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Dates & Deadlines
Saturday October 29th - Sunday November 6th: Submission of cels for all categories (Do not submit any entries until after Nov 6th, 12pm your time) Saturday November 19th - Sunday November 27th: Voting page opened and voting takes place Thursday December 1st:
Winners Announced
Categories 1. Best Babe Award - The kind of anime girl that turns heads and makes the blokes go "corr blimey, she's a bit of alright" 2. Best Hunk Award - Those bishonen dreamboats that make fan-girls go dizzy with delight. 3. Best Mecha/Robot - From Gargantuan battle robots to minute helper droids, this is the place for those technological creations. 4. Animal/Creature Award - Cute critters, friendly familiars, blundering beasts and malicious monsters- you get the picture. 5. Background Award - This is for stand-alone Production BGs only (No copies or repros), we want to see the most detailed, realistic and emotive watercolour backgrounds. 6. FX Cel Award - For cels with great effects layers- Ki Effects, Lighting Effects, Airbrushing and Tinting …it's all good. 7. Best Hanken/Rilezu - Ultra special post-production artwork, including hanken sketches are welcomed here. 8. Evil Award - If your villainous character shows signs of concentrated hatred and destructive behaviour they belong here. Maybe our hero is showing a dark side too? When voting, consider the qualities of the cel itself instead of the character's traits in that series. 9. Angelic Award - You can see the halo shine from a mile off, for characters who display selfless acts of generosity, charity and friendship. When voting, consider the qualities of the cel itself instead of the character's traits in that series. 10. Funniest Cel Award - Cels that make us bust a gut laughing! 11. Joy Award - Partying, celebrations, achievement, relief, all sorts of people having a great time. 12. Rage Award - Cels of characters who are really pissed off and ready to rumble. 13. Sorrow Award - Cels of characters who are defeated, depressed, or just plain sad and in pain. 14. Cutest Cel Award - Characters or scenes so sweet they make your teeth hurt! 15. Action Award - Dramatic action shots involving battles, explosions, fighting, acrobatics and intense movement that make us tired just by looking at it! *phew* 16. Hentai Award - This category is open to ANY cel from a Hentai series. Cels submitted in this category DO NOT have to be graphic in nature but it's encouraged. 17. Yaoi/Yuri Award - This category is open to ANY cel from a 'homosexual' series. Cels submitted in this category DO NOT have to be graphic in nature but it's encouraged. 18. Best Couple Award - Those cute (and even those downright unpleasant) couples and comrades. These pairings can be male/female, male/male, female/female, demon/schoolgirl, cabbit/cabbit. 19. Best Weaponry - Martial Arts masters say that a weapon is an extension of a person's body. Perhaps these accessories make the character look cool, powerful or you can imagine what the character is like by the weapon they use? For cels that include Guns, Swords, Staffs, even lasers, canons and tanks etc. Vote on the tool's visual quality, its implementation and what it represents in the frame. 20. Worst Cel Award - Those freebie cels that you cannot believe you own. A cel of a head, an arm, a butt- whatever. We are not grading on cel condition, but rather the sheer lack of quality/desirability of the image itself. 21. Best Genga - Award for the awe-inspiring pre-production sketches that often demonstrate an array of emotion, form, detail and precision. 22. Non-Anime Art Award
- A more 'open' section, you can define Non-Anime as 'not Japanese animation'
(US/European animation) or as 'not Japanese anime production art'.
General Rules
& Regulations 1. Contest is open to Anime-Beta members only. Guests, referrals and lurkers should be registered as a Beta Member, BEFORE the artwork submission start date of this event in order to participate. 2. Unless otherwise noted in the category descriptions, all entries submitted to this contest must be Production cels or sketches. The emphasis of this event is on cels but dougas may be submitted into any applicable category. Exclusions include the F/X Award, Best Background and Hanken/Rilezu categories. A Hanken sketch may be entered into the Hanken/Rilezu section but no Rilezu sketches may be submitted. 3. Artwork that has been submitted in previous Beta Awards contests may not be submitted in ANY category this year. 4. Each submission must be owned by the member submitting it. Cel images taken from other galleries, websites or collections are prohibited. Cels owned by a member but not on display in their gallery, are acceptable. 5. Cels should be submitted "AS IS," with no graphically enhanced additions/ subtractions or computer editing to improve/alter the image itself. Custom and copy backgrounds to accompany each submission are acceptable. The cropping of images to avoid showing paint edges is also acceptable. 6. A maximum of 20 entries
will be accepted per category, with a minimum of 3. If more than 20 cels
are submitted, only the first twenty cels received will be voted on. If
fewer than 3 cels are submitted to a category, that category will not
be eligible for voting. If a category is over-subscribed early on in the
submission process, the affected person/people will be notified so they
can submit a new cel to a different category. 7. The organisers reserve the right to disqualify images they believe do not fit into the category in which they were submitted. 8. The popularity of a series or the lack of knowledge of an obscure series should not play into voting. Each member must vote for the cel that they believe best meets the criteria laid out for it. 9. The monetary value of a cel or its scarcity should not influence the final judging. 10. Everyone who submits artwork into this contest MUST vote too. 11. Beta members who don't wish to submit any artwork into the event may still vote if they choose. Full voting terms can be seen below. 12. Once voting is complete, the artwork from each category that received the most votes will be declared the winner. A runner-up rosette will be awarded for second place. Winners will be awarded with logos to proudly display in their cel galleries.
2. Cel images taken from other galleries or websites is not allowed. Cels owned by a member, but not shown in their gallery, are acceptable. 3. All entries must be made via email attachment. Do not submit links to cels or galleries, for they will not be accepted. 4. All images must be in JPEG or GIF file format, between 300-500 pixels in width and depth, no more- even if it's a pan or oversized piece. 5. Maximum file size of each image must be 100kb or less. 6. Rename each image as your Beta username followed by an underscore then the relevant category it's being entered into. For example: myname_joy.jpg, myname_hanken.jpg, myname_hunk.gif, myname_background.gif If your name includes eccentric characters that you can't use when re-naming the file, just use the simplest text form or the name you're known as on Anime Beta ;)
Emails should be set out in the example below: Email Subject: Submission [followed by your full Beta member name, without brackets] Include the respective images in attachment. No message in the body of the email is necessary, not even a bribe to sweeten the voting- that's dealt with by another department :P The email address you use to submit your entry and vote will be the one we shall use to contact you if need be. If you'd prefer replies to be made to a different address, please mention that in the body of the email. Please send only 1 email with your category submissions, not 1 email for each image. If you're unable to send your submission during the designated 8 day period (Oct 29th - Nov 6th) because you're on holiday or have special circumstances, please advise me before hand (via the email address below) and I can accept an early submission. Send submissions to betaawards@artfriend.com
The webpage with all the entries will be made available for public viewing on Saturday November 19th, the first day of the voting. Please make sure you view each piece of artwork before choosing a favourite. Once you have a favourite in mind from each category, you're ready to cast your votes! Each artwork in every category
will be assigned a number (1, 2, 3, etc). Use this number to indicate
the item you are voting for. All voters MUST vote in EVERY category- the Hentai and Yaoi/Yuri categories are the only exceptions, both are voluntary. On the Voting form, there is a button by the sexual categories saying "I'm not Voting for this Award". Please select that if you do not wish to vote on those sections. Check your votes before sending them, make sure you've selected the correct artwork for the corresponding category- you are allowed 1 vote and that is all. Failure to meet these requirements will result in your vote not being counted.
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