Lunar Lobster 23.04 Wallpaper Competition

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Calling all artists, graphic designers and avid fans of interstellar crustaceans…

It’s time for the Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) wallpaper competition! With the upcoming release just a few short months away, we want to ensure the next release is packed with some amazing community wallpapers.

As in competitions past, we’ll be collecting submissions here on the Ubuntu Discourse via this thread. After the submission window closes, members of the community can vote on their favorite entries. The top FIVE EIGHT submissions will be included in the Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster release image!

If you’d like to join in the fun, there are a few important rules to keep out of hot water:

  • You must own the rights to the image you are submitting, it should be your original work of art.
  • The full quality image must be 3840x2160px. We ask that submissions not exceed 10MB. PNG or JPEG formats are acceptable.
  • Please ensure you create a high quality image. Avoid image compression artifacts, pixelation, chromatic aberration and noise. Please do not add any watermarks, names or logos. See also these helpful guidelines from GNOME on screen backgrounds.
  • When posting your image, please include a note that you are licensing the image as CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY 4.0. If you do not specify a license we will assume CC BY-SA 4.0. By entering the competition you are agreeing to these license terms.
  • Along with your artwork, please include a title and your Twitter handle so we can properly tag you.
  • Submissions don’t have to be codename (Lobster) themed. We love seeing all kinds of diverse artwork.
  • See this page for detailed information regarding our rules.

Here are the important dates you’ll need to remember:

2023-01-10T00:00:00Z - Submission window opens
2023-02-06T00:00:00Z - Submission window closes and start of voting period
2023-02-17T00:00:00Z - Voting period closes
2023-02-17T02:00:00Z - The Winners are announced and chosen wallpapers are reviewed then sent to the packaging team for inclusion in Lunar Lobster!

In a creative pinch? Check out the results from previous wallpaper competitions:

Ubuntu 22.04 Results
Ubuntu 22.10 Results

Don’t be shellfish! Show us your claw-some art skills!


RESULTS

Due to the incredible number of submissions this round, we’ve decided to expand the competition to include the top EIGHT submissions.

Here are the winners of the Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster Wallpaper Competition:

Submission Final :heart: Count
:star:WINNER - Copper mountain - @eduardo-battaglia 40
:star:WINNER - Startrail - @mizuno-as 26
:star:WINNER - Wallpaper 01 - @gixo 23
:star:WINNER - Warm filament - @eduardo-battaglia 23
:star:WINNER - Winter’s Leaving - @gixo 20
:star:WINNER - Flow - @manuej 20
:star:WINNER - Lunar Catcher & Starlight - @espio347 19
:star:WINNER - Multiverse - @manuej 19
Wallpaper 03 - @gixo 18
Moon’s Peak - @gafreax 18
Perception - @manuej 16
Wink - @mizuno-as 14
Persistent - @manuej 14
The Lobster Light Variant - @foraginoodle 13
The Lobster Light Dark Variant - @foraginoodle 13
Space Crustacean Dark - @oklopfer 13
A mountain river - @szymonsd 13
Sunset in Miraflores - @eduardo-battaglia 11
backwards forward - @alexanderhecht 11
Space Crustacean Light - @oklopfer 11
Skyline - @lvoytek 11
CoberPeak - @manuej 11
Somewhere in time - @entropydaemon 10
Lonely Skyline - @lvoytek 10
rainbow somewhere in sweden - @alexanderhecht 10
My Submission - @realritik 9
Moon Phases - @danlorenzi1 9
corn field - @alexanderhecht 9
MollyLane - @manuej 9
Lobster’s Dream - @meetdilip 8
Ubuntu Lunar Wallpaper Lobster - @conlenov2k 8
The Puzzle - @meetdilip 8
Lunar Light Neon - @realritik 8
Excuse me - @mizuno-as 7
first snow - @alexanderhecht 7
Galaxy of Stars - @arraybolt3 7
Sleeping boats - @marco-emme 7
Perspective - @marco-emme 7
The Dreaming Lobster - @meetdilip 6
New Site - @bazylevnik0 6
lobsters teleport to the moon - @alexanderhecht 6
lunar lobster - @Blenderudit 6
Bus Stop - @danlorenzi1 6
Luna and Lobster - @arraybolt3 6
Siriacus - @eduardo-battaglia 5
The Bold Statement - @meetdilip 5
Alone with the moon - @tempun00n 5
summer in the forest - @alexanderhecht 5
winter in wuppertal - @alexanderhecht 5
Friend’s Forge - @arraybolt3 5
Alone - @marco-emme 5
As Bright as The Moon & Starry - @meetdilip 4
my 2nd submission - @realritik 4
Colourful - @meetdilip 4
Lunar Light Warm - @realritik 4
Lunar Light Glow - @realritik 4
ubuntu orange - @realritik 4
Ubuntu Lunar Wallpaper Logo - @conlenov2k 3
Tiranga - @meetdilip 3
Lunar Black - @realritik 3
Ubuntu Lunar Wallpaper White - @conlenov2k 2
Fish Underwater - @conlenov2k 2
Turtle - @conlenov2k 2
Vector - @wclifton968 1
Ubuntu Lunar Wallpaper Yellow - @conlenov2k 1

Honorable Mentions

Submission Final :heart: Count Notes
Dramatic - @eduardo-battaglia 25 This entry was too similar to Copper mountain

Next Steps

  • All winning entries will be reviewed and prepped for admission into the upcoming release.
  • If your entry was chosen, you may be asked to provide your submission at a higher resolution.
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WebP, PNG and JPEG formats are preferred.

SVG is probably even more preferred because it is resolution independent. GNOME has been shipping SVG backgrounds for a while now.

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UPDATED: The Ubuntu Discourse currently doesn’t allow the uploading of SVG images for security reasons. We may reach out to the winners and ask for a version of their artwork in that format if available.

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As Bright as The Moon

Starry

starry  3 4k

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Here are my entries for the competition:
Lunar Catcher


Starlight

Link for PNG/SVG Files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eLnghGoGRIITWRGKN6Ej64YKj1P1T3XJ?usp=share_link

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Lobster’s Dream

4K version

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The Dreaming Lobster

8 Likes

Wink

4K version is here http://people.ubuntu.com/~mizuno-as/wallpapers/IMG_3074.jpg

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Excuse me

4K version is here http://people.ubuntu.com/~mizuno-as/wallpapers/IMG_4440.jpg

resize-IMG_4440

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Startrail

4K version is here http://people.ubuntu.com/~mizuno-as/wallpapers/IMGP0245.jpg

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blobs-l This is my submission; the image is a vector image but this version was exported from SVG to PNG via Inkscape (Ubuntu Discourse does not allow image uploads to SVG) but this is truly my first ever published vector image and first one I have ever made that isn’t an adaptation of someone else’s work or is text-only.

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subnew
my submission / twitter : @realritikthapa

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my 2nd submission / twitter : @realritikthapa
drive link : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zRaVd6NoJ5jBvKg_uFzz9hPSDU76NTGS?usp=share_link

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“New Site” CC BY-SA 4.0
in flickr: bazylevnik0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bazylevnik0


src: bazylevnik0.github.io/out/newsite.svg

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The Lobster

Twitter:MitsubaCyanShu
Day/light

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pcYRcIvpO5DtPgEYylOElyE1CyUU7SEF

Wait did i upload it here,right?

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Dark

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pcYRcIvpO5DtPgEYylOElyE1CyUU7SEF

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Wallpaper 03:

4k version can be downloaded from here.


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Wallpaper 01:

My Twitter: @notgixo
4k version can be downloaded from here


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Just a reminder - not all submissions need to be “lunar” or “lobster” related. We’d like a variety of different backgrounds :slight_smile:

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since gnome 42,there’s picture-dark-uri. It would be nice to have both light dark variants of wallpaper.

i feel it maybe out of scope for this community competition participants to include light and dark variants for their submitted wallpapers but the default wallpapers shipped by ubuntu that has the mascot should atleast support both variants.

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