Annual Cel Contest 2015!! - WINNERS ANNOUNCED!!!

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Re: Annual Cel Contest 2015!! - CHECK YOUR ENTRIES!!

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Just a few observations:

1.) a lot of the cels are so differently sized compared to each other. I feel like some of the ones that show up really small may be at a disadvantage. I'm not sure why some cels are really big and some are really small. I realize sometimes you'll have a bigger cel because it's a pan or something, but some are weirdly sized for no apparent reason. Is this just how they uploaded to the site? Would it be possible to, perhaps, resize them all so they had the same longest side? That is make them all, say, 700 pixels wide.

2.) I wish I'd realized that a "novel set up" meant putting any background behind any cel. Most of my cels would have qualified in this category in that event. I honestly thought this was more intended to be, say, putting Sailormoon on Planet Namek, or mixing a cel of Cardcaptor Sakura with one of Sailormoon so they look like they're interacting, etc. Some of them definitely work for me, but some of them feel pretty low-effort.

3.) How exactly should we judge when we're looking? I realize you can't police this, but should be most importantly pay attention to category? Like, instinctively I see characters I know, or really beautiful/well done cels and I'm drawn to those cels more. But I'm definitely seeing places where a beautiful cel is not quite meeting the theme (to me), and I'd be more likely to vote for something else that fits it better, even if it's not as beautiful or recognizable... Some of the "Eyes On Me" category, for example, feel more like "Faces" or even "Busts" than Eyes... Or am I being too critical in a situation like this?

Great job by the way! Everything looks really good, and I can tell a ton of work went into it. :D
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Re: Annual Cel Contest 2015!! - CHECK YOUR ENTRIES!!

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Thanks Krafty ^_^

Thanks Drac I'm glad you like the set up!

Yes Tori, we decided that FULL Color Shikishi art is allowed in all the same Categories that Cels are, as long as they were created by someone in the industry, director, animator, mangaka etc. We are trying to bring back our peeps that have moved onto Shikishi collecting and the art form has been highly underrepresented in our community and we wanted to change that! This was discussed at the end of September, see earlier in the thread.

That is a lot of observations Van! @_@

The problem with the image resizing is that the site does it automatically I ran into this problem last year with I think theultimatebrucelee's entries he had a bunch of pan cels that were coming up REALLY small. So we tried resizing the images they got a little bigger but not enough to make a difference. If the sizing bothers you, if you vote on a smart phone it will resize the images to a more uniform length I don't know how to affect the images on desktop, and sometimes resizing in paint will warp the image and I don't want to do that to contestants. The point I think is if you have an issue with your entries let me know and I will try and work with you to get them to the size you want but sometimes there is nothing I can do about it.

A Novel Set Up can be that, I believe one entry has a funny setup with a hot Manga guy in the BG. However based on entries from last year the one that won, was sticking a non-matching BG to the cel that makes the cel look better than the original BG would.

I am not going to judge how you vote, if you vote how the pieces fit their categories that's fine, if you vote for only shows you are familiar with that is fine, if you vote for yourself that is also fine. Everything is subjective for this, so I wasn't going to rule people out of entering their cel unless it was blatantly wrong, with the Eyes category, as long as the eyes are the focus of the cel it was greenlighted and those that were toeing the line I let slide, as ultimately it is up to the voters to decide which cels will win. And really it comes down to how who turns out to vote this year, I have found in the last few years, that sometimes it's weird what ends up winning, and I might not personally agree with it, but what wins is at least usually lovely.

Thanks yes organizing almost 30 entrants some of which sent me entries piecemeal over the 31 day entry period was interesting to say the least ^_~

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Re: Annual Cel Contest 2015!! - CHECK YOUR ENTRIES!!

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Regarding the odd sizing, there will be a gallery with all the entries going live when voting opens up, so you could always toggle between the gallery and the voting sites.
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I voted to early, sorry all =( :hurt:
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LOL, Darn now I have to get the RS done this week :P Wanted to work on new gallery! *whines*

No worries LWK! Doesn't look like we are going to be making any other changes unless someone is unhappy with the way their entries look :)

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Re: Annual Cel Contest 2015!! - CHECK YOUR ENTRIES!!

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@ JD nice work!

How about to rename the "AB Cel Award" to "AB colored Artwork Award"?
May this way it can be easier to understand what could be added. ;)
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Re: Annual Cel Contest 2015!! - NOW ACCEPTING ENTRIES!!

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Jadeduo wrote:OKAY!

The surveys are ready for viewing. I know I can't stop anyone from voting but please refrain! This time is for the entrants to double check their entries and make sure everything is okay! So all entrants please check the categories for your pieces and if something is wrong or missing let me know ASAP! Especially peeps who sent me entries in multiple e-mails, I'm hoping none got lost in my inbox, but it could happen so PLEASE check!

Anywho here we go there were 27 entrants this year! So kudos to everyone who took the time to get entries down! And everyone else that did not have time, I'm sure we would appreciate it if you would vote when voting starts!! ^_^

Again Entrants please check CAREFULLY that everything is OKAY with your entries I will work with you to do my best with them if you have an issue or if I missed one accidentally.

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I think it'd be cool to have a section in the future called 'rarity', where the cels chosen from it are character or scenes that appear only once or very few times.
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Maybe when voting starts I will edit the first post, but I don't want to lose the rules so I will have to possibly edit one of the early posts on the front page maybe. I was just planning on posting to this post to announce voting started so those following the post would know when to go vote.

And peeps let's wait till we are done with this contest before we start talking about new categories for next year. ^_^;; I am exhausted just thinking about it already...

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I think once voting opens up you should just create a whole new thread called something like "Anime Cel Contest 2015 - VOTE NOW" with ONLY the links to the voting places and a link to this thread to keep it clean and uncomplicated. Then we can preserve this thread as-is for future use as well.
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There were 27 entrants this year! So kudos to everyone who took the time to get entries down! And everyone else that did not have time, I'm sure we would appreciate it if you would vote!!!!

ENTRANTS! Please make sure you vote in EVERY Regular CATEGORY!! No need to vote in any of OPTIONAL CATEGORIES unless you've submitted a piece to those categories! Also no one is forced of course to vote in Hentai, Sexy, or Posterior if you think it will be offensive to you! ^_^

I have a box at the end of every survey where you can put your AB User ID, if you do not put it there, your vote will NOT be counted! ^_^ So make sure you do so!

Another thing, I will be tracking the voting so if you have any questions if you accidentally double voted or are worried you missed a category PM or e-mail me I will check for you! You guys have three weeks to vote! Have fun with it! I was too busy to get the RS site up this weekend but I will try and work it up this week. If you can't wait to vote and the image sizing bothers you, try voting from a smartphone or tablet Survey Monkey automatically normalizes the voting pages for mobile devices!

Thanks everyone in advance for participating! ^_^ -JD

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Re: Annual Cel Contest 2015!! - Voting HAS STARTED!!

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17 People have voted so far! @_@ What a great early turnout!!!

I have sent e-mails to any entrants that missed a category in the standard voting categories as all entrants are required to vote in those categories! Please go in and do so!

And just a reminder if you are a Beta member and didn't have time to send entries you can still participate by voting!

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Voted :) .
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28 People have voted so far! @_@ What a great early turnout!!!

And just a reminder if you are a Beta member and didn't have time to send entries you can still participate by voting!

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Got my votes in yesterday, though there was one or two categories I wish I could have "Abstained" from voting in... XD

How many total voters did you have last year?
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