SNOW MIKU x piapro “Let’s All Make Something Together” Art Competition Starts Now!
Another year means another Snow Miku, and another Sapporo Snow Festival means another art competition! This time they are searching for promotional art to decorate the exhibition area sponsored by Wing Bay Otaru in Hokkaido!
Details of the competition
- Submission dates: from November 10th at 14:00 until December 11th at 5PM (JST)
- Theme: SNOW MIKU 2021
- Characters allowed: Snow Miku 2021 / Rabbit Yukine 2021 / Kagamine Rin / Kagamine Len / Megurine Luka / MEIKO / KAITO
- Number of winners: 3
Information about submitting your entry
You can download the full template required here:
https://piapro.jp/pages/official_collabo/snowmiku2021_art/detail by clicking on this button:
- Size of submission: 210 x 297mm / A4 size (please use the template provided, but please do not resize it or change the resolution of it).
- Amount of submissions allowed: one entrant can enter as many times as they like, but only one of their entries can be chosen to win at the end of the competition overall.
- Color mode for submissions: RGB
- Required file format: png / jpg
- Resolution: 350dpi
- Licensing: Do NOT set a license for your entry. Licenses cannot be changed after posting your entry, so the only way to change this would be to delete and re-upload your entry
- Tags: whatever tags you use, make sure to include the 「雪ミクみんなでアート」 tag when you post to piapro, otherwise your entry won’t be counted. When posting your design, any current competition or collaboration tags will be displayed with other popular tags. Also make sure to lock said tag.
- Please make sure to not modify or change the colour of the credits and logo at the bottom of the template.
- Your entry must NOT have been published anywhere else or entered into any other previous competitions.
- The final day of submitting competition entries, the website may face an influx of entries which can cause delays to uploading posts. Therefore please try to upload entries slightly earlier than December 11th at 5PM (JST) to avoid this. Anything posted after the entry deadline will NOT be eligible for participation.
- Anyone underage will need permission from a parent or guardian to join in with the competition. Being “underage” should depend on the law where you live, since the page lists “18” as being an adult, while “20” is cited as the age of becoming an adult in Japan.
- If you are selected to win, all following correspondence will be in Japanese. Hence why you will most probably need to have a reasonable knowledge of the language if you decide to enter the competition.
Since this is a collaboration with piapro, all illustrations need to be submitted via their official website! You can log in here, or create an account here to get started.
Other illustration notes
- It should be possible to draw multiple “target characters” (GSR Miku designs from 2010 to 2020) in one single illustration.
- Illustrations that do not include the target character or include the non-target character will NOT be eligible for the competition.
- Winnings works may have to be trimmed and the artist’s name may be removed for the sake of exhibitions etc, so please keep this in mind.
- Costumes that CAN be included in your submission: SNOW MIKU 2021 costume / any character costumes featured on official boxart shown here, original costumes you’ve designed yourself.
- Costumes that CAN’T be inclued in your submission: any costumes from any games (such as Project DIVA/ Project MIRAI/ Project SEKAI games), anime (like Shinkalion) or manga.
Results are said to be announced at some point in January 2021, and the winners shall be contacted by email. Results will also be announced on the Piapro blog around the same time.
If you happen to be selected as the winner, you will receive an email ending with “@crypton.co.jp”, sent to the email address attached to your registered Piapro account. The majority (if not all) correspondence will be 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.
We wish all of you artists out there the best of luck!
Thank you for reading, and if anything, make sure to have fun with your illustrations!
~Tanudama
