18 Jul 2016
osu! mascot design contest
by deadbeat

osu! mascot design contest

by deadbeat

Time to dust off those pens and get that creativity flowing! We're back with another special contest - this time for the intrepid artists among us. We're challenging you to design the new osu!Taiko mascot!

Over the years, we've had multiple people assist with mascot designs. Sarumaru for pippi, crystalsuicune for pippidon, ztrot for Yuzu and Daru for Yuzu and Maria. But we'd like to replace our lovable pippidon with something more official, similar to how Ryuuta stepped down for Yuzu a few years back

What we're looking for in particular, is a full concept/design for the osu!taiko mascot. Currently, pippidon is our posterchild for the gamemode, but we feel that it is perhaps time for her to get a hard-earned vacation and join the rest of the team in the osu! Alumni.

You have free reign over the particulars of your design. Want a huge, hulking wardrummer named Sanchez? Go nuts. Want a schoolgirl called Monoka? That also works. Want to keep pippidon's legacy alive with a fresh take on the concept? That's okay too!

The winner of the fanart contest will receive:

  • Their design accepted formally as the official osu!taiko mascot henceforth
  • osu!artist forum title
  • 12 months of supporter
  • $50 store credit

Second place will receive 3 months of supporter. Third, fourth and fifth place will also receive a month of supporter each.

Rules

  • Everything in your image must be your own work! Don't steal anyone's art, and please don't "trace" anything either. Make your own pose.
  • Don't include any copyrighted characters from outside of osu! Including your own original characters alongside osu! characters is fine.
  • Images must be G-rated and safe-for-work.
  • A full concept must be submitted. This includes name, date of birth, blood type (where applicable), approximate height and weight, and a general outline of their personality and hobbies.
    As a final note, please be aware that the administration reserves the right to request and/or make alterations to the winning entry.

Deadline

Deadline for entries is Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 00:00:00 UTC.

Other time zones:

  • Monday, 15 August 2016, 20:00 Toronto (Canada - Ontario)
  • Monday, 15 August 2016, 20:00 New York (U.S.A. - New York)
  • Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 01:00 London (United Kingdom - England)
  • Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 02:00 Berlin (Germany - Berlin)
  • Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 08:00 Beijing (China - Beijing Municipality)
  • Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 09:00 Tokyo (Japan)
  • Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 10:00 Canberra (Australia - Australian Capital Territory)

How to Enter

  • Post a web-friendly (longest length at 350px maximum) image in the official contest thread
  • Link to a much larger print-friendly image. At least 1600x2800, preferably higher, or vector, if possible. Note:2000x3500 is optimal.
  • You can upload the images on https://up.ppy.sh/ or https://puush.me/
  • You may enter more than one image, but you can only win one grand prize. If you have more than one entry, please keep them all in a single forum post.

Good luck!

—deadbeat

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Rippidon

Awww, I loved the mascot for Taiko mode. :(

Please no anime waifu... Please no anime waifu... please no anime waifu...

make the Inner Oni

a sexy demon girl

we need mascot cute with big boobs

I want harambe to be the next osu!taiko mascot

Warfu Samoyed

I can't believe it :'V

blood type

oh

human or Taiko form?

EishiE Pokefubuki

any form is fine ...i think, right?

I will do a cute little shoehead (Love to Gezo)

LONG LIVE WADA-DON

quien habla español :D asi jugamos

Me for mascot xd

"Images must be G-rated and safe-for-work."
:okno:

If I wanted to create a mascot, would the deadline for PST be 17:00 August 15th?

If only I could draw well...

alright im up for thish!!! \(O3O)/
...

....

wait how does pippidon look like? o___o

blood type??? why though

test

#DONLIVESMATTTER

pippi-don san real form?

crystalsuicune makemecool123

That's pretty much just Pippi,maybe in traditional Japanese festival garb I suppose

Rip PiPi

seems like everyone loves pippidon

uyeah!

Pippidon needs to stay, instead of redoing the character completely - make it a cosplay of Okuu.

Vulkin Empress Junko

why not cirno
shes da strongest :D

Ask OnosakiHito.

I'm joinin this

After I saw this on Dev.Art

I was already thinking of a design xD

I don't know half of those pippi things...

iplaymillions LotusFlower108

Pippi is the mascot of Osu-standard
PippiDon is the mascot of Osu-Taiko
Yuzu is the mascot of Osu-CatchTheBeat
Maria is the mascot of Osu-Mania

Hope this helped

Pls make her cute :з

I would love to,but I suck at art.

"Images must be G-rated and safe-for-work."

dammit

Vulkin Intelli

dont worry we can make the r34 later ;)

Ritzeh Vulkin

hell yea

Loli plz

#pray4pippidon

Well what's this then?
Kind of sucks that she'll be stepping down,but in hindsight it made sense considering how old the design was.
(I based her on the original Pippi,go figure)

I'm not going to participate though because I'm busy (and it'll be weird since I already had my chance so to speak)
so good luck to everyone who's taking part!

give us lepidon

Surono Nwolf

(y)

xtrem3x Nwolf

Lepidon! Lepidon! Lepidon!

12 months or 1 year? o.O

deadbeat -Troke-

yes

Loctav for mascot!

Ayydar Soul Evans

Loctav for mascot!

Surono Soul Evans

this one

I'm on it!

I don't like change :(

Nofool Garpo

did u ever use the skin with pipidon tho 8) in fact i dont know if anyone ever used it... whats pipidon already

Rehadeleted

No.

Anxient OnosakiHito

i know right? its obviously you!

Imma give her nice tiddies

Gonna make fanart :3

Taco will be good for mascot *prepare some mexican*
ok i'm done please someone use slap power to me thanks *ded*

xtrem3x Niko-nyan

Tacocat

Surono xtrem3x

memez

ricchan the drummer :))))

Pippidon noooo Dx

how about deadline for indonesian? (jakarta)

deadbeat NeXt4r_

looking at it, might be better removing all of those timezones, and look into adding either a countdown or linking a site that would convert a set time to your local time.
i may or may not change that at some point. we'll see

Yohanes NeXt4r_

Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 07:00 Jakarta (Indonesia), Bangkok (Thailand)

no! pipi :'c

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no! pipi :'c