Hi All!
Let's get this sucker started! I forgot to post to RS when I started the Cel Contest last year! So I am going to make sure I post for the Sketch Contest!
In case anyone did not know Anime-Beta is a forum for collectors to meet and chat about cels, sketches and production art of all kinds! Keep up to date on collection keeping practices, and enjoy the hobby in general!
Almost every year we try to run a contest for Cels and a contest for Sketches! It's great fun and an interesting way to learn about new shows and art that has made it's way to market!
Any Beta members can enter and if you are not yet a Beta member shoot me an email and I will send you an invite!
Forum address is: anime-beta.com
Official Rule Changes -
CATEGORIES:
(S) = sketch
(H) = Hanken
(MS) = Model Sketch
(P) = Painting (must be on paper)
(A) = Autograph
(Ill) = Illustration
(St) = Storyboard
(Sh) = Shikishi
(Hy) = Hybrid
Accessory - Emphasis on what the character is holding, using, swinging, playing, aiming. (S)
Action - Scenes of action, movement, motion.(S)
Background - No characters allowed. (S)
Bliss - Dreamy, joyful, heavenly, euphoric. (S)
Blood on the Ground - Characters on the verge of death, or those that really are gravely injured, dying, or dead.(S)
Comic/Manga Art - Original art from comic artists and manga-kas (S, p, Hy, Ill)
Fan Art - Made by you or another artist. (S, P)
Femininity - Delicacy, gentleness, maidenly (S)
Tomboys - For all those lovely ladies that are redefining what it means to be a woman! (S)
Funny - Laugh out loud moments. (S)
FURRIES (have a cel of a furry friend? A dog, a cat, a cabbit, a catgirl/boy? a Kero..... you know ANYTHING with fur) (S)
Group - Art of two or more characters. (S)
Hanken - Art used for merchandise or other non-production special circumstances. Hankens are not allowed in any other category except hentai. (H)
Heroic - Hero/Heroine saves the day! Heroically! (S)
Hybrid - Artwork that incorporates original artwork with xeroxed work. More than 50% of the drawing must be original art. Hybrid artwork is not allowed in any other category. (Hy)
Itadakimasu! (Our favorite characters stuffing their faces with deliciousness) (S)
Love - Kissing, hugging, cuddling, any displays of affection, innocent or physical – just not explicit. (S)
Mech and Tech - Robots, vehicles, ships, cars, gundams, Oh MY! (S)
Muscles - Beef, brawn flesh, sinew, tendon. (S)
Bishonen - Young men whose beauty (and sex appeal) transcends the boundary of gender. (S)
Outfit - Best dressed, emphasis on clothes and costumes. (S)
Rage - Mad, angry, extreme agitation. (S)
Shikishii/Signatures - Original signatures and/or artwork drawn by industry artists. Only the artist's signature and accompanying sketch are allowed for submission, all other images must be cropped out.
Shocked - Stunned, horrified, utter dismay. (S)
Sorrow - Tear-jerkers, sadness. (S)
Special Effect - Power bursts, transformation effects, etc. (S)
Tranquility - Characters who have found their inner peace. (S)
Villainy - Archenemies, evil scientists, meanies, wicked bad guys. (S)
OP/ED/Eyecatch – Cels used only in these special animated sequences. These sketches are not allowed in any other category. (S).
OPTIONAL: Animated - Short sequences of animated artwork. (S)
OPTIONAL: Hentai/Yaoi/Yuri - The risque genres, nudity not a requirement however it must be from a Hentai, Yaoi, or Yuri anime with a higher maturity rating! (S, H)
OPTIONAL: Settei - Characters, items or scenery. Settei are not allowed in any other category. (MS)
OPTIONAL: Back to the Start - The initial draft of how the sequence should run. (St)
OPTIONAL: Ah! My Eyes! Mye Eyes! - The ugliest, most poorly drawn sketch you own. No random body-part submissions, please! Seriously hideous artwork only. (S)
OPTIONAL: Eyes on Me - Anime Eyes, love them hate them, they must be the focus of the cel. (S)
OPTIONAL: Mash-ups! - Those partial sketches which are nothing without all their parts, or go Zany a creative mash-up of sketches from different animes! (i.e. multiple sketches in one image only exists on the internet)
OPTIONAL: POSTERIORS - the Backs of anime in a non sexual way. (do you have a cel of someone's butt?, the back of their head? the back of their knees? do you feel it is not appreciated because its someones back, this is the category for you!) (S)
ELIGIBILITY RULES
1.) You must be a registered member of Anime-Beta by the start of the submission process.
2.) You must physically own all artwork that you submit. You may not submit artwork which has been sold, or for which a sale is pending. Submitted artwork does not have to be posted in your online gallery.
3.) Submitted artwork may not include watermarks or any other type of 'tag' that could affiliate it with a gallery or owner.
4.) If you submit artwork for consideration in this contest, you must vote for all categories. The only exceptions are the optional categories. These categories are both optional to vote in and optional to submit artwork to. However, you submit artwork to an optional category, you must vote in that category.
5.) Even if you do not submit artwork, you may still vote in any or all of the categories.
SUBMISSION RULES
1.) Participants are eligible to enter the contest in 9 standard categories and 3 optional categories, for a total of 12 pieces of artwork submitted.
2.) While a participant may choose to enter 12 pieces of artwork, you are not required to submit twelve items. You may enter fewer items.
3.) In order to cut down on bandwidth usage, please limit your entries to the following dimensions:
I am VERY reasonable about size requirements, and am not going to be a fiddly crazy person. So just be reasonable and keep in mind that Survey Monkey does limit the size of the upload for each image and sometimes it is resized without my permission. If you have any concerns with how your piece looks in the voting survey, please bring it to my attention I will do everything I can to accommodate you!
Standard: 600 pixels wide, 300kb in size
Horizontal pan: 800 pixels wide, 300kb in size
Vertical pan: 800 pixels high, 300kb in size
Animated: same pixel restrictions as above, size limit is increased to 800k.
4.) Artwork which was previously entered into the Anime-Beta Awards is eligible for re-entry, provided that the winning piece has changed owners. If you choose to submit a previous winning piece, you must e-mail the contest coordinator before submitting it. This way, the organizer knows the piece has changed owners and that it is a qualified entry. If you do not e-mail the coordinator, your entry will be disqualified. Please check previous awards websites carefully.
4a.) New rule all Silver and Bronze winners from 2011 back are allowed to re-enter and try for gold, I will only be checking entries against the gold winners, no winners from the 2013 Sketch contest are allowed to re-enter for 2015. Gold/First Place winners cannot try again unless the piece has changed hands.
5.) Sequence mates of previous winners will be allowed if there is a substantial difference between the two. If a cel has won in previous contests it's matching Douga cannot be entered into the sketch contest. Please inform the contest coordinator which piece you are submitting a sequence mate of. You may not submit a sequence mate if you also own the previous winning piece.
6.) Sequence mates in the same category are not permitted. Whoever submits the artwork first will be given a spot in that category. If you submit a sequence mate to an item that is already in a category, you will have the chance to re-submit another item in lieu of the repeated piece.
7.) If a category has only four entries, only #1 and #2 awards will be given. If a category has only three entries, only a #1 award will be given. Categories with fewer than three entries 24 hours before the beginning of voting will be eliminated. Contestants will have the chance to re-submit artwork to another category.
8.) Modification and/or enhancement of images is not permitted. The only exception is for oversized images requiring multiple scans. You may piece these scans together to make a complete image. Because sketches are generally harder to scan, i.e. pencil does not scan too well at times, basic modifications are allowed, brightness, contrast, and others depending on your image editing software, you may not however mash together any partials to make one image all sketches must be originally on the same piece of paper. This rule, however, DOES NOT apply to the category Mash-ups!. Final decisions are up to the contest runner...
9.) When there are tie votes, awards will be given in the following ways:
two #1, no #2, one #3
one #1, two #2, no #3
one #1, one #2, two #3
two #1, two #3.
one #1, three #2
SCHEDULE:
December 13-31: Preliminary stuff, finalizing of categories/roles, final changes to rules, timeline and list of tasks approved.
January 1-18: Submit Entries
January 18-19: Viewing Period
January 19-31: Voting Period
Winners announced: February 15th
Best in Show Voting: February 15th – 28th
Winner Announced: March 1st
Also finalized roles for staff on the 2014/2015 Sketch Awards!
1. Organizer - In Charge of Survey Monkey Surveys/Monitoring - Jadeduo
2. RS Site Creator to announce/post awards. Sensei is good to go! - If you need any assistance feel free to PM Milestogo ^_^ She said she would make herself available!
3. Awards Creator, responsible for creating awards and uploading them to RS - Milestogo
4. Site Testing/Error Checker for both SurveyMonkey, Rubberslug, and will double check the math on all tie breaks, per the tie break rules set down by Beta. - Majinuub
5. Contest Post Monitor/Institutional Memory Person. Jadeduo/Majinuub
Entries are going to run the exact same way I ran the cel contest, send entries to: Jadeduo @ gmail.com - with each entry labeled with:
1. Your Beta User ID
2. What Category you are submitting to.
3. Character Name
4. Anime
Keep in mind the most recent Anime TV Show I have watched is Puella Madoka Magica, so I can basically figure out SM/DBZ and some other old school animes however I am not familiar at all with the newer shows. So make this easy on me please label everything as asked! Everyone that has ever run these things knows they are a time suck so the faster I can get done with admin tasks the smoother this will go, also, because I have been behind I will extend the deadline for submissions for a couple of days but I will have to adjust the schedule a smidge...
Thanks all! And Best of Luck to Everyone!
Jadeduo
