Call for Entries for the Let’s Keep it Green! Web Animation

(Web Animation Contest – Kobelco Systems Corporation Award)

Webアニメコンテスト - コベルコシステム賞

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Kobelco Systems Corporation is cooperating in the production of the 13th Animation Kobe’s Web Animation Contest, in which they are calling for entries to create web animations with the theme of “Let’s Keep it Green!”.

1. Submissions

Theme:

Web Animations with the theme of “Let’s Keep it Green!”

Length of Work:

Up to 3 minutes per work

File Size:

Up to 1 MB (in case of several data files, total file size should not exceed 1 MB)

File Format:

a. Flash Movie.(*.swf) made by "Adobe Flash" etc. of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
b. Eva Format (*.eva) made by "EVA animator (series)" of Sharp Corporation.

* You must obtain appropriate permission from the original creator(s) of the file regarding usage of the music, sound effects and graphics etc. in this contest and your submission.
* In relation to the “Kobelco Systems Corporation Award” where works may be displayed on the Kobelco Systems Corporation website, be advised that there may be requests for changes’ to the length and size of the submissions, or additional messages.

 

2. Submission Procedure / Submission Deadline / Address

How to submit:

All works must be submitted by E-mail.
* Please attach your work and the Entry Form filled in to the E-Mail.

Submission Deadline:

September 12, 2008 (Friday). E-mails received thereafter will not be accepted.

Address:

Web Animation Contest Administration Office webcon2008@googlegroups.com

3. Judges

At the first stage of judging, the “Kobe Digital Contents Council” will select up to five submissions for their excellence. These five submissions will then be assessed by a secondary panel of judges from Kobelco Systems Corporation., where one “Kobelco Systems Corporation Award” and four “Excellence Awards” will be chosen. The submission chosen for the “Kobelco Systems Corporation Award” will be used on the companies’ website. However, if the quality of submissions do not meet the standard that organisers expect, it may be considered as “not pertinent”.

* The results are expected to be posted during October 2008 on the “Web Animation Contest” and Kobelco Systems Corporation’s websites.

Assessment Criteria

The submission clearly and enthusiastically expresses the theme of “Let’s Keep it Green!”

4. Awards (denominations/supplementary prizes)

Kobelco Systems Corporation Award

One submission is chosen according to the guidelines outlined above.
Prize: 100,000 yen

Excellence Award

Chosen by the judges according to the guidelines outlined above.
Prize: 30,000 yen

* If the recipient of the award is under 20 years of age, the parent (or guardian/guarantor) must give permission for the award to be presented. Please note that the organizers are not involved with the declaration of the prize to the taxation office.

Policy for Handling of submitted work

1. The ownership and copyright of submitted work remain with the creator. However, the competition organisers; Executive Committee of Animation Kobe, Kobe Digital Contents Council, and Kobe City Hall, reserve the rights to use submitted work for the purpose of display over the internet and in related promotional events.

* Once the Web Animation Contest Administration Office receives an application, the organisers gain rights to adapt, reproduce, show, make it transmittable and right of public transmission.

2. In the case of the organisers using submitted material, organisers may ask for minor variations to be made. The screen size and layout of submitted material may be changed by the organisers at the organizer’s discretion.

3. Applications must not use third party material and/or infringe copyright. If the work or comments therein are deemed by the organisers to have; used personal information (including real names), violated the privacy of others, infringed intellectual property rights, or included publicly offensive material, the organisers reserve the right to remove the submission from the competition or to delete relevant material.

4. Please note that submitted material will not be returned to the applicant.

Policy for Handling of Personal Information

Personal information provided on the “Web Animation Contest Entry Form” will be handled in an appropriate manner according to Kobe City’s Personal Information Protection Regulations and appropriate measures will be taken to prevent information being leaked.

Purpose of use

1. To establish contact with applicants in point to be checked
2. To establish contact with applicants regarding notification of winning a prize or details of awarding ceremony
Personal information provided will not be used for anything other than the purposes stated above. However, when permission is given by the applicant, personal information provided may be used for other purposes. In which case the personal information will only be used for the specific purpose an applicant has given permission for.

Providing information to a third party

Personal information provided will only be used within the departments listed below, which require the information. The information will not be used or shown elsewhere to a third party unless there is permission given by the applicant or in legally permit able circumstances, however, it excludes it when sharing as follows.

Shared use of information

Personal Information provided will be used in association with the Web Animation Contest Administration Office.
1. Shared User

Web Animation Contest Administration Office

2. Purpose of use

(1) To establish contact with applicants in point to be checked
(2) To establish contact with applicants regarding notification of winning a prize or details of awarding ceremony.

3. Person data details

Details included on the “Web Animation Contest Entry Form”

4. Manager

Director of Executive Committee of Animation Kobe

Only the personal information for short-listed submissions (less than five), are to be shared with Kobelco Systems Corporation.

1. Shared User

Kobelco Systems Corporation

2. Purpose of use

(1) To establish contact with applicants in point to be checked
(2) To establish contact with applicants regarding notification of winning a prize or details of awarding ceremony.

3. Personal data details

Details included on the “Web Animation Contest Entry Form”

4. Manager

Director of Executive Committee of Animation Kobe

Deposit of Personal Information

In relation to personal information provided, this information may be processed by a third party within the boundaries of the purposes of use.

Regarding the display, correction and deletion of submissions

If the applicant requests to make changes regarding their personal information being shown, changed, or deleted, Animation Kobe Executive Committee Administration will confirm that the request is being made by the applicant himself/herself then proceed to take action. In such a case, please contact the Animation Kobe Executive Committee Administration Office (Tel: 078-322-5042)

Regarding the “Web Animation Contest Entry Form”

If the prerequisites for the “Web Animation Contest Entry Form” have not been fulfilled, or if the applicant does not (indicate that they) agree to our handling of personal information policy, the submitted work will not be considered for competition.

Personal Information Manager

Director of Executive Committee of Animation Kobe
ICT Planning and Promotion Manager, Information Promotion Department, Planning and Coordination Bureau, Kobe City Hall

Queries regarding the handling of personal information

Executive Committee of Animation Kobe (Tel: 078-322-5042)
c/o Information Promotion Department, Planning and Coordination Bureau, Kobe City Hall

Organizers:

Executive Committee of Animation Kobe, Kobe Digital Contents Council, Kobe City Hall and Kobelco Systems Corporation

Contacts:

Web Animation Contest administration office (Kobe City, Planning and Coordination Bureau, Information Promotion Department)
E-mail webcon2008@googlegroups.com

Homepage of Web Animation Contest:

http://webcon.umds.ac.jp/