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Unexpected Portal
“Unexpected Portal” was a daily AI art challenge on BudgetPixel that ran – . 70 people entered, and voters cast 3,533 votes.
The theme
Create your most imaginative unexpected portal artwork glowing doorways, mysterious light, hidden worlds, surreal rooms, magical discoveries, sci-fi gateways, or an ordinary place transformed by something unknown.
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Winners
Places 4 to 20 · 500 credits each
- 4th@funwap · The universe wasn’t outside the door. It was behind the wall1598 Elo
- 5th@germancowboy · The Other Side of Ordinary1583 Elo
- 6th@panos · The Gate To A Better World1578 Elo
- 7th@Hephzibah · The Trolley Problem1575 Elo
- 8th@wizfield · The Rift’s Breath: Wind From Another World1571 Elo
- 9th@battal41 · 🌟🌈🎨 Beyond the Rainbow Threshold 🎨🌈🌟1567 Elo
- 10th@oguzsasi · entry1564 Elo
- 12th@beastxyz · entry1554 Elo
- 13th@simondolinsekk · In a world swallowed by ash and silence, a lone wanderer...1553 Elo
- 14th@JMN · The best of both worlds...1548 Elo
- 15th@Unleashed · An unexpected portal from despair to salvation.1547 Elo
- 16th@thedarkrider · Ruins of an ancient portal1545 Elo
- 17th@zeno · entry1540 Elo
- 18th@insainity1538 Elo
- 19th@jkbully85 · The Threshold1536 Elo
- 20th@hamsterwheel · entry1536 Elo
- 21st@tdr · Walking toward the unknown gateway1530 Elo
All entries
70 entries, newest first; 4 rated Mature or not yet rated are not shown here.
Beyond The Green Silence
An unexpected portal from despair to salvation.
Beyond This Gate, Every Answer
The Forest of Lost Doors
Which way should I go in.. Maybe point of no return.
In a world swallowed by ash and silence, a lone wanderer crosses the black wasteland, his red lantern the last heartbeat of light. Ahead, the ruins of a castle pulse with a crimson vortex tearing open the sky — a doorway to something anc...
Unexpected Portal - where to go
The Rift’s Breath: Wind From Another World
The Gate To A Better World
Something's coming......
Another world beyond the portal
School girl finds a portal with a future more corrupted version of her. Is this what fate has for her or can she find another path?
The best of both worlds...
When no one is around to help you
The unknown portal opening up and wanting to pull him in to the unknown has left him helpless
Metropolitan Hell Rift
Unexpected Portals" To Other Worlds - Which World Shall I Choose
A Secret Passage
Walking toward the unknown gateway
Ruins of an ancient portal
The Trolley Problem
#46 out of 74 entries
Unexpected Portal in Boudoir Room
When hell is full, evil will rule the world.
This portal is unexpected. If it was expected, then it wouldn't be as fun.
Portal Appear: Net Catching A Universe
The Other Side of Ordinary
Unexpected Portal appears during work
The universe wasn’t outside the door. It was behind the wall
The Threshold
#27 out of 74
Some portals don't take you to another world… they take you back to the moments that built yours.
Timeless, poetic, and psychologically deep. "Perhaps every traveler calls it something different.
A portal to the other realm
I just want to do my laundry....
WHO to pick
When the worlds collide
You need to go circles a lot of time and ritual happen.. The Unknown Portal? Too Horrified
It looked like an ordinary doorway... until it opened to everything impossible. ✨🚪🌌
At the edge of ruin, a portal to a better future.
🌟🌈🎨 Beyond the Rainbow Threshold 🎨🌈🌟
The World Beyond
Platform 9 3/4 Revisited
What happened????
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 130 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 place6,000 credits
- 2nd place4,500 credits
- 3rd place3,000 credits
- 4th to 20th500 credits each
- Voting on 15 matchups130 credits
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