[Diary Point = Reporter Eom Ju-yong] AI image generation platform PixAI and AI character chat platform Zeta have kicked off a joint creative contest that invites fans to expand their original characters into both illustrations and stories. Running from October 23 to November 4, 2026, the event will select 76 winners in total, awarding 180 million PixAI credits and 359,000 Zeta Pieces in rewards.
The first track asks participants to create an illustration of their own original character on PixAI and post it with the hashtag #zetaCollab. Thirty winners will be chosen, splitting a total of 36 million credits. The three first-place winners will each receive 6 million credits, nine second-place winners will get 1 million credits each, and 18 third-place winners will receive 500,000 credits each.
In the second track, participants use an illustration made on PixAI as the cover image for a new plot on Zeta, then flesh out the character's name, introduction, personality, and world-building to create a public character card submitted through Zeta's event page. This category will select 16 winners and distribute 108 million credits along with 275,000 Zeta Pieces. The single first-place winner will take home 36 million credits and 50,000 Pieces, the five second-place winners will each receive 7.2 million credits and 25,000 Pieces, and the ten third-place winners will each get 3.6 million credits and 10,000 Pieces.
The third track runs from October 26 to November 4. Participants pick a favorite character from Zeta's collaboration section and introduce it on X (formerly Twitter). Thirty winners will be chosen, sharing a total of 36 million credits and 84,000 Zeta Pieces. Detailed participation guidelines were set to be released on October 26.
Entries must feature characters that participants created themselves; fan art based on characters from existing works or third-party intellectual property is not eligible for prizes. Submitted entries must remain public until the results are announced—works that are deleted or set to private will be disqualified from winning. As a bonus, participants who share the event page on social media before the contest ends will receive 5,000 credits.