Theme and Mascots for Wai-Con 2008!

Bakaneko (BN) · **Posted:** Sun Aug 12, 2007 4:25 pm

Just because Wai-Con 2007 is just around the corner doesn't mean that we're not thinking about Wai-Con 2008! After much deliberation, deliveration and deluberation, we've come up with next year's theme -

Steampunk.

That's right, in the tradition of anime such as Trigun, Howl's Moving Castle, Steamboy, Full Metal Alchemist and Escaflowne (to but name a few), steampunk is the next theme for Wai-Con 2008.

To celebrate the theme's coronation, we're also announcing the start of the 2008 Mascot Competition! As with previous years, we're getting Australian artists to create and design our mascots each year. These mascots will be adorned on our programme book, signs, posters, things of obscene awesome. You're going to be eeeeeeverywhere!

What, you need more incentive? Fine. How about a Howl's Moving Castle set for the winner? To keep with the steampunk theme, the winner will receive a Howl's Moving Castle hardcover picture book as well as a Howl's Moving Castle DVD. Not to mention all of the notoriety that comes with being a winner.

Competition closes 27th October 2007.

This competition is open to all members of the public. Following are the official guidelines:

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The theme for the program cover for Wai-Con 2008 is "Steampunk".
You will be allowed to design a maximum of three characters and enter them all however please keep in mind that the size of the program cover is A5 which is half of an A4 page, however you will be allowed to enter up to 5 designs so you can use different characters in each design.
It is preferable that the designs to be in full colour however we will accept black and white line art designs however the designs must at least be inked.
Your image MUST include some sort of reference to either Wai-Con, Perth or Western Australia. For example, a badge with the Wai-Con eye or your character freefalling from the BankWest tower. This is to not only keep with the Western theme, but shows an individuality to the picture as well as proving that it is the artist's genuine artwork.
You are allowed a maximum of 5 entries per person.
The winning entry will become property of PANIC Inc. We reserve the right to make any changes we deem necessary for our purposes. However, this will not prevent the artist from displaying the artwork as their own in other areas. (eg. universities, Deviantart, etc.)
Submit your entries either on CD to P.O. Box 5611, Perth WA 6003; or via email to competitions@panic-wa.org.
Entries must be submitted via an unflattened PSD (Photoshop) file.
THE COMPETITION WILL CLOSE ON 27th OF OCTOBER 2007.  All entries must be received by this date to be valid for entry. No late entries will be admitted under any circumstances, so get in early!
The winner will be announced in November prior to the con and the prize will be mailed out. So please remember to include your name and address on your submission. Because without nowhere to send it to, I'm keeping your prize! Bwahahaha!

risachantag · **Posted:** Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:51 am

Hi, I was planning on entering, but I have a question about submission by email. You said 'unflattened Photoshop file', but I do my pictures at print quality with 10+ layers, so the filesize would be much too large to send unflattened. What is the maximum attachment size for Panic's email accounts?

Bakaneko (BN) · **Posted:** Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:11 pm

... you know, I'm not sure. In fact, I remember having this problem last year and failing to rectify it. Hrmph, go team me.

Tell you what - I'll change it to JPG submission, but if you do win an unflattened PSD must be available. I hope that works.

Nosaj · **Posted:** Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:51 pm

Stickyed

risachantag · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:50 am

Okay, that sounds fair enough. =) No problem then.

Wendesigns · **Posted:** Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:37 am

Can we zip our un-flattened photoshop file and mail it that way?

tigermoph · **Joined:** Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:23 pm **Posts:** 1

I'm a kiwi- can I still submit something, or will I be beaten senseless and thrown unceremoniously from the building?

Nosaj · **Posted:** Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:39 pm

tigermoph wrote:

I'm a kiwi- can I still submit something, or will I be beaten senseless and thrown unceremoniously from the building?

You may submit, but I cant guarantee that all the above wont happen anyway.

Also, whats a NZlander doin here? GET IM!

Wendesigns · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:48 am

I was wondering if a collaboration project could be entered, I have a twin sister and she drew the characters and I colored them in photoshop and I was wondering if I could enter that?

PLaYStAzN · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:28 am

sounds like fun...

Nosaj · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:07 am

Wendesigns wrote:

I was wondering if a collaboration project could be entered, I have a twin sister and she drew the characters and I colored them in photoshop and I was wondering if I could enter that?

As long as you dont mind sharing a prize then its fine.

Wendesigns · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:16 pm

no problem, thanks!

manga-fandom · **Posted:** Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:05 am

i think ill enter seeing as though ill be going to the con next year not this year...

*sketches away*

*lost*spirit* · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:13 am

hmmm Im might give it a whirl so the characters got to be like gun totting inventing magic people?

I have no idea XD what ya mean to be honest. But ill try

warpwind · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:28 am

Steampunk generally refers to stuff that is set in an older time period (Victorian era, wild west) but with accelerated technology. The tech is generally based around steam and the contraptions themselves have lots of gears and clockwork and don't look sleek and modern.

They've listed a bunch of anime examples above... but Last Exile would be another one.

For further reading...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

Wendesigns · **Posted:** Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:46 pm

thanks warpwind that's really helpful and interesting

takfugi · **Posted:** Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:02 pm

there's only a few i would recommend for usage
period drama's:
the twelve kingdoms, ninja scroll, steam boy, orphen, rurouni kenshin, last exile, gasaraki and trigun use for characters

space battle opera's:

star blazers, gundam, tylor, robotech & captain herlock...

fan service based anime (not panty shot kind):

genshiken and comic party...

fighting anime (some listing may resemble names of games) :
baki the grapler, street fighter, art of fighting, battle arena toshiden,
shoot fighter tekken, tekken, mortal kombat, virtua fighter, tenjho tenge and ikki tousen...

Samika · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:23 pm

takfugi wrote:

random lists

...What exactly is the point of your post?

[What exactly is the point of my post?]

knux · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:01 pm

Maybe dead-thread resurrection sickness?
Plenty of symptoms....

takfugi · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:49 pm

not really i haven't been around for a while, the subject looked interesting so i replied, since the topic was covering suggestions for banners, so i put my 2cent's in...

since i can't draw for shite, i was passing around idea's, that's all...

Bakaneko (BN) · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:13 am

takfugi wrote:

since the topic was covering suggestions for banners, so i put my 2cent's in...

No it wasn't.

takfugi · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:41 am

theme an mascots, use characters out of the formentioned anime i listed...

though i didn't say it directly though that's what i meant..

so sue me!! :lol:

next time i'll state what i'm talking about 1st...

the bunch of animes i listed would fit into the theme preety well, though the others could also fit well into that genre as there is many options you could choose from...

I watch that much anime it's hard to keep a track of all characters names, as they become a blur after a while...

it's easier for me to remember series names than indevidual characters, so i list series..

sorry for your confusion!!! :lol:

Bakaneko (BN) · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:26 am

takfugi wrote:

theme an mascots, use characters out of the formentioned anime i listed...

though i didn't say it directly though that's what i meant..

so sue me!! :lol:

next time i'll state what i'm talking about 1st...

the bunch of animes i listed would fit into the theme preety well, though the others could also fit well into that genre as there is many options you could choose from...

First off, out of all those anime you listed only 2-3 would be considered Steampunk which was the theme decided for Wai-Con 2008. How the hell would Genshiken or Gundam fit into the steampunk genre?

This is a competition for original character design. If you copy a character's design from a series (ie. you draw a picture of Howl from Howl's Moving Castle) and enter it in the competition, then you'd be breaking copyright. This character drawn will be used in all our promotional materials for 2008 and if the animation studio who made the plagiarised character finds out -- that little joke about sueing? It won't be so funny after a while.

Here's a tip - read the freakin' thread before you post. Look at the content of the messages, understand what's going on in the thread before you react, look to see if what you've written is poignant (or in-date) and THEN respond. Don't press that post button until you think that everyone can understand what you're trying to communicate.

Oh, and use the Shift key. Capital letters are your friend - your 2nd grade teacher would probably be disappointed if she saw that. :wink:

Inniss 1428 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:51 pm

Just a quick question on the rules, what of those of us who don't use photoshop, and do our drawings on paper anyway (so the work would be flat to start with)?

Bakaneko (BN) · **Posted:** Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:57 pm

Inniss 1428 wrote:

Just a quick question on the rules, what of those of us who don't use photoshop, and do our drawings on paper anyway (so the work would be flat to start with)?

I don't quite understand - are you asking if you can submit a paper entry? Unfortunately not - the artwork would have to be digital in some form. Otherwise we cannot mass produce it.

Or are you asking if it has to be a PSD file? I did mention earlier in the forum that I am accepting JPGs, but a higher resolution PSD would need to be made available. I don't mind if you don't have a PSD, but a higher resolution format should definitely be held for us should it be requested (more commonly a format that includes layer data). You don't have to use Photoshop - GIMP or Paint Shop Pro are two examples of similar programming that can translate work into a higher resolution format.

Inniss 1428 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:04 pm

Bakaneko (BN) wrote:

I did mention earlier in the forum that I am accepting JPGs, but a higher resolution PSD would need to be made available. I don't mind if you don't have a PSD, but a higher resolution format should definitely be held for us should it be requested (more commonly a format that includes layer data). You don't have to use Photoshop - GIMP or Paint Shop Pro are two examples of similar programming that can translate work into a higher resolution format.

Ah ok, no problems then.

EDIT: Completely missed that question being answered already... oops >.<

Chisa · **Joined:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:19 pm **Posts:** 33

Ack, I feel like I'm in uni again, working right up to the last minute of the deadline... but what time on the 27th is the cutoff? Midnight perhaps?

Lenoria Lightbringer · **Posted:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:14 pm

I think we were planning to make the decision at the GM, which is at 1pm.

But it's up to Mike in the end. (Bakaneko)

Bakaneko (BN) · **Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:22 am

As long as a JPG is in my email by midnight tomorrow, all's good.

Chisa · **Joined:** Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:19 pm **Posts:** 33

Excellent, thanks for that!

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