

Build the wide, the mid, and the detail. Qolaba can render the skyline, the street, and the raindrops in the same style.

Concept to camera in one place

Concept art, environments, and film all live in the same tool. Iterate on the world and the shots without rebuilding either.

Why Enter

A world only sells if people can walk through it. Static art can hint at a place. Film puts you inside it. This track rewards the world people would want to spend an hour in, not just a still image of it. Concept artists prove their world reads on screen. Writers show the setting for a novel or a game. Filmmakers get to shoot the place they always wanted to visit.

You make it, you post it, you send us the link. Judges score it, the community votes on it, and the strongest work rises to the top. Each step below takes a couple of minutes.

HOW IT WORKS

Four steps from idea to entry

The Qolaba video series builder, with reference images chosen and the Generate Now button ready.
The same entry published on Instagram and YouTube, surrounded by likes, shares and comments.
The challenge submission form, with a track selected, a title filled in and post links pasted.
The public leaderboard, with the top entry highlighted above a grid of rival entries and their vote counts.
Explore More Categories

Four main tracks run in parallel across the Qolaba AI Film Challenge. Jump into the one that fits your idea, or enter two of them with different work.

More in Film

Two sister tracks live inside this main category. Enter one, or push a second entry into the other and take another swing at the leaderboard.

FAQ

Questions, answered

The questions we get most from creators before they enter. If yours is not on the list, ping us on Discord or Instagram and we will add it.

So, where is the world?

Sign up, take your two free Qolaba video series generations, and put your world in front of a camera. The strongest world in this track walks away with cash, months of Qolaba, and a global creator spotlight.