2025 Design Easter Eggs
🐣 Get ready to unleash your creativity! It's time for the Egg Design Extravaganza! 🎨 Design the most eggstraordinary eggs and see them come to life in the game!
If your design cracks the competition, here's what you win:
- 🏆 Your design immortalized as in-game furniture!
- 🥚 A couple of eggs scattered on the ocean of your choosing!
- ✨ The coveted Gilded Egg trophy if you don't already have it, the ultimate bragging right!
Entry thread
Ready to hatch your creations? Upload them on the entry page and let the eggstravaganza begin! 🥚🎨
Submit your eggscellent designs by Friday, February 21st, 2025, at 11:59 PM game time. Don't scramble, start designing!
Rules
- The uploaded image file name must include your pirate name and ocean; the egg's name is your choice. Example file name: EGG_2025-Clotho-Cerulean-Design_Name
- Images must be 256 x 256 pixels
- Images must be in .png format
- You can submit up to 8 designs
- Upload the flat square that will be rendered onto an egg shape, not the finished egg-shaped design. You can upload the rendered eggs as an extra, but those don't count for judging.
- The design must be your original work - you have to create the design yourself.
- References to copyrighted intellectual properties should be excluded from the entries.
- You may use reference materials for your work, but please acknowledge it in your post if you base your work substantially on that reference.
- You do not need to acknowledge any game art used as reference material.
Basic guidelines
- Wrap it up seamlessly! Your design should flow around the egg with no ugly seams. Test it first —no cracked designs, if possible!
- Test this by laying two copies of your design side by side and checking if it has an unsightly seam running down the egg.
- Please note that while we encourage artists to present seamless designs, a seam is acceptable if the egg looks good when rendered.
- If you cannot make a seamless design, no matter how hard you try, submit your entry anyway if you feel your design is good!
- Remember the shape-changing effect of putting your design around an egg. A design that looks sensible in a square template could look strange on the final egg model.
- Keep in mind that your design may be rotated for the final egg.
- The scene also burns out the details, so make the whole thing slightly darker than you would think. Slightly!
- Keep it simple. The design has to work on a relatively small object; make sure your design shines through.
Got questions or comments, or just want to say Hi!? Join us in the Discord event post :)
Tutorials and Design Tips
New to egg design? Check out these eggspert tutorials to get cracking on your masterpiece!
- This YPPedia page shows the winning Easter eggs since 2006.
- Egg Design contains some tutorials for designing egg furniture.
- Faeree's 3DS Max 2018 Tutorial with Photoshop 3DS Max tutorial with updated instructions and files for 3DS Max and Photoshop.
- Greylady's Seamless skin tutorial for Photoshop Tutorial for how to check if your design is seamless.
- Mantid's Egg design viewer Quickly get a close to true render of an egg design
- Ecastasy's Eggtastic Blender Tutorial A Blender 4.0 tutorial for all in one 3D egg rendering (outline included)!
- More extensive links can be viewed at Art:Helpful art tutorials and resources
Art creation
Competition files
- If you need the basic egg mesh file, the Studio Max 3D and Photoshop files are available for download here or you can find them pinned in Discord for zip download.
- Here you can find the Photoshop Egg Outline file
You can use these if you wish to test your design and have a 3D modeling program. Note that you do not need to do this to enter - only if you want to try it out yourself.
- If you're keen to test it, there are easy downloads of 30 days free trial versions of some 3D modeling software (e.g., 3D studio max or Blender).
- To get the correct viewpoint for the eggs for those of you also playing with 3DS Max: use the camera angle and render at 640x480.
✨✨ If you have any updated instructions or tutorials to share, feel free to update the Egg Design page or the corresponding tutorial, as well as this section. Alternatively, if you prefer, send a petition "FAO Clotho" with the information. Thank you! 📨
Rendering!
Just like in previous years, our egg rendering will likely take place on Discord. It’s a fantastic way to bring your artwork to life and connect with fellow designers.
- For rendering please go to [Discord Rendering]
In this Discord channel you can post your flat designs with the following naming scheme: Yourname -Eggname # _skin.png. The # should be your version number.
Links to previous entries!
- 2024: entries flat version -- entries rendered versions
- 2023: entries flat version -- entries rendered versions
- 2022: entries flat version -- entries rendered versions
- 2021: entries flat version -- entries rendered versions
- 2020: entries flat version -- entries rendered versions
- 2019: entries flat version -- entries rendered versions
- 2018: entries flat version -- entries rendered versions
- 2017: entries flat version -- entries rendered versions
- 2016: entries flat version -- entries rendered versions
- 2015: entries flat version -- entries rendered versions
- 2014: Entries flat version -- Entries rendered version
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- 2010: Entries flat version -- Entries rendered version
- 2009: Entries flat version -- Entries rendered version
- 2008: Entries flat version -- Entries rendered version
- 2007: Entries flat version -- Entries rendered version
- 2006: Entries flat version -- Entries rendered version
Thanks to everyone who contributed to rendering and updating YPPedia pages in the past and those who I hope will too this year. 🙏 Your help is much appreciated—thanks in advance! 👏
Ready, set, design! This Eggomelet wouldn't be the same without you all. Let's make this year's eggstravaganza eggceptional! 🐣🎨
P.S. I need more egg puns :p