Otomachi Una 5th Anniversary Illustration Contest
Time really does feel like it’s flying by – we can’t believe it’s been five whole years since VOCALOID Otomachi Una came into the world! In the past year she’s made it into mobile game Project SEKAI, had a collab with mobile app Ekimemo! Our rails, and even unveiled new merchandise for her official online store, to name but a few things. And while she’s also been supporting and conversing with fellow vocal synths on Twitter (such as Tsurumaki Maki), now the time has come to shine a spotlight on her, and celebrate her upcoming anniversary.
For all our artists in the community, found out all the details for how you can celebrate below!
※The following translations are all unofficial
Calendar Illustration Contest for 2021
July 30th 2021 will mark the fifth anniversary for Otomachi Una, and as with all the previous anniversaries of Una-chan, this year she’s searching for people to submit illustrations for the calendar contest! Winners will have their work featured in the official Otomachi Una calendar for 2022, and might even win some other cool prizes:
Submission dates:
From July 1st to August 10th 2021 (JST)
Prizes available: (12 winners )
- Comments from Saito Naoki (the official illustrator for Una TalkEX!) and Aimi Tanaka (Otomachi Una’s voice provider)
- A signed shikishi from Aimi Tanaka
- Amazon giftcard worth ¥5,000
- 1x Otomachi Una 2022 calendar
- Tenryuhama one day free ticket to ride the Unapipigo yourself!
Note: Up to 50 illustrations may also be used inside the Una train cars running on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway (potentially also including calendar competition winners). If you would like to opt out of this, you need to add the “ラッピングNG” tag when applying.
To get an idea for what how calendar might work, check out the one from 2019 here!
Visit the official illustration contest page here!
If you do not have a TINAMI account
You can sign up for one by clicking here.
※You may also log in with Twitter, Facebook, or Rakuten
Click on the blue button that says 契約に同意する (“Agree to the rules”)
On the next page, enter the following:
- A. Your email address
- B. Your username
- C. Password
- D. Password (again)
- E. Male (男性) or female (女性)
- F. Date of birth: Year (年)/Month (月)/Day (日)
- G. Whereabouts you live. You can either choose a prefecture in Japan or select 「日本外国(Outside Japan)」if you are an international entrant.
- Once finished, click 「登録する」(register) at the bottom of the page.
To finalise your account, you’ll need to fill in:
- H. Profile picture (You can choose an image file for your picture, or select the 「デフォルトに戻す」(stay with the default pfp image for now))
- I. Your self introduction. You can edit this later, so you don’t need to write a lot here just yet if you’re not ready to. Just make sure to add at least a greeting so that you can finish account setup.
- J. Select しない to not show your gender on your profile, or する to make it visible to anyone.
- K. Select しない to not show your age on your profile, or する to make it visible to anyone.
- L. Select しない to not show your location on your profile, or する to make it visible to anyone.
- M. Select しない to not show your support history on your profile, or する to make it visible to anyone.
- Once finished, click 「プロフィール登録する」(register profile) at the bottom of the page.
Then all you need to do is check your emails for an account verification email from TINAMI, and follow the link to use your account!
Note: in order to enter the competition, you’ll need to upload your artwork to TINAMI.
- When uploading your art, make sure to use the tag 「ct108una」to make your entry elligible. Please also make sure to add a seasonal/month related tag, to allow the judges to choose one piece of art for each month of the calendar. You can add tags for months like 「1月」 (January), 「2月」 (February) etc. or add a season: 「春」 (spring), 「夏」 (summer), 「秋」 (Autumn) or 「冬」 (winter).
- Your piece needs to be an image featuring Otomachi Una, in a way that it is clearly her (i.e. completely changing her hairstyle or body type would make her look less recognisable.) You can use official Una designs (e.g. her Sugar, Spicy, Talk versions) or your own design, but with the latter, it must be easy to recognise that it’s a drawing of Una.
- Your artwork needs to be 1378 pixels (width) X 2039 pixels (length) in size and 350dpi.
- Please make sure to retain the original art file even after submitting an entry, just in case the organisers need it, or any adjustments need to be made.
- Please don’t use any fonts or freely available materials in your work
- Imagery featuring anything train related aren’t necessary, but feel free to add them!
- You can submit as many entries as you wish!
- Please note that there may be some differences in colour if your winning artwork is in a CMYK format, since this will be transferred to a RGB format for printing in the calendar and for the in-train decorations.
- Please DO NOT post your artwork to anywhere else (aside from Tinami) until at least 2 months after the winners for this contest have been announced. If you’d like to share your artwork in the meantime, you’re allowed to share a link to your upload from Tinami to e.g. Twitter or Facebook.
The main prizes will for be winning the calendar competition, but you may also be able to have your art featured on the Unapipigo train too, something which is pretty cool in itself!
There’s still time to enter the contest, so don’t delay! Make sure to get your application in before August 10th JST, and good luck to you all! If you’re curious to see some of the entries for the contest so far and potentially find some inspiration, make sure to go to the official contest page here.
You can also find out about the excitement of last year’s contest and results right here if you’re curious!
Links
Official competition page on Tinami
Contest announcement on the Otomachi Una website
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