NOW CLOSED
Thanks to all who entered!
Happy 5th!!!!!!!!!! 5 years is such an amazing achievement, let's work hard and make this round of events a great one! Please read all of the rules and guidelines before entering.
*****There has been a change since the announcement. The contests will not run for only 3 weeks but instead a full FOUR. That gives entrants a little more time to finish up and submit any entries.
General Contest Rules
- Members, public guests (i.e. non-members) and staff are allowed to enter any/all of the contests from July 1st, 2011 until July 29th, 2011, which is when the contests close. Submit all entries during this time in a private message (pm) to [.Torina.] or Akeyami ONLY. Please do not post them here; we will be making a separate thread for entries.
- Contestants may enter up to THREE SUBMISSIONS in as many of the contest categories as they choose (i.e. you can enter all of the categories but with a maximum of THREE entries per contest per contestant. Make sure it's your best work if you have to narrow it down!)
- ****NEW: You may not submit any entries that were submitted to any official TLoZH contest in the past. So for example, if you submitted a fanfiction to last year's 4th Anniversary event, it is not eligible this year.
- If a crew member decides to enter a contest then they forfeit their right to judge entries in that particular contest category. So if a moderator enters all of the contest categories, s/he may not judge at all. As the host, the Captain is not eligible to enter and win any prizes (although I may participate for fun! lol)
- ALL CONTEST ENTRIES MUST BE THE ORIGINAL WORK/IDEA OF THE CONTESTANT. QUESTIONABLE ENTRIES WILL BE INVESTIGATED.
- HAVE FUN AND BE CREATIVE - the judging process will not only be based on skill level but also on originality and creativity.
1) Legend of Zelda Fan Art Contest Rules and Details
For those who enjoy drawing, painting, sculpting, photography, digital art, music composition, film, theater, and other related aspects of the arts, this is the contest for you!
- All art submissions must be the original work of the contestant. You may submit artwork that you have shared in the guild in the past.
- Any rating and/or genre is fine. However, do NOT try to post any mature (R-rated and up) images on Gaia; this is a strict site policy. Instead, if your work does contain mature themes, upload it to a site that does allow such and send a link to [.Torina.]/Akeyami as your entry, with a warning about its content.
- Photography submissions must be ORIGINAL AND CREATIVE (i.e. taking screenshots of the game or snapshots of action figures doesn't count). The challenge of creative LoZ-inspired photography is that you have to use elements around you to make your own original Zelda world and capture it on camera. We will accept photos of original cosplay costumes (but only if YOU made them, not just bought them).
- For sculptures or other 3D art, a photo of the submission is fine for an entry. HOWEVER, it must have a time-stamped signature somewhere in the photo proving it's your work.
- For drawings and other forms of illustration, NO TRACINGS will be accepted.
2) Legend of Zelda Fan Fiction/Writing Contest Rules and Details
If you enjoy writing of any kind, this is the contest for you! Short stories, poetry/song lyrics, and other written LoZ-inspired works are eligible in this category.
- All entries must be the original work of the contestant. You may submit works that you have written and/or shared in the past. If a particular entry is quite long, and won't fit in a pm, please send us a link to your entry instead (like from fanfiction.net or LiveJournal).
- Any rating and/or genre is okay, however we do ask that if it contains mature themes (R-rated and up), please host it on a site that allows such and give sufficient warning before entering. For the entry, send [.Torina.]/Akeyami a link to the story.
- If you plan to submit a short story, please do not exceed 20 pages in length. If you wish to submit more than one short story (or parts of a "working novel") please limit each entry to 8 pages. Special exceptions may be made for past works that you wish to enter. Contact [.Torina.]/Akeyami if you wish to be considered a special case.
3) Legend of Zelda Avatar Cosplay Contest
Love to dress up your avatar as a mini cosplayer? Spend hours on tektek making beautiful cosplays you could never afford? Then this is the contest for you!
- Cosplay entries may be submitted either in the form of your own avatar OR in the form of a tektek/avatar simulator. If you decide to use tektek or a similar avatar simulator to create your cosplay you cannot submit more than three entries, and THEY MUST BE YOUR ORIGINAL WORK. NO COPYING OF OTHER AVATARS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
- Please be sure to specify who you are cosplaying!!! It is sometimes not entirely obvious!! (i.e. Soldier A? Who?)
- You do not have to be completely accurate with your entries; originality and a creative spin on characters is often well done and makes an interesting and appealing avatar. Show us your tektek/cosplay skills!
4) AMV Contest!!!!!!!! (Or....GMV for Game Music Video? LOL)
This is a new contest category for the year. If you have LoZ clips, pictures, music, etc and would like to make or submit an AMV, please feel free!!!! You can use any genre of music and any images or video related to Zelda, but MAKE SURE that if you use fanart you have the original owner's permission to use it, with credits to the artist in your video.
The only other guideline is that to please keep AMVs to a maximum of ten minutes long (if you really want to excede that pm me or [.Torina.] with a request). You don't have to make a new AMV for this, you can submit any that you've made in the past!!!! Show us your AMV/GMV skills!!!!
PRIZES
To be announced.
Note: we are still accepting donations for contest prizes. If you donate to Zashiye we can make the prizes even bigger and better!
Work hard and good luck to all contestants!!!!
