Art Competition ALERT!!

[Drawen]

Attention all budding artists out there!!

Ever wanted to make your mark on the public world? How about seeing your art on someone's shirt, backpack, satchel, hat or scarf? How about a whole LOT of people donning your art because they love it??

That's right minna-san, I'm talking about BADGES; they're cute, convenient and compact, and are they LOUD?? What a way to show the anime community what you're made of when you can show it off like this!!!

SUANIME is holding yet another competition for the budding artists of the community, and this time it's badges!! Your designs could be featured as the next set of awesome badges that will be sold at conventions like Animania, SMASH and Supanova!!!

HOW TO ENTER

To enter, all you need to do is produce 5* designs which you think may be sold as badges. The designs should meet the criteria listed below. *There is no set minimum number of badges accepted, but please keep your designs for the competition to approximately 10 at most.

CRITERIA

   * Dimensions: Badges are designed in circular perimeters. To make a 35mm badge, create the outer circle with a 46mm diameter. This
circle must be visible for printing. The inner circle is created with a 31mm diameter where your design should fit within. The inner circle
must be deleted
   * Theme: There is no set category/theme – use your imagination!!!
   * Designs must be in colour with 300dpi resolution!
   * Designs may NOT contain images or language that SUAnime deems as inappropriate or offensive (i.e. NO explicit hentai, yaoi, yuri, gore etc- you get the picture )


TIPS

The designs are ultimately SMALL. This means, simplicity may be the key to winning this competition. Designs with too much detail or too abstract may not be effective as badges.

The best way to hand in your designs is to have them printed to scale or email your designs to us (see details below)


JUDGING

SUAnime Execs will make the decision based on originality, creativity and functionality as a badge.  We will announce the winners by email and newsletters, along with the prizes


COMPETITION CLOSING DATE

5pm Friday 8th August 2008 (end of Week 2 Semester 2)

Please hand your printed/emailed designs with your:
-full name
-SUAnime Membership number
-title of work (optional)
-email and mobile contact number
to the SUAnime Execs (preferably Art Directors Lawrence or Maho)


Any queries or entries may be directed to Lawrence (art@suanime.org) or Maho (asst_art@suanime.org)

GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!!

~Brought to you by Maho..~

[DillusionalTorment]

I gather that even captions or words can do as well...?

[jennkei]

If they're catchy, probably. And NOT in Times New Roman or some icky font unless it's done on purpose..

[Roa]

Comic Sans is a pretty icky font.

[jennkei]

It's overused, so yeah...pretty much.

[Drawen]

Hey I liked Comic sans  Guess it's a sign of not to use it anymore and yeh, better steer clear of Death Note Font, I think it's over-used by now

[KazamiN]

   * Dimensions: Badges are designed in circular perimeters. To make a 35mm badge, create the outer circle with a 46mm diameter. This circle must be visible for printing. The inner circle is created with a 31mm diameter where your design should fit within. The inner circle must be deleted

This is what the actual size looks like, so your design should fit inside the inner circle.

If you're going to mainly design on paper and then scan before submitting, it's probably better not to draw in the inner circle as it might interfere when you want to remove it, unless you're going to outline in ink first.
Please make the design span across the entire 46 mm if you can. That being the background (if any). The reason is that the paper is folded backwards, so by doing this we can remove any white marks from misfolding.
Also, please make your design 'focus' in the 31mm circle. Although it is a 35mm badge, you'll need some leeway for when the badge curves at the edges.
Best of luck to all entrants!

[Itachigo]

OH HAY I HAVE A QUESTION.
Are fanarts okay?

[Rei-chan]

I've got a question too!

Are anime spoofs are okay?

[Roa]

That's actually a good question.  The idea is that you can do that but just make sure it's not similar to what Madman's selling or they can get you for it.

[Itachigo]

Eh...? What is madman selling?
EDIT= Do you mean any series that they have licensed? I wanna do Zetsubou Sensei and Gurren Lagann, and they're not licensed (by madman, anyway) so...

[Roa]

Things that are similar to what Madman is selling.  For example, you start selling your own Haruhi Armbands which is a product that Madman has.  Madman can pull you up on that.

[Itachigo]

Ah yeah....but are Madman selling badges..?

[KazamiN]

I don't think so...but to be on the safe side, try and make them sorta like references rather than fanart.

[Drawen]

Well competition closed last Friday, so our Art D's are having a looksee to determine the winners...

Thank you to all who submitted entries, and goodluck