It's about time for the annual sketch contest for 2016!!
Last year we had a pretty nice turnout, so let's make this year even better! The contest will be run just like the last couple of cel and sketch contests, where entries are posted on a Rubberslug site and voting is done through Survey Monkey.
This year I will be running and monitoring the post here on AB, creating the RS site, and uploading entries there. As well as doing all the cheerleading lol.
Jadeduo will be accepting the entries and monitoring them to make sure they aren't too similiar to winners of previous years, as well as being in charge of Survey Monkey. She's the police force this year!!
Rook8z8 will be creating the awards!!
Halzacar is our site tester and will be checking the math in case there are any ties!!
(S) = Sketch
(H) = Hanken
(MS) = Model Sketch
(P) = Painting (must be on paper)
(Sh) = Shikishi (Black & white with one accent color)
Accessory - Emphasis on what the character is holding, using, swinging, playing, aiming. (S, Sh)
Action - Scenes of action, movement, motion. (S, Sh)
Bishonen - Young men whose beauty (and sex appeal) transcends the boundary of gender. (S, Sh)
Bliss - Dreamy, joyful, heavenly, euphoric. (S, Sh)
Blood on the Ground - Characters that are badly injured, on the verge of death, or dead. (S, Sh)
Chibi/Superdeformed - Characters drawn in a semi-deformed, comical style. (S, Sh)
Femininity - Delicacy, gentleness, maidenly. (S, Sh)
Fight!-Good guy vs bad guy, lover's quarrel...Must show two or more characters engaged in battle. (S, Sh)
Funny - Laugh out loud moments. (S, Sh)
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, Sh)
Group - Art of two or more characters. (S, Sh)
Grouchy - Show us your best grumpy, resting bitch face! (S, Sh)
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, Sh)
Itadakimasu!- Our favorite characters stuffing their faces with deliciousness. (S, Sh)
Love - Kissing, hugging, cuddling, any displays of affection, innocent or physical – just not explicit. (S, Sh)
Mech and Tech - Robots, vehicles, ships, cars, gundams, Oh MY! (S, Sh)
Muscles - Beef, brawn flesh, sinew, tendon. (S, Sh)
Outfit - Best dressed, emphasis on clothes and costumes. (S, Sh)
OP/ED/Eyecatch – Sketches used only in these special animated sequences. These sketches are NOT allowed in any other category. (S)
Rage - Mad, angry, extreme agitation. (S, Sh)
Shocked - Stunned, horrified, utter dismay. (S, Sh)
Sorrow - Tear-jerkers, sadness. (S, Sh)
Tomboys - For all those lovely ladies that are redefining what it means to be a woman! (S, Sh)
Tranquility - Characters who have found their inner peace. (S, Sh)
Villainy - Archenemies, evil scientists, meanies, wicked bad guys. (S, Sh)
OPTIONAL: Animated - Short sequence of animated artwork. (S)
OPTIONAL: Eyes on Me - Anime Eyes, love them hate them, they must be the focus of the sketch. (S, Sh)
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 - Fan Art - Made by you or another artist. (S, P)
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, Sh)
OPTIONAL: Settei - Characters, items or scenery. Settei are not allowed in any other category. (MS)
OPTIONAL - Sexy - Male, Female... Whatever! Whatever gets your motors revving! This I know is a highly subjective category we shall test it out and see how it goes! (S, Sh)
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 every single category. No limits this time around!
2.) While a participant may choose to enter every category, you are not required to submit that many. You may enter fewer items.
3.) In order to cut down on bandwidth usage, please limit your entries to less than 1 MB in size a good rule of thumb is if it doesn't upload to RS it will not upload for the contest!
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.
5.) Sequence mates of previous winners will be allowed if there is a substantial difference between the two. 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.
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.
SCHEDULE:
April 1-15: Preliminary stuff, finalizing of categories/roles, final changes to rules, timeline and list of tasks approved.
April 16-May 2: Submit Entries
May3-4: Viewing Period
May 5-25: Voting Period
Winners announced: May 31
How entries are submitted:
E-mail them to ABCelAwards2015 at gmail.com
With each entry, include the following information:
1. Your Beta User ID
2. Category
3. Character Name
4. Anime
Also-if you are going to submit to the animated category, please send one of the frames from the sequence as a jpg as well, just to make it easier to get an image for the thumbnail for the RS gallery.
Please keep in mind that we may not be familiar with the anime which you are submitting from, so make sure to include all of the required information, with each submission!
