Red Feather Community Chest x piapro Contest 2021 Has Begun
After the much excitement and enjoyment of last year’s Red Feather Community Chest x Hatsune Miku contests, it was only natural to bring the iconic collaboration back for the charity’s tenth anniversary!
What is the Red Feather Community Chest, though?
They are a charity organization which aims to help all of those in need, especially during disaster relief! They operate all across Japan and hold drives, such as this, to encourage donations among other ways to support towards people who need help. You an recognise them by their red feather logo!
Here we’ll explain how you can get involved, and potentially be a factor in supporting such a wonderful charity!
※All of the translations here are unofficial
As with last year, the illustration contest is split into two parts, the poster designing contest and the theme song composition contest!
Poster design contest
- Theme: Anniversary / アニバーサリー
- Number of winners: 1 (or more, final results are down to the organisers’ discretion)
- Characters you can draw: Hatsune Miku NT ＋ Kagamine Rin / Kagamine Len / Megurine Luka / MEIKO / KAITO
Post format
- Work size: A4 vertical size ([vertical] 3508px x [horizontal] 2480px)
- File format: JPEG, PNG
- Color mode: RGB
- Resolution: 350dpi or higher
Submission guidelines:
- The work MUST contain the Hatsune Miku NT design and can NOT use any other Hatsune Miku design.
- The work should include the “Red Feather” motif and no other colored feathers. However, tracing/copying and pasting the Red Feather logo itself is not allowed.
- Please submit without setting a license (see below)
※Please note that conversion of your artwork into CMYK format will be necessary for the sake of printing, and therefore the final printed versions may differ slightly colour-wise
※Your work may need to be cropped for usage
Reference for Hatsune Miku NT
Illustration contest
- Theme: An illustration for the “Red feather Community Chest x Snow Miku” to be used only in Hokkaido
- Number of winners: 1 (or more, final results are down to the organisers’ discretion)
- Characters you can draw: Snow Miku 2011 + Kagamine Rin / Kagamine Len / Megurine Luka / MEIKO / KAITO / Rabbit Yukine
- The work MUST include the Snow Miku 2011 design and can not use any other Snow Miku design.
- The work should include the “Red Feather” motif and no other colored feathers. However, tracing the Red Feather logo itself is not allowed.
- Do not put any text on the illustrations.
Post format
- Work size: A4 vertical size ([vertical] 3508px x [horizontal] 2480px)
- File format: JPEG, PNG
- Color mode: RGB
- Resolution: 350dpi or higher
Submission guidelines:
- The work MUST contain the Snow Miku 2011 design and you can NOT use any other Hatsune Miku design.
- The work should include the “Red Feather” motif and no other colored feathers. However, tracing/copying and pasting the Red Feather logo itself is not allowed.
- Please submit without setting a license (see below)
※Please note that conversion of your artwork into CMYK format will be necessary for the sake of printing, and therefore the final printed versions may differ slightly colour-wise
※Your work may need to be cropped for usage
Reference for Snow Miku 2011:
Song Contest
- Theme: A song to support the “Red Feather Community Chest” campaign
- Number of Works Chosen: 2 winners
- Character vocals allowed: Hatsune Miku/ Kagamine Rin/ Kagamine Len / Megurine Luka / MEIKO / KAITO
※Append, V3, V4X, NT are also allowed to be used
Submission guidelines
- File format: MP3
- Please post without setting a license (see below)
General information
- Application period for all three contests: April 20th 2021 ~ June 1st 2021 at 17:00 JST
- Results announcement date: August 2021
How to Enter
After making your illustration that follows all the guidelines, you’ll have to submit it to piapro!
Those without accounts can sign up here.
After uploading, tag your entry with the appropriate tag:
- For poster designs: 赤い羽根２１＿ポスター
- For illustrations: 赤い羽根２１＿雪ミク
- For song submissions: 赤い羽根２１＿曲
And make sure to tag lock (タグロック) whichever one you’re using (either at this point or after you’ve uploaded the work). To do this, once you’ve finished uploading your artwork, go to the said uploaded work and click on the blue cog above it. Click on the lock icon next to the appropriate tag to tag lock it.
Make sure not to license your entry
Cautionary Points
- Amount of submissions allowed: one entrant can enter as many times as they like, but only one entry can be chosen to win at the end of the competition overall.
- 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
- 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 June 1st 2021 to avoid this. Anything posted after the entry deadline will NOT be eligible for participation.
- It might be necessary for the contest organizers to crop your design.
- It might be necessary for the contest organizers to shorten or omit your entry title.
- Entries must be the work of a single individual; entries created by companies or a group of people are not allowed.
- Make sure to not change your email address after completing your entry.
- You are solely responsible if claims are filed against your entry for infringing on the rights of any third party. The contest organizers bear no responsibility.
- Your nickname that will be displayed with your entry will be the one that you set at the licensing step. If a name is not set, then your piapro nickname piapro ID will be displayed instead.
- 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 (you may be consulted about any potential alterations to the design etc. so please be keep this in mind).
As previously noted, winners will be announced sometime around August according to the competition website, and also announced on the piapro blog. Please be sure you have an up-to-date email where they can contact you in case you do win!
We look forward to seeing what fans are able to come up with for the tenth anniversary of the collaboration!
You can also check out the results of last year’s contest for inspiration here, if you so wish!
~Tanudama
Links
Red Feather Community Chest
- Official Website
- Official Twitter (Hokkaido)
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