Hello everyone,I’m a staff of commettee of China (Beijing) International Student Animation Festival.Now we are recruiting works,if you are interested in animation and already have a work,please contact us.
you can mail us your work first,and we will help you finish the register.If you have any questions,contact me:
China (Beijing) International Student Animation Festival is approved by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China (SARFT, PRC), co-organized by Communication University of China (CUC) and China Beijing TV Station, and undertaken by Animation School of CUC, Beijing KAKU Cartoon Satellite TV and Education Committee of China Animation Association.
The aim of this event is to inspire young animators and filmmakers among college students, encourage innovation, creativity and passion from youngsters and set up a platform for the exchange between China and International animation community…
1.Schedule
Entry Deadline：Oct. 7 , 2008
Festival: Oct. 22 ~ Oct. 25, 2008
- Entry Categories
[Aniwow!2008] Awards have 4 categories. Participants should indicate which category to apply for.
A. Animation:
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White Poplar Award
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ASIFA China Award
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Best Directing
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Best Screenplay
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Best Art Design
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Best Original Music
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Best Character Animation
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Best Web Animation
B. VFX:
This section requires the submitted films using digital composition technology to realize visual special effect in short feature films, motion graphics designs, etc.
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ACM SIGGRAPH Education Award
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Best Digital Short Film
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Best Motion Graphics Design
C. Interactive Design
This section contains interactive advertising, E-journal, interface design for website and mobile phone, PC game, mobile phone game, etc.
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Best Web Interactive Work
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Best Game Design
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Best Mobile Interactive Work
D. Comic Art & Illustration:
This section contains single illustration and a complete story represented by comic art
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Best Comic Art
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Best Single Illustration
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Awards
Certificates and trophies for award winners. 10,000 RMB for White Poplar Award, 6,000 RMB for other awards in Animation, VFX and Interactive WorkDesign, and 3,000 RMB for awards in Comic Art & Illustration, except ASIFA China Award and ACM SIGGRAPH Education Award
Candidate lists will be released on official website after first round judgment. Final lists will be announced at Awarding Ceremony on Oct. 25. All nominators will be invited to the ceremony held in Beijing.
- Requirements
No registration fee.
Submitted college students’ works must be finished during Jan. 1st 2007 to Sept. 28th 2008, without any restriction on disciplines. （graduation work is applicable）.
Each work should be finished by the author with full copyright. The author/artist will be responsible for all legal issues. Co-produced works could be submitted with the permission of all the other team members.
Works submitted to the past two years’ China (Beijing) International Student Animation Festival cannot be accepted.
All content of the works must be not against the law in China. And it is strongly prohibited that your works copy or imitate others. If you use other people’s work, please indicate the copyright, otherwise the festival has the right to cancel your qualification of participating in the competition. Besides, if there is any negative influence on the competition, the festival will declare the legal responsibility of the related.
Productions can be registered either by individual or by team. But one participant only can send 5 productions maximum. Please indicate whether your productions have already been published before.
- Guidelines
Only registration online will be accepted. A registration number will be generated automatically by the online system after a successful application, for one work. And a piece of confirmation letter will be sent to the email address given during registration.
FTP submission is accepted when the file size is less than 50MB. The FTP Address: ftp://ftp.aniwow.org Username and password are generated automatically by our system and will be sent by email after registration. When uploading, please keep saving in the default folder.
Works can be burned into DVD and then posted to the organizing committee, if the file size is larger for uploading online.
Animation and VFX works are recommended in formats of MOV, AVI or SWF (only for Web Animation) Resolution should be no less than 720×576. High quality compressed Low compressed or uncompressed works are preferred.
PC game works should include executable or installation file, oOne 1 still image of the game in format of JPG and instruction document; mobile phone game works should include game program, 1 oOne still image of the game in format of JPG and instruction document.
Formats of comic works should be TIFF or PSD only, and size should be no less than A4, resolution should be no less than 300dpi.
- Contact information
Official website: www.aniwow.org
[Aniwow!2008]
Animation School, Communication University of China
No.1 Ding Fuzhuang East Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing
100024, P. R. China
Tel：+86 10 6578 3458 Fax: +86 10 6578 3457
+86 10 6578 3475 ext.116
Email：[email protected]
- Copyrights explanations
The Animator should provide the factual information and identification. Although the festival cannot check the information authenticity strictly, the festival will block any participants with false information during the festival.
The work refers to the Animation or Comic work that is made by the animator following the stated way, no matter whether it will get a prize; the animator will have the copyright according to the Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China.
Publicity refers to publish the work in public according to the stated range. All the published work cannot be backspaced or deleted unless there is special situation.
The festival will reject the work below:
Against the law of China.
Instigate the ethnic hatred, ethnic discrimination, destroy the ethnic unify.
Insult or slander others, trespass others’ legal rights.
Other content which the law has banned
For the sake of respecting the copyright, and protect the legal right of
the animator, all participants should agree the declaration below:
I declare that I am the author or co-author of the work and have the full copyright of it. I will undertake all the legal responsibilities for possible disputes arising from the copyright issue issue onon images, story and music of the work.
I consent to the use of my animation submitted works and supporting stills for the publicity and promotion purposes of the festival. on TV, publications, Internet, etc.
I have provided the factual information and will undertake the responsibility for it.
All the works would not be sent back in principle, and the participants should keep the original edition.
About plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined as knowingly presenting the work or property of another person as if it were one’s own.
The festival doesn’t have sufficient ability to investigate plagiarism. However, if there is any plagiarized work being founded, the festival has the obligation to cancel the qualification of the participant. The festival will not undertake any responsibility for plagiarism at other places, and all the legal responsibilities will be undertaken by plagiarist himself.
The festival has the obligation to provide the background information of any person who might have done plagiarism when the judiciary or the copyright owner require.
Works of participant will be accepted as far as he agrees to the conditions above. The festival will not undertake the responsibility of breaching of faith or other legal responsibilities, including not undertaking the responsibility of compensating to the participant who has been canceled the qualification by the festival because of not accepting the charge of infringement.
The festival has the explanation right for all the information above. Anything that goes against the Law of the People’s Republic of China will follow the law.
Organizing Committee for 3rd China (Beijing) International Student Animation Festival
July, 2008