The 5th National college original animation environmental creative contest

Background

The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put the construction of ecological civilization in a prominent position in the overall situation of modernization, put forward the goal of construction of resource - saving and environment - friendly society and building beautiful China. President Xi also stressed repeatedly the importance of protection of environment. 10 years ago, when he worked in Zhejiang province, he pointed out that environment is our treasure. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) took environment as one of the five development concepts, and required that we should insist on the national strategy that is saving resources and protecting the environment during the 13th Five-Year Plan period. We should insist on the road of manufacturing and developing, rich lives, good environment and civilization. Collaborative push forward and enrich our people, strengthen our nation, beautify our China and form a new pattern of modern construction of man and nature in harmonious development.

 

Everyone is responsible for protecting the environment and everyone can do this. College students are the future and hope of our society. Their environmental awareness and ecological civilization is related to the society’s future. We hope that through holding the national college original animation environmental creative contest, we can wake the awareness of protecting environment of the new generation. We want to build the platform where they can express their ideas of protecting the environment and then let them drive families and then the whole society. Contribute their positive strength for the realization of “blue sky, clear water, green mountains, clean earth”.

 

Organizers

Host: Zhejiang Environmental Protection Bureau

Co-organizers: Longyou county Tourism Commission

            Longyou Longshang cultural investment management Co. ltd

            “Longy You Shang Bang-Go to Longshang” paper media

            Hangzhou animation & game industry study cooperation forum organizing committee

            Cogito software Co. ltd.

Undertaker:  Hangzhou Yuanmei cultural creation Co. ltd

Only specified software of the competition: Cogito Toon Boom Harmony

 

Topics:

The context’s topic is environment is our treasure. 2016 the context is mainly about “clearer water, greener mountain, bluer sky, cleaner earth” and the new environmental protection law. Attenders need to make workers about the topic.

 

The context set specific topic--- Longyou animation creative theme.

The theme of works is “Beautiful Zhejiang, travel to Longyou”. Contestants need to explore the famous tourist sites in Longyou county and make manga around the topic of Longyou’s environment protection, good tourism. (Pleasing looking for the Wechat public ID “Longyou tourism”, “Longshangxing”, “Longyou rock cave scenic tourism” “Longyou news” for more information)

 

Scope of the contest

The contest collects works from nationwide colleges and universities. We hope that colleges and universities from different areas can organize, start, encourage and guide the students and communities which are related to the creation of animation.

 

Categories and the requirements of the works

 

To ensure the standardization, institutionalization of the contest and improve the level of the contest works, contest organizing committee specifies Cogito Toon Boom Harmony as the only software to make the animation.

 

Notice: There are three subjects in this contest. They are contest animation unit, contest manga unit and special Longyou manga unit.

• Contest animation unit: This includes the 2D animations which are made by Toon Boom Harmony, flash and so on and 3D animations made by maya or 3D MAX. The format can be Harmony and the Corresponding source file format. MP4 format is also fine. The total length of a single work shall not exceed 30 minutes. The cumulative duration of a series of works shall not exceed 100 minutes.
• Contest manga unit: single manga, four-frame mange, several-frame manga, illustration; Other graphic, advertising design works. Please Company the works with 500 words or so text description. JPG, TIFF, GMYK format, resolution not less than 300 dpi; If hand-painted drafts wants to attend the contest, please save the original draft and scan it.
• Special Longyou manga unit: single manga, four-frame mange, several-frame manga, illustration; Other graphic, advertising design works. Please Company the works with 500 words or so text description. JPG, TIFF, GMYK format, resolution not less than 300 dpi; If hand-painted drafts wants to attend the contest, please save the original draft and scan it.

 

Schedule and timeline

 

The outline of the timeline of the contest:

Creation stage: 1/1/2016—5/31/2016

Works selection stage: 6/1/2016—6/20/2016

Exhibition and award stage (Zhejiang Ecological day-- Competition Award Ceremony and Animation Show):6/29/2016—7/1/2016

 

Special Longyou manga unit schedule:

Creation stage: 3/1/2016—4/15/2016

Works selection stage: 4/16/2016—4/20/2016

Award time and location: 4/26/2016 at Zhejiang Quzhou city Longyou Guomao Hotel

 

Other requirements:

• All the works can be personal works or the school, multiple people works. Before attending the contest, the applicant needs to make sure the position in its group. Applicant needs to be responsible for the works. All prices will be awarded to the applicants or schools.
• Applicants need to fill out application forms for every single work and write the short descriptions for the works. Series of works can be written in one application form.
• All animation works are needed to state at the start of the work like this: The 5th National college original animation environmental creative contest. Apart from the start and the end of the works, creators or manufacturers’ name, contact information and other related information cannot be in the works.
• All applicants need to send the digital version of the application form and works to the contest designated posting mailbox. The name of the mail shall be “Unit of the work—name of the work—applicant’s name”
• The works that cannot be accepted:

• The copyright is unclear or plagiarism suspected works.
• Works which are not original and have attended other contest or competition.
• Works whose topics are apparently diverged.
• Contents are empty; propagandas which don not contain the technology knowledge; warning works or works which only contain natural scenery.
• Contents which are violating the law or passive.

 

The setting of award of every unit

 

Contest animation unit: one grand prize, one first prize, 3 second prizes, 5 third prizes;

Remark: Grand prize is only for those works which are made by Toon Boom Harmony

Contest manga unit: one first prize, three second prizes, 5 third prizes; 10 outstanding organizational companies or schools with the certifications; 20 outstanding guiding teachers with certifications;

Every unit has numerous Excellence Awards;

All prizes will be given certifications, bonus and awards.

Special Longyou manga unit(Pleasing looking for the Wechat public ID “Longyou tourism”, “Longshangxing”, “Longyou rock cave scenic tourism” “Longyou news” for more information)

One first prize with award 5000 RMB, three second prize with award 2000 RMB, five third prizes with award 1000 RMB;

There are numerous Excellence Awards.

All prizes will be given certifications, bonus and awards.

 

Ways of submission your works

 

• Sending e-mails to the following address: 919828004@qq.com. This e-mail only accept works but not for advisory.
• The name of the mail shall be “Unit of the work—name of the work—applicant’s name”
• This time the contest commission will not accept hardcopy or disc, etc.

 

The contact information of the contest organization commission

Tel. 0571-28999078, 28889372. Contactor: Miss Xiong

Address: Building 24, Chaijia Wu, Shengtai Dongman Chuangyi Cheng, Baima Lake, Binjiang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

 

Other notice

• Applicants need to obey the related laws and shall be responsible for the intellectual property of the works. If there was infringement, the hosts would have the right to revoke the awards, prizes and certifications;
• Entries cannot contain advertisements and external illegal link;
• For the sake of the public welfare, all entries will be saved into Zhengjiang protection environment science database and will be referred and discussed;
• For the sake of the public welfare, the hosts have the right to use the winning works free of charge, including public welfare science propaganda on the public media platform and to modify and interpret with no correction of the core contents of the works;
• The applicants nee to reserve the origin works, for the sake of the check.

 

Propaganda and Promotion

 

• The awarded works will attend the animation exhibition of series of activities of Zhejiang ecology day;
• The winners can be partners of Zhejiang environmental protection science project production;
• Some outstanding woks can be recommended to attend the national outstanding science works’ award selection activities;
• The awarded works may be used in the Zhejiang ecology day and the related environment protection public welfare activities depending on the circumstances.

 

About Toon Boom Harmony

 

The animation frenzy swept the Chinese mainland in recent years. There are Japanese, American and European animations and their derivative works everywhere. Their huge output value and the high development speed attract every country’s attention. In China’s animation market, the 2D animation works such as “Havoc in Heaven”, “The Tadpoles Look for Their Mommy” all represent the highest level of the Flash which is a 2D animation production software. Therefore, in the international environment in which the competition is becoming increasingly fierce, animation production in China should be speed up and make more higher quality, more populate animation works. Compared to the former traditional 2D animation software, The non-paper animation technique of Toon Boom Harmony which is developed by Canadian Toon Boom company not only is economical and environment friendly, but also enhance the efficiency of making animation process greatly. The bone binding and splitting techniques enhance the yield of the studio while provide a resource sharing platform for everyone in the group. Those provides powerful, convenient technical supports to the outstanding, high level animation works.

 

Toon Boom is widely used in Time Warner, Disney and many other animation companies. Representatives of them include “Les triplettes de Belleville”, “Looney Tunes: Back in Action”, “The Simpsons”, “Tous à l'Ouest: Une aventure de Lucky Luke”, “Curious George”, “The Princess and the Frog” and so on. At the same time, the domestic animation industry producers and universities are all searching for the combination of the tradition and modern animation production and have made great repercussions. “The big head son and little head father” of CCTV is undoubted the perfect output of Toon Boom. Nowadays, Chinese 2D animation is developing in full swing. Some academies and universities have combined the traditional draws and 2D software Toon Boom, walk out a new industry, academia, researching road and inject new vitality into the Chinese animation industry.

 

For more details, please contact Toon Boom Beijing:

Cogito software Co. ltd

Address: Room 1105, Tower C2, Hao Bai Da Sha, No.50 Zisanhuan North Road, Haidian District, Beijing China

Tel: +86(010) 68421378