November 09, 2023
Ugliest Sweater Showdown
[UPDATE 12.8.23]
Congratulations to the winners of the Ugliest Sweater Showdown! Take a look at the winning designs below:
Winners will receive more information via email, and rewards should be dropped in the next 48-72 hours.
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The Wonderland Season is quickly approaching in Upland, and what better way to embrace the holiday spirit than by participating in our inaugural Ugliest Sweater Showdown!
In this new competition, we're on the hunt for creative individuals to design their very own ugly sweater Wearable. The Upland Team will handpick just ten winning designs, and as a token of our appreciation, these talented designers will be rewarded with 0.3 Spark and the opportunity to see their design come to life as a Wearable in Upland! But that's not all – the top 3 winning designs will also receive a lucrative Chicago Property!
Ugliest Sweater Showdown Details
We are super excited to bring you Uplanders the first Wearable design competition. In the Ugliest Sweater Showdown, we are looking for ten ugly sweater Wearables. The winning Wearable designs will be used as rewards for future challenges and events!
To participate in this competition, players must submit a refined Wearable design in the form of an ugly sweater. Contestants are welcome to submit multiple ugly sweater Wearable designs.
We encourage all participants to focus their creativity on the design and appearance of the ugly sweaters. It's essential to understand that, when our Upland Team assesses the submissions, they will give top priority to the artistic and imaginative aspects of the ugly sweater, including the patterns and colors. The physical shape, pants, and shoes of the Wearables will be secondary considerations.
Rewards
Shortly after the re-submission close date of the Ugliest Sweater Showdown, the Upland Team will carefully review and evaluate all the submissions. From the pool of submissions, we will select only ten winning designs.
Each of the ten winning designs will receive:
- 0.3 Spark
- Their own Ugly Sweater Wearable
The top 3 best designs chosen by the Upland Team will also receive a Chicago property. Here are the addresses for the Chicago properties:
- 1730C W Fullerton Ave, Chicago*
- 2574 N Clybourn St, Chicago*
- 1730B W Fullerton Ave, Chicago*
*Note: The property addresses above have been updated, and were sent to the 3 winners for minting.
Ugliest Sweater Showdown Schedule
- Submissions Open: Thursday, November 9th
- Submissions Close: November 30th, at 9 AM PT
- Re-Submissions Close: Thursday, December 7th, at 9 AM PT
- Winners Announced: Friday, December 8th
Submission Form
Click here to submit your Wearable Design for the Ugliest Sweater Showdown.
Resources & Submission Guidelines
Before proceeding with your Upland User Generated Content (UGC) projects, please ensure that you have downloaded and are utilizing the most up-to-date template files from the official Upland UGC Gitbook. The latest templates are essential to ensure that your creations align with the current standards, specifications, and guidelines set by the Upland Team.
Here are all the required resources and guidelines you will need to use in order for your submissions to be accepted.
General Guidelines
- Players are allowed to submit multiple Wearable designs (each in a separate submission).
- Wearables cannot have any slippers, onesies, wings, or floating objects.
- The Wearable cannot violate any other IP rights.
- The Wearable does not use any official Upland branding or iconography.
- The Wearable does not use any official Miles illustration or iconography.
- The Wearable is not something for which you require permission to sell.
- The Wearable does not include excessive text.
- The Wearable does not use any original IP, characters, brands, or entertainers.
- The Wearable does not contain any defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or violence.
- The Wearable does not use any drug or criminal references.
- The Wearable does not contain any hate speech or derogatory/inappropriate text.
Design Guidelines
- Players must utilize Upland’s Official UGC Wearable Generic Template file as their base. Please refer to the LOD, NFT, and IPFS Wearable Specification Guides for additional information while designing your Wearables.
- File names must be written in this format: “name of Wearable_file type” (example: Rudolph_ugliest_sweater_LOD0.gltf)
- Wearable files (NFT and IFPS only) must pass Upland’s validation tool checks with no errors. Please refer to the images below for examples of screenshots of the validation tool checks that show one submission with file errors and the other that is free from file errors.
- The Wearable does not contain 'gaps' or 'tears' when zoomed in.
- The Wearable does not contain 'pixelated' or 'blurry' areas when zoomed in.
- Upland reserves the right to modify any of the submitted Wearable, including but not limited to scale, dimensions, and colors.
Validation Tool Check
The NFT and IPFS files are the only files that need to be entered into the Legits Validation Tool.
After the Legit Validation Tool Test has been completed, click ‘copy report’.
After clicking ‘copy report,’ a validation tool check with zero errors will appear, as displayed in the screenshot below.
Instructions for Designing a Wearable
- Open the PSD file from Top, Bottom, and footwear
- Check the example design and the placement on the template
- Add your own design according to these coordinates for each body part
- Open the PSD from the NFT version
- Copy each body part into the NFT template
- Open blender and import the GLB for the wearables (both genders)
- Replace the texture image and confirm that everything looks in place
- Export the Male and Female versions
- Repeat the same process for the NFT version and export
Note: Please refer to the Upland Design Gitbook Guide for additional detailed instructions.
Need Some Guidance? Use Our Office Hours!
Do you need assistance or have questions about your designs? We've got you covered! Designers can now get direct answers from Upland designers by joining the #upland-ugc Discord channel. Upland designers will be available to answer your questions on a daily basis in this dedicated Discord channel.
Who Will Have the Ugliest Sweaters in Upland?
This is the inaugural competition of its kind, and we are excited to see the multitude of designs that will be submitted for the Ugliest Sweater Showdown! Uplanders, it's your time to shine – let your creativity run wild and start crafting those hideously stylish sweaters!