Iapologize that this took so long to get out, but I never had the opportunity to finish writing this post. So here it is, Falcom’s Zero and Ao no Kiseki Illustration Contest information.
Entry Dates: 12/6/2011 ~ 1/31/2012
Publish Date: 2/14/2012
Exhibition Period: Planned for through May 2012.
Accepted Titles: Zero no Kiseki and Ao no Kiseki
* Artwork for any anime, manga, or original characters not permitted. (Part of this was appended on twitter.)
Form and File Sizes:
Illustration Contest
* Accepted files must be in jpg format.
* The dimensions of the images must be 480 (width) x 640 (height) pixels.
* Filesize cannot be more than 200kb.
4koma Contest
* Accepted files must be in jpg format.
* The dimensions of the images must be 250 (width) x 750 (height) pixels.
* Filesize cannot be more than 200kb.
* Please record the title of the work in the email.
* Storyboarding format is accepted!
* If a storboard format 4koma is a winner, the Falcom staff will complete it.
Scribble Contest
A new category with this contest! Doodles and ‘light touch sketches’ have their own category in this contest! Photographs of doodles on notebook or memo paper are ok!
* Accepted files must be in jpg format.
* The dimensions of the images must be 480 (width) x 640 (height) pixels.
* Filesize cannot be more than 200kb.
Email to Receive Entries for the Contest:
* Entry made by email.
* In the email title, use the name of the competition you’re entering: [ ?????? ] (Illustration Category), [ 4???? ] (4koma Category), or [ ?????? ] (Scribble Category).
* In the body of the email, include: 1) penname, 2) image size, 3) comments on the illustration, and include the image file as an attachment.
Announcement of Results and Awards
Results will be announced on 2/17/2012.
Prizes:
Grand Prize (1 entry selected per category)
– A game or music CD of your choice + a comic signed by Shinki Kitsutsuki + Falcom Goods
Excellence Award (2 entries selected per category)
– Comic signed by Shinki Kitsutsuki + Falcom Goods
Class Award (6 entries per category)
– Falcom Goods
Falcom Magazine Grand Prize
Participation Award
– All people who enter the contest will receive a PC wallpaper drawn just for the contest.
(A few days after the results are published, the winners will be contacted by email for their mailing addresses.)
guess it’s for Japan only huh?
It isn’t. I’ve participated before. Even won an award in the Festa some years ago.
Can people from outside Japan participate? I’m thinking of entering the scribble category.
Check the answer I gave to vyrhn. You don’t have to be in Japan to participate.
For the Scribble Contest category – can it be colored, or should it be in black and white?
Also, can the comments be in English, or should I just use Google translate and hope it’s readable?
I think the scribble category can be anything that’s not fully finished artwork. You can even take a picture of a doodle on a sheet of paper if you really wanted, it sounds like. I don’t see why you can’t have something colored that way, though…
If you want to do something very finished, then you’d enter the Illustration category.
Alright, thanks Floofy!
For the Illustration Contest:
Is the theme open? Or does it have to be related to the game (Zero no Kiseki/ Ao no kiseki) ?
And can one person participate each category?
This is Zero-Ao only, and I think you can enter multiple categories. At least, there wasn’t anything that prevented anyone from entering in multiple in the previous contests.