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Giant Puppet Festival
“Giant Puppet Festival” was a daily AI art challenge on BudgetPixel that ran – . 55 people entered, and voters cast 2,758 votes.
The theme
Create your most imaginative scene of enormous handcrafted puppets towering above a lively street festival filled with performers, crowds, costumes, and celebration
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Winners
Places 4 to 20 · 500 credits each
- 4th@Sealine · Unsettling whimsy takes to the streets1579 Elo
- 5th@meiquro1571 Elo
- 6th@TTRPG_Player · The Giants Have Come to Town1557 Elo
- 7th@uma · entry1550 Elo
- 8th@vrieming · For One Extraordinary Day1547 Elo
- 9th@bleepunc · The Unlikely Giants1547 Elo
- 10th@Troxley · entry1542 Elo
- 11th@TesaranJ · The Last Sun Parade1541 Elo
- 12th@zephyr · entry1536 Elo
- 13th@civildefiance1 · SQUIRREL!!1534 Elo
- 14th@zmrga181530 Elo
- 15th@sarwick · entry1528 Elo
- 16th@VibeAi · entry1527 Elo
- 17th@sant · entry1525 Elo
- 18th@legion · Night of Titans.1525 Elo
- 19th@archminalabib · entry1521 Elo
- 20th@jasonbourne101 · entry1519 Elo
All entries
52 entries, newest first; 8 rated Mature or not yet rated are not shown here.

For One Extraordinary Day

The Unlikely Giants


The giant puppet hands a lantern to a young person in the crowd.

Enjoy the festivities! The spirits are unleashed only one day a year! If you're lucky...

Patchwork Dragon


Giant Puppet at the Festival de las Calaveras

One Woman: One Hundred Strings

Join the Puppets in the Parade

The Light Dragon



Night of Titans.


Indonesian Ondel-onde puppets. Historically used by villagers as ancestral guardian figures to ward off evil spirits and catastrophes; today they are cool cultural icons featured at festivals, weddings, and parades




That's the way to do it!


The Last Sun Parade

Let's kick this festival to high gear~! -----

SQUIRREL!!


Colossal Matador and Mechanical Bull Parade



//City of Towers: Wildnight

Midnight Vampires on the Strip


The whole world is a puppet that the two of us lead and show them the way like ancient gods.


The Giants Have Come to Town



No. 34 of 55 In my opinion, this is one of the best images I’ve ever submitted to the DC. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to really resonate with most of you. Probably because people didn't take the time to let it sink in. 🤔


Giant Puppet Festival in Hell



Unsettling whimsy takes to the streets


#36 out of 55 entries 1477 ELO 103 matchups 41W 47L 8T (44% score
Rules
- One image per person, made for the theme. Submit it from your BudgetPixel assets or upload it (up to 10 MB). An image that does not fit the theme is turned away when you submit it.
- Adult content cannot be entered. The organisers add: No Level4 Adult Content in submission.
- Entries were open from to . Voting ran from to the end, .
- Voters pick the better of two anonymous entries, pair after pair; nobody sees their own entry or the same pair twice. Vote on 15 matchups to earn 150 credits, entry or not.
- Entries are ranked by an Elo rating, as in chess: an entry gains points when voters pick it and loses points when they pass it over, and beating a higher-rated entry earns more.
- When the challenge ended, each entry was posted to its maker's profile, unless they had switched that off when they entered.
Prizes
- 1st place3,000 credits
- 2nd place2,000 credits
- 3rd place1,000 credits
- 4th to 20th500 credits each
- Voting on 15 matchups150 credits
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