I am now making some very fancy wallpapers in Blender, and I found there is a contest where you can submit your wallpaper, and the best ones gets included in next Ubuntu release. I want to participate in 15.04 wallpaper contest, but I need to know
- When does it start?
- How do I participate?
- What is minimal image resolution?
- How many samples must I use in Cycles to make it useful (non-noisy)?
2 Answers
I doubt it has started yet. 14.10's contest started in August. This is what Iain Farrell had to say:
- Images shouldn’t be too busy and filled with too many shapes and colours, a similar tone throughout is a good rule of thumb.
- A single point of focus, a single area that draws the eye into the image, can also help you avoid something too cluttered.
- The left and top edges are home to Ubuntu’s Launcher and Panel so be careful to consider how your images look in place so as not to clash with the user interface. Try them out on your own desktop, see how they feel.
- Try your image at different aspect ratios to make sure something important isn’t cropped out on smaller/ larger screens at different resolutions.
- Take a look at the wallpapers guidance on the Ubuntu Wiki regarding the size of images. Our target resolution is 2560 x 1600.
- Break all the rules except the resolution one! :D
Looking at this OMG! Ubuntu! article, submissions are apparently made to a Flickr pool.
6Last year for 14.04 the contest started towards the end of January, and I don't see anything about the 15.04 contest yet.
While you are waiting, you can read the official guidelines. The desired format is 2560 x 1600 but it should support a variety of sizes listed there.
