Tsuina-chan Costume Illustration Contest “Tsuikon” Announcement
Adorable VOICEROID Tsuina-chan is looking for a new outfit for her wardrobe apparently, and you can help by entering this newly announced illustration competition! Do you think you have what it takes to design an outfit fit for a singing synthesiser ? If the answer is yes, them read on to find out what you have to do to get involved, and what you could win!
Details of the competition
- Submission dates: from 14th September 2020 until 16th November 2020 23:59 (JST)
- Number of winners: 3, one “Best” award, plus two “Excellence” awards
- Theme: A costume that will make Tsuina-chan look like a singing synthesiser
- Character: Tsuina-chan
Prizes
Best work – x1:
- VOICEROID2 Tsuina-chan package (or other singing software if you’d like, especially if you already own Tsuina-chan upon winning). The winner can also request for the original artist of Tsuina-chan, Saki Oohenri, or for Tsuina-chan herself to autograph said box!
- Tsuina-chan goods set
- Your design may also be used as an official costume/boxart design, though this isn’t guaranteed.
Excellence winners – x2:
- VOICEROID2 Tsuina-chan OR the set of Tsuina-chan goods
How to enter
Post your illustration to Twitter using the #ついなちゃん衣装コン tag in the post.
For anyone wanting to submit multiple entries, please make sure to post each different design as a separate post, including the necessary hashtag.
If you also have an accompanying illustration which gives specifics about the outfit design details, please attach it in the same tweet as the full body illustration plus the necessary tag.
Design guidelines
(Reference images of Tsuina-chan’s official boxart designs. Art by Saki Oohenri)
- It’s mentioned that Tsuina-chan would appreciate having “Dixon” (her four-eyed mask you can see in her regular boxart, shown above) included into these new designs somehow. She wears this mask as a part of her costume for the sake of exorcising demons, a process known as “Tsuina”, which is where her name comes from. Since the mask and reasoning behind it are so integral to her character, it may be fun to try and incorporate Dixon into your work!
- Tsuina-chan’s representative colours are black, red, orange and light pink, so you can try to include these in your design to give it a more “Tsuina-chan vibe”.
- Monochrome illustrations are acceptable.
- Chibi / SD designs are also acceptable.
- Illustrations need to be full-body ones.
- There are no specifications regarding your design dimensions, but please make sure that the resolution is high enough so that the judges can see all of the details clearly.
- You can play around with her hair as you like, but keep in mind that Tsuina-chan’s twin-drills are one of her iconic features differentiating her from other characters. Think about it: as a singing synthesiser (or even an idol), you want to have your own unique image, right?
Additional notes:
- Please keep in mind that the copyright of the adopted final design(s) belong to the Oni Hunter Tsuina-chan Project
- This may seem like an obvious one, but make sure that you don’t copy someone else’s work. Not only is plagiarism illegal, but this will cause a lot of hassle and will potentially lead to your entry being disqualified.
- Please refrain from submitting R18 outfit designs for the sake of this competition (don’t post anything R18 under the competition tag).
Results are said to be announced sometime in late November 2020, and the winner shall be contacted by Twitter DM. Results will also be announced on Tsuina-chan’s official Twitter account and on Fantia around the same time.
Should you win the competition, the majority (if not all) correspondence regarding your win and what you get as a prize will be done in Japanese from there on, so please make sure that you are able to converse to a good enough degree with said language in the case that you win.
How cool! There are so many ways to interpret this competition and create your own design, and we at VocaSphere can’t wait to see all the entries! Good luck to everyone entering this contest, and we’ll make sure to keep you all updated once the results are out!
~Tanudama
