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| 3 | +title: Springtime Showdown Art Contest |
| 4 | +date: 2025-02-28 16:00:00 +0000 |
| 5 | +--- |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +This is your moment... proceed with unwavering resolve. |
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| 10 | + |
| 11 | +Like clockwork, we're back again to our regularly scheduled program where you and other osu! art connoisseurs clash in a dazzling moment of artistic brilliance! |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +As always, we have a theme to announce. This iteration, you're asked to... (drumroll, please)... |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +**Draw any of the osu! mascots competing for fun or glory!** |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +Those who haven't been living under a rock have noticed that the tournament scene has been booming for the past few years. To appreciate the massive growth and all the effort involved, it's time for pippi and the crew to join in on the fun. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +**Competition** is the theme, which can mean a lot of things within osu!. Here are some examples to get your creative juices running: |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +- The osu! mascots attending a local osu! LAN event or world-class esports stadium. |
| 22 | +- Mocha versus Alisa drumming it off on the big stage. |
| 23 | +- Mani and Mari matching against each other in ranked osu!mania. |
| 24 | +- pippi drawing her new masterpiece for this very art contest. |
| 25 | +- Don and Taikonator hosting a watch party for pippi's Grand Finals run in the osu! World Cup. |
| 26 | +- Aiko and Tama paying *a community tournament mascot* a visit. |
| 27 | +- Yuzu spending way too much time in `#mappool-feedback`. |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +## Rewards |
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| 31 | +Our mascots aren't going to be the only ones duking it out for absolute glory, as *you* will also compete for some sweet rewards! |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +A selection of the top-voted finalists will be **featured on the main menu** and receive **3 months of osu!supporter**, plus the top 3 will also receive fancy bespoke **profile badges** made from their own creations, alongside being featured as [**limited-time selection of default profile banners**](https://osu.ppy.sh/home/news/2024-07-15-aerial-antics-art-results#new-profile-customisations)! |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +## Rules |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +- **By submitting your artwork to this contest, you grant us permission to use your artwork in the main menu client should it win, and to use it in promotional material for both the game (osu!) and the contest (Springtime Showdown Art Contest).** You retain all rights to your creation and you can sell it and distribute it however you like — it's your work, after all. We're just saying here that if you submit your piece to this contest, you should be okay with us using it. |
| 38 | +- **All entries MUST follow the contest theme and contain AT LEAST one of the osu! official or community mascots.** Otherwise, it's not an osu! contest, is it? |
| 39 | +- **All entries MUST be suitable for all-ages viewing.** The less we have to invoke this rule, the more art we can showcase to the community. |
| 40 | +- **SUBMIT ONLY YOUR OWN WORK. REDRAWING AND COMPOSITE WORKS ARE NOT ALLOWED.** Plagiarism sucks. Don't do it. Someone in the comments will call you out for it as has happened every other time someone's tried and they're going to do more damage to your reputation than us removing your entry from the voting will do. Use only your own work — brushes and the like are fine, but that's it! Don't redraw or trace someone else's work. |
| 41 | +- **Generative art programs or methods (such as AI) are NOT allowed.** This includes any kind of software that has you supply a written or visual prompt and fills in large amounts of details for you. We will know if you do this. If we somehow miss it, the community won't. Don't sully your legacy as an artist! |
| 42 | +- **Participants must keep a full file containing all of their entry's layers available.** We'll only ask you for this if we think it's needed to ascertain any claims regarding plagiarism or the use of generative art tools. If you don't/can't provide us this within a timely manner when we ask, we'll have no choice but to pull your listing from the contest, sorry! |
| 43 | +- **Artist attribution (names, social media handles, etc.) must be limited to no more than three lines total and confined to any corner of your entry.** Being proud of your work is good, just do it in a reasonably small spot of your work. One thing unique to osu!'s history is that we really don't like forced advertisement, and attribution that is too large can come across like it. |
| 44 | +- **Entries MUST meet the resolution requirements for a main-menu piece — namely 2732x1536**. This is automatically checked via the website, and the contest listing won't let you submit an entry even if it's off by ONE pixel. Export your creations at the correct resolution! |
| 45 | +- **Artists should use the custom templates provided ([PSD template](https://assets.ppy.sh/events/fanart/templates/osu%21%20main%20menu%202732x1536.psd?2017) / [PNG template](https://assets.ppy.sh/events/fanart/templates/osu%21%20main%20menu%202732x1536.png?2017)) when composing their piece as a guideline to understand where the osu! cookie will be placed on the main menu and during the voting process.** The circular spot in the middle shows where the main-menu cookie will be when inside the game. Factor this in when designing your piece, as anything inside it is likely not going to be seen. This doesn't mean leaving a big circular hole full of nothing in the middle! Be creative. *Make sure you don't leave it visible in your end result.* |
| 46 | +- **Do NOT leave the dotted osu! cookie template visible in your submission.** |
| 47 | +- **DO NOT LEAVE THE DOTTED osu! COOKIE TEMPLATE VISIBLE IN YOUR SUBMISSION.** |
| 48 | +- **DO NOT LEAVE THE DOTTED osu! COOKIE TEMPLATE VISIBLE IN YOUR SUBMISSION.** |
| 49 | +- **PLEASE check your entries for the dotted osu! cookie template. WE ARE ON OUR KNEES BEGGING.** |
| 50 | +- **If you're using characters from other intellectual properties, do so sparingly.** All the official osu! mascots and the community mascots are fair game, but please avoid using excessive representations of characters from other worlds or franchises in your work — the contest is about osu! foremost, after all. Remember also that the community mascots are someone else's treasured creation, so please treat them with the same respect that you'd treat your own OCs and work. |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +Got any questions, or any urgent matters that need to be looked at? Don't hesitate to [send Hivie a message](https://osu.ppy.sh/community/chat?sendto=14102976) for any inquiries regarding this contest! |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +--- |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +*Header and promotional artwork by finalist [Yuuehan](https://osu.ppy.sh/users/7614399) from the [15th Anniversary Art Contest](https://osu.ppy.sh/home/news/2022-09-15-anniversary-art-contest-results)!* |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +Hyped? Good, your next task is to head over to the [Springtime Showdown Art Contest listing](https://osu.ppy.sh/community/contests/242) once you've finished cooking your masterpiece and drop it there. You may reupload your entry to your heart's desire if you want to make any adjustments, but you only have **20 days** to do so before the doors close off forever (20 March 2025, 18:00 UTC), so don't brood over which brush to use for too long! |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +GLHF! |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +—Hivie & Walavouchey |
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