12 Dec 2018
Winter 2018 Is Here!
by Ephemeral

Winter 2018 Is Here!

by Ephemeral

The votes are done and dusted, and now it's time for the snow to fall. Winter's well and truly here, and the main menu is ready to show it with the 15 winners from the Winter 2018 Fanart Contest! Check it all out!

2018 has been an interesting year, to put it lightly. You'd think things would be wrapping up for the year but no - there's still plenty left on the horizon before the year's officially set to close between Aspire 2018, the Fall Spotlights and even rumors of a few new Featured Artist announcements hanging in the wings.

But for now, we're all about that chill, and there's very little that's more chill than last year's wintery spin on the circles! theme by none other than the original osu!musician, nekodex. aureole is really something special, and we're excited to bring it back again this year for any who may have missed it last year, or who are joining us for their first osu! winter.

aureole will be keeping the main menu nice and chill with the Winter seasonal backgrounds until the holidays are over. Downloads of the track are available on nekodex's SoundCloud (or over at his Spotify), and if you're after a lossless download, you can name your own price over at his Bandcamp.

Without further ado, let's see which wonderful pieces of art will be joining this chill tune on the main menu this year:

Oh, and if you want to see a full-sized image, make sure to click the banner!

Featuring pippi and Mocha all decked up in reindeer costumes and festive winter dresses, Chiruuu's entry warmed the hearts of 4695 voters, landing a solid first place result.

An absolutely beautiful piece, and well deserving of first place. Well done!

Sporting a jacket-clad pippi enjoying a rest in a wintery park with teeny tiny takes on Aiko, Yuzu and Maria, PisRyder's entry nabbed 4085 votes, scoring second place overall.

Those eyes are absolutely enchanting. Seriously.

Shuuzo's take on Mocha, the Taikonator (in his winter form) Yuzu and pippi enjoying some time in the snow resulted in 3771 icy spheres pelted squarely at Yuzu's face.

He may be able to catch fruit, but he sure can't catch a break. Or snowballs, for that matter.

3701 snowflakes fell into Aiko's grasp in Misakko's compelling piece depicting a rather majestic jaunt through a snow-tinged and aurora-lit sunset.

3653 votes lit up zeyez's beautifully decorated shot of Mocha enjoying some Christmas lights. Oooh, shiny.

3417 voters got stars in their eyes from Wa_coo's almost criminally cute take on Mocha enjoying a walk over a snowy bridge. She's excited that you voted for her, duh.

Enjoying a mountaintop walk with a distinctly Japanese-themed take on pippi, Sylux6 scored 3297 votes. Gorgeous stuff, and beautifully executed.

A new contender for medley-style pieces enters the fray, with D A R K N E S S' work scoring 3202 votes. There's an absurd amount of effort in this piece with over half a dozen unique takes and costumes for a great ensemble of official and community mascots.

Check it out!

Snagging 3108 votes, snowyani2000 is back at it again with a reference-loaded winter wonderland. How many can you pick out?

3066 voters thoroughly approved of [ Pink Dreams ]'s utterly adorable take on pippi enjoying some time in the snow. Did I mention that she's adorable?

llNaokill's gloriously colourful take on a rugged-up pippi complete with translucent scarf won over the hearts of 2991 voters, and rightfully so!

A really refreshing take on the classic firelit tones of winter done in a super creative way.

elizabethgg's snapshot of pippi and Mocha looking out over a dimly lit bridge on a cold winter's night is like two hundred times more comfortable than it aught to be, and 2865 voters agreed.

It's Maria time! ShovelKun showcased everybody's favorite osu!mania mascot in all of her adorable glory beside a simplistic but beautifully executed iconographic background, impressing 2858 voters.

Oh deer! ovelhenta's piece of pippi snapping a candid shot with some of the local wildlife in a snowy forest is a beautifully colourful display of some classic winter tones with a stylistic touch. 2786 voters hit that like button!

All rugged up and rose-tinged from the cold, SJPumpkin's beanie-clad pippi saw 2474 voters show their support in full.


Make sure to check out the full results over at the contest listing page, there's a lot of really great entries!

It was a real surprise to see so many new faces in the running this year, and we were super happy to get the opportunity to see some new artists in the community flex their creative muscles.

As always, we were astounded by the sheer volume of entries, though we're a little worried that perhaps there's too many choices available for people to vote for! You can always trust the osu! community to continually outdo itself.

All the winning entries listed here will see their artists snag 2 months of osu!supporter for their efforts, and all of them are also now available in-game as part of the Winter seasonal background pack.

From all of us here at the osu!team, we wish you all a happy holidays, and a wonderful New Year to come. Be good to one another!

—Ephemeral

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why do people like loli drawings

Zokilence paper2222

its cute lol (im 15)

paper2222 Zokilence

yeah me 2 years later would agree

I'LL TAKE YOUR WHOLE STOCK !

ItsNotYeBoi Jazz Beone

I'LL TAKE YOUR *ENTIRE STOCK

2 Years to make animation 14 weeks to send the peoples to think what they like 12 days to put in Osu! and 9 days to be Pround of all the hard work

Actually, I like the 8th picture :)

i love Pink Dreams ^^

Ah yes, Aureole is becoming the main theme again. I was expecting nekodex doing
another winter's s vibe music, but this is fine tho

They are neat :3

They look so great! congrats!

Can't believe I got 42nd (´・ω・`)

great wallpapers

This single is very amazing. I love it.

Every single one is amazing and I hope for even better art this spring!

wow this is very amazing I love it and I was fascinated by the new Christmas texture

zeyez is the real winner tbh

aSpIrE 2018 wHeN

Amazing set <3

Hi

Winter may be here, but where's Aspire???

ясно, хуета. Зимой играю без артов

zeyez, yours was my favorite.

ayy, nice job to all!

Schnee wird zu Wasser
Wasser zu Dampf
Dampf steigt gen Himmel
und es ist Winter.

nummer_9 J1NX1337

das hat voll den goethe vibe

Omg, I'm so so happy! I don't believe that I took 4th place in my actually 3rd run. It's a real surprise for me! TuT I want to thank everyone who decided to vote for me, I really appreciate it! Also congratulations to the winners and other participants. There were many underestimated artworks that should rank waaay higher though. I hope these artists didn't lose their faith and will participate in other contests. ^u^

congrats to everyone! i didn't place this time but eh who cares there were a lot of good works this time around that deserved to be up there

Ah I placed pretty low. But I'm not upset! I had fun and I can't wait for next season! Congrats to the winners!!

It was fun to participate for the first time in this contest, and also to have done my first drawing with some background!
(If that is how you can call what I did)

the big gay lol
this a joke

fon

i got #24, thank you to everyone who voted for me!!

krap I flopped

My Angel Futaba snowyani2000

Your entries are always my favorite, ngl

Maki Konuri snowyani2000

xD

Telecastic player_9461256

oh yes ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

my lovly update

Congrats to everyone that participated and the winners! I got in 19th place in my first attempt, definetly gonna participate in all of osu's fanart contests!

Wonderful art, I wish I could create such artworks too...

so many great artists

Unexpected first place tbh, the quality isn't nearly as good but aye, I guess osu community's just all about them lolis :D

piopeko Lucridential

Exactly was i was thinking!

congrats to the winners tho :3 really nice ones in there :3 (even though sheepeydarkness' clay one was my fav tbh lul)

Someday taikonator will be our mascot... someday

AAAHH IM SO HAPPY

Congratulations to everyone!! i got 12th place;;;;; tysm ♥♥

круутоо

круто

Where's the download link to the background pack so I can enjoy this all year 'round!

Greydus BrowNer101

most of my picks aren't there :(

𝙒𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 ♥
Also, thank you guys, I wish the best holidays for you :)

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𝙒𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 ♥
Also, thank you guys, I wish the best holidays for you :)