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All the awesome entries have been received for our artbook fanart contest and now it's time for the fans to pick their winner! Please visit: http://s648.photobucket.com/albums/uu201/fanimecon_artists/artbook_contest/?albumview=grid

Pick your favorite entry and private message me with the subject "Fan's Art Contest Vote." Please format your message like this:

Entry ## (this is your most favorite piece)

You have until Friday, April 24th to get in your votes! Any votes after that will not be counted. Thanks everyone! :D

[New Update!]

New Update!

All is said and done for the contest, the entries were fantastic and the voting was close! The books have been sent to print and will be available for purchase on 5/22 in Artist Alley for $25 incl. tax. There will be an awards ceremony for the art contest winners on Friday, 5/22 at 4pm on Stage Zero. Come check it out and help us celebrate this truly By Fans, For Fans project!

Old Update!

Hello, everyone! Firstly, I want to thank everyone who has expressed interest here and contributed their thoughtfulness and suggestions! In the interests in staying true to our motto, "By Fans, For Fans," we feel we should create more of a doujinshi-style artbook that includes not only Fanime artwork archives and comics, but fan art as well!

By creating a doujinshi-style book, we are able to keep costs low so that more fans can purchase copies at a reasonable price. Finances are tight for everyone, including Fanime, which is why we want to make sure we don't pass astronomical printing prices onto our fans!  Additionally, we feel that a nice paperback book would feel more home-grown, as is Fanime itself. We know a hardback pretty would be delicious, and certainly our fans are worth it! However, we decided that being able to shave $15 from the cover price would make an important difference!

We got budget approved and now we're ready to make this thing happen!

Details
So here are the new details on the book! Please disregard the old information.

Content
Chronicles the artwork produced by Fanime's Artist Pool over the last 5 years! We're hoping to include to short manga chapters from two of our staff artists as well as a sketch/work in progress gallery. But, we also decided thanks to the input of many fans, that it wouldn't be a proper Fanime book if we didn't have fan contributions! See below for information on the contest.

Size/Specs
A4, 8.264inx11.694in. Paperback, perfect-bound with a full color cover and full color interior pages (except manga in black and white). Page Count TBD, at least 68 pages.

Cost
$20 (subject to change, but not likely to)

Editions are limited! The first pressing will only run 250 copies. It is not yet known whether Fanime will pursue a second run as we are doing this as a special celebration of our 15th year. If they are snapped up quickly, we may consider printing more. If not, we will continue to sell them until they are gone and that will be it.

About the Contest

By popular demand, we will hold a fanart contest! However, it will be slightly unconventional. There will not be a traditional ranking of 1st, 2nd, 3rd. There will be three winners in the following categories: Artist Pool Favorite, Staff Favorite and Fan Favorite! Each of the three winning pieces will be printed on a full page and the artist will receive one free copy of the artbook, signed by the artist staff (and maybe even sketched in, if you ask nicely!). There will also be a gallery of runners up that will be printed in the book in much smaller spaces, similar to fanart sections of magazines. Unfortunately, the runners up will not be elligible to receive free copies of the book, but will be able to be recognized for their hardwork by being printed and seen by hundreds of fans!

Fans will have until Friday, April 3rd, 2009 to submit their pieces! That's just under one month, folks. It may seem soon, but we need to get the selection process underway so we can get the book to print in April.

Rules/Details
1) Deadline: 11:59PM, Pacific Time, April 3rd, 2009. NO ENTRIES SUBMITTED AFTER THIS DATE WILL BE ACCEPTED.

2) Content: Your fanart must be an illustration or drawing featuring at least one of Fanime's five mascots: Amber, Becky, Candy, Damien and/or Elliot. http://fanimecon.deviantart.com/art/Fanime-Character-Sheet-113001063. Sorry, no photography or writing allowed; this is strictly an illustration-based project.

3)The characters can be featured in any theme from the last five years (Urban/College Students, Cyberpunk Gothic & Lolita, Space Odyssey, Feudal Japan or Music/J-rock) OR you may come up with any situation or theme of your choice, within good reason.

4)Absolutely NO hentai, yaoi or yuri! Anything of an exaggerated sexual nature will be declined. We have a wide range of attendee ages in our audience of which we have to be considerate. Romantic situations are welcome, of any gender pairing, but please keep it PG. (For the record, Amber/Damien and Elliot/Candy are considered "canon" in the Fanime universe.. aka in the artist pool's brains. LOL)

5) Media: Any media, traditional or digital, color or black and white, is accepted, so long as the file you submit meets our requirements.

6) File Submission:
- You MUST submit a CMYK digital file or scan of 300 dpi or higher
- File size should be 8.514in x 11.944in. This is bigger than the book size to allow for trimming during the printing process.
- Vertical orientation preferred but not required. If you have a neat idea for a landscape, square or oval design, go for it, but make sure your piece is at least 8.514in wide.
- All art should be sent to [email protected]. Please avoid sending attachments larger than 5MB! We may not receive them! Use a free file hosting service such as YouSendIt.com or MegaUpload, and send us a link.

7) Info to be published with your artwork if it wins:
Title of the Piece: (Optional)
Name you would like published: (Required!)
Age: (Optional)
Location: (Optional)
Website or DeviantArt URL: (Optional)

8) Info we need for legal and logistical purposes (will NOT be shared with anyone!)
Your Legal Name:
Your Age:
Your Address:
Your Contact Number:
Your Contact E-mail:

9) Agreement: By submitting your work you certify the following:
- Fanime has permission to reprint your work as part of the "Fanime 15th Anniversary Artbook" without compensation other than outlined in the prizes section.
- Artwork becomes property of FanimeCon, as all characters are copyright FanimeCon, however FanimeCon will NOT use your artwork in any profitable projects outside this artbook. As artists ourselves, we respect artists rights.
- You are over the age of 18 OR you have received parental permission to participate.
- The artwork is 100% your creation! Copying or tracing is prohibited. All members of the artist team are active on DeviantArt. We all love anime genre's across the gamut. Don't think we won't know.
- You are not and never have been part of the FanimeCon artist staff.

10) Winners for each category will be chosen by vote. Artist Pool will vote on their favorite, Staff Pick votes will be held at a staff meeting. Depending on the number of entries, the Fan Favorite category will be isolated into 10-20 finalists on which fans can vote. Final voting will be held via poll on this forum.

Please feel free to post with any questions!

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Old Post:

2009 will be the 15th anniversary of FanimeCon! Woo! We have been throwing around the idea of putting together a special, limited edition commemorative artbook to collect mascot artwork from the last several years of Fanime. The artbook would contain illustrations spanning the last 5 years of the convention, Fanime character profiles, artist profiles and maybe even a short manga featuring the Fanime characters. It will be a nice hardback book with a dustjacket, like anime and manga artbooks one can purchase from their favorite series.

We'd like your feedback on interest in this project! To get this project approved, we need to make sure there will be enough fan interest and demand, so please post your thoughts and feelings. :}

Hiya, everyone! I'm the Artist Pool Manager & Theme Coordinator for FanimeCon. I thought I would post a few things about this year's theme that you might find interesting, or things to look forward to regarding our characters.

The official theme for the year is "Feudal Japan." As always, we will be making sure we retain our cool/fun image you all know so well, while promoting the sophistication and elegance of the theme. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do... it's been a blast developing the artwork and characters for this year.

Aout the characters. Some of you may know the names of our characters already, but I describe their features anyway for those who don't. This year, our characters have been put in the universe of fuedal Japan and they have been given occupations/class status to reflect it. The characters will be consistantly be portrayed in these roles in most cases.

Amber: This is the quiet girl with long black hair. This year, she's a skilled female ninja (daughter of the leader of a the leading clan).

Becky: This is the perky light-brown haired girl with pig tails. She's the fairly non-specific class, the daughter of a middle class family.

Candy: Candy is the girl with wavey, firey orange-red hair. This year she's featured as a princess.

Damien: He's the casual cool brown-haired guy. He's the son of a merchant who is helping run the family business with his father. He and Amber have a little connection... ;]

Elliot: This is the confident blonde guy with glasses. He plays the role of a swordsman for this year's theme.


The artwork currently on the website are the works of Wen-M and Myself (colors) and were only meant for promotional purposes. Hopefully we will have the finished artwork for the website up soon.