TL;DR: The H3 Contest is closed and the winners are in. On the training side: 106 LoRAs from 52 creators, 1,350,000 Buzz across 18 prizes, and 18 different people taking one home. On the content side: 1,015 videos from 263 creators across nine crucibles, and 933,200 Buzz to the top three in each. That's 2,283,200 Buzz and 45 prizes in all, won by 34 different creators.
What you made
Training. Five weeks ago we asked a simple question: with reference to video this good, what is a LoRA still for? You answered with 78 Style LoRAs, 21 Concepts and 7 Camera Control LoRAs, all trained on H3.
Some of these taught H3 a look it had never seen. Some taught it an idea you can't show with a reference image. A few taught it how to move a camera. Thank you to everyone who trained, uploaded and shared one.
Content. Over three weeks we ran nine crucibles, three a week, for short H3 videos: horror, cyberpunk, westerns, fantasy, noir, sci-fi and a meme crucible every week. You entered 1,015 videos, and the community voted on every one of them.
How the winners were picked
Every category has two podiums. Staff Picks were chosen by our moderators: six of them each picked their favorites per category, the picks were tallied, and ties were settled by a vote. Community Picks come from genuine engagement from unique real users: downloads, collects, reactions and on-site image usage. Comments and tips don't count, and engagement from brand new or duplicate accounts is filtered out.
These two podiums are for the training contest. Every podium pays 1st - 100,000 Buzz, 2nd - 75,000 Buzz, 3rd - 50,000 Buzz. Winners get the animated winner badge for their podium, and everyone who entered a LoRA gets the training participation badge. Crucible winners are decided by community votes in each crucible (see below).
Placed twice? You got the bigger prize
The rule is one prize per person. This time that rule actually mattered: several creators placed in both Staff Picks and Community Picks, or in more than one category.
Instead of just bumping them off a podium, we gave each of those creators the biggest single prize they placed for, and the next entry in line moved up into the spot they left. Two creators went up from Staff 2nd to Community 1st this way. On the Staff side, two more moved up a place, and the mods' alternate joined the Concept podium.
Camera Control was the tightest category. Every entry that could have taken Community 3rd or Staff 3rd belonged to someone who'd already won a bigger prize. So we didn't leave that Buzz on the table: the two unclaimed 3rd place prizes became two extra Community places in Style, the category you entered most. That's still all 1,350,000 Buzz, paid out to 18 different creators.
🏆 Staff Picks
🎨 Style
1st - Minecraft For MiniMax H3 by Kayot
2nd - SumiInk by RisingV
3rd - Felt Stop-Motion Style by joyy114
💡 Concept
1st - zero gravity 101 by crafted101
2nd - ROOMS : Onsen by Z1os
3rd - Thunder Cat by CitronLegacy
🎥 Camera Control
1st - Exposure Slider by alcaitiff
2nd - H3 Dutch Angle Slider by Cosmic_Crafter
🌟 Community Picks
🎨 Style
1st - Cinematic Fantasy by Nugus
2nd - ta86_inkriot by tehalex86
3rd - Rough Sketch Nature by FreijaFoxy
4th - Disney Golden Age Style by Corruptedcupid
5th - Re:Zero Anime Style by tazmannner379
Style gets two extra places this time: 4th - 50,000 Buzz and 5th - 50,000 Buzz. They're paid from the two Camera Control 3rd place prizes nobody was eligible to take (see "Placed twice?" above).
💡 Concept
1st - Minimax Ghost (halloween) by PinkPromptPrincess
2nd - 1920s Silent Film Intertitles by app1ecore
3rd - Eleptor's Furry Anthro by Eleptor
🎥 Camera Control
1st - Motion speed slider by FrogOnStilts
2nd - Datamoshing by b111111111111111111
🎬 Crucible Winners
Each crucible's pool started at 100,000 Buzz and grew with every paid entry, then split 50/30/20 across the top three by community vote. These prizes are already paid: the crucibles awarded them when they closed.
Horror: Six Seconds of Dread
1st - tsolful - 53,100 Buzz
2nd - app1ecore - 31,860 Buzz
3rd - B0rghese - 21,240 Buzz
Cyberpunk: Neon and Bad Decisions
1st - evk3 - 51,550 Buzz
2nd - dkpc69 - 30,930 Buzz
3rd - thalaski - 20,620 Buzz
Civitai Memes: Week One
1st - Moonbear_AIArt - 50,900 Buzz
2nd - Sillycat83 - 30,540 Buzz
3rd - The_Wall_of_Goat - 20,360 Buzz
Western: High Noon in Six Seconds
1st - FuenfFingerFaultier - 52,150 Buzz
2nd - Moonbear_AIArt - 31,290 Buzz
3rd - Petishamiaou - 20,860 Buzz
Fantasy: Swords, Spells and Big Skies
1st - Sillycat83 - 51,750 Buzz
2nd - TheVideoGuy - 31,050 Buzz
3rd - Grimm0 - 20,700 Buzz
Civitai Memes: Week Two
1st - Coo1er_ - 51,000 Buzz
2nd - Herastura - 30,600 Buzz
3rd - Moonbear_AIArt - 20,400 Buzz
Noir: Everybody Is Guilty
1st - Sillycat83 - 52,300 Buzz
2nd - Moonbear_AIArt - 31,380 Buzz
3rd - evk3 - 20,920 Buzz
Sci-Fi: Out There
1st - Moonbear_AIArt - 52,350 Buzz
2nd - RLS_Animation - 31,410 Buzz
3rd - FuenfFingerFaultier - 20,940 Buzz
Civitai Memes: Week Three
1st - Moonbear_AIArt - 51,500 Buzz
2nd - Sillycat83 - 30,900 Buzz
3rd - _PD_ - 20,600 Buzz
Special shout out to Moonbear_AIArt, who placed in six of the nine crucibles and won three of them outright, and to Sillycat83, who placed in four and won two.
When do I get paid?
Crucible prizes are already in your account. Training prizes and all the badges go out over the next few days. Everyone who entered a crucible gets the content participation badge. You'll see the Buzz in your account and the badge on your profile. If something looks wrong after that, reply here and we'll sort it out.
Next time
If you're planning for the next contest: running a crucible, challenge or bounty on your own entry is allowed, and it's a good way to get people using it. What we act on is fake engagement, like alt accounts and bought reactions.
Thank you
Thanks to the six moderators who went through every entry, to everyone who trained something for H3, and to everyone who entered and voted in the crucibles. Browse every LoRA in the H3 Training Contest collection.
Congrats to all 34 of you. Go make the next one.