The Cthulhu for President! campaign is proud to announce that it will be hosting the Hentai Music Video Awards at Fanime 2010!
Hentai Music Videos will be shown! Prizes will be given away! Laughs will be had! Peace in the Middle East will not be found!
Prizes will be given away for various categories and audience picks, ranging from money to trophies and hentai DVDs.
The Best of Show will be awarded a very special prize to be cherished and shown to friends and loved ones.
Below are the official contest rulesThese rules are subject to change without notice by FanimeCon or the
Contest Director if deemed necessary.
All videos will be screened and may be disqualified for failure to
follow any of the rules or guidelines, for violating the general
concept of the contest, or for any reason FanimeCon or the Contest
Director may see fit.
Limit of five (5) videos per entrant/group.
Videos must have been created on or after May 28th, 2003
Videos must be no longer than eight ( 8 ) minutes long.
All videos must be in the possession of the Contest Director by
midnight on May 14, 2010. All videos will be tested and any errors
must be corrected by May 21, 2010.
All entrants and members of groups submitting videos must be over 18.
Awards that are chosen by the Audience will be chosen by auditory
voting. In the event that method is unclear by the determination of
the Contest Director, the audience will physically move into groups to
signify their vote. If, after such physical groupings, the voting is
still unclear, the prize will be split between the two highest
entries.
Content Guidelines:
No Yaoi or Yuri
No Guro
No Scat
No Bestiality
No Futanari
No Real-Life Porn. This means no pornography of actual human beings in the flesh
Nothing Illegal
Keep any violence and/or abuse to a minimum
BDSM - Wax, whipping and bondage are allowed. Bloodplay is prohibited.
Due to the variety of BDSM, any other kind of BDSM must be approved by
FanimeCon and the Contest Director in order to be permitted.
Use of regular anime is allowed, but the primary spirit of these
awards is for hentai music videos. Insufficient hentai is terms for
disqualification. Videos must be at least %50 hentai.
Tentacles are allowed and encouraged!
Awards/Categories
Cthulhu's pick (Chosen by Contest Director)
Audience's Overall pick (Chosen by Audience)
Best use of Tentacles (Chosen by Audience)
Best use of Music (Chosen by Audience)
Technical Rules
The below has been copied from the FMV rules for 2010. If there is a
discrepancy between the two, treat these as authoritative.
Submitting your videos
Visit
http://www.cthulhuforpresident.org for instructions on
submitting your files.
File Formats
We are only accepting files that are formatted in MPEG2, AVI, MP4, or
MOV. If you choose to select a format that is different from the one’s
listed we will contact you and ask that you change it’s format.
Please, when exporting your files stay within official resolutions
720X480 or an HD size of 1280x720 and with stereo audio.
General File Settings
Video:
29.97 Frames Per second
Encode with an aspect ratio of 16:9, 4:3 is allowed but might be
stretched during our conversion process.
If your original source was film or 24fps add a 3:2 Pulldown this will
convert it to 29.97 fps
Please encode your video as deinterlaced. Interlaced is OK but we will
deinterlace the video for the contest.
Video size must be either 720X480 4:3 Format or 1280X720 16:9 Format
Single pass set to a variable bit rate and select 16 megabits per second
If you use two pass VBR set to 2 megabits as the minimum, 8 megabits
as the average, and 16 megabits as the maximum.
Audio:
Use Layer-II or Layer-III audio at 224 Kilobits per second or better
Choose stereo over joint stereo for best quality
Sample at 44.1Khz
File size is rarely an issue, so try to make your video as high
quality as possible. Unlike the FMV contest, the Contest Director does
not have the ability to convert files for submitters. Submitters
should take responsibility for ensuring that the video is playable.
You can find information on file conversion in the FMV 2010 rules.
If you have any questions, please contact me at hmv@cthulhuforpresident.org
