Yowzers, hard to believe this is already the fourth year I've held this contest. Thanks to the kindness and generosity of Vixy, this year my Valentine's fanart contest is being fully hosted at RPM for your submitting and viewing pleasure. Being the holiday season, I apologize for not being completely 100% organized today, but I wanted to at least launch the rules and key info so that all participants will have exactly two months from today to submit their entries. Vixy and I will work to get a link working on the main page with the complete rundown as soon as possible.
Once again, there will be two separate categories, with three winners from each. The first category was voted on by you, the fans, on my deviantART page. According to you and Billy Idol, it's apparently
a nice day for a white wedding. The second category was chosen by me, and tries to divert from the other theme just a little bit. Crank up the Jon Bovi: Shot through the heart, in this videogame, Megavillain,
you give love a bad name (...bad name...).
RULES:Two categories. You are allowed to enter one piece of art in both, if you would like. If you place in one category, you will be automatically disqualified from placing in the other, for reasons of fairness.
CATEGORY 1: IT'S A NICE DAY FOR A WHITE WEDDING (Talent)Some characters are just made for each other. And it's time they profess their everlasting love for their significant other. You can get creative with this theme, so you don't only have to draw a traditional wedding pic. Whether it's the proposal, getting fitted for a tux/dress, throwing a wedding party (please no bachelor or bachelorette parties that are above PG-15
), or actually walking down the aisle, your job is to draw Rockman characters involved in some type of wedding-themed picture. This theme will work as the talent category, so the judging will focus on the technical skill and effort you put into your piece.
CATEGORY 2: YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME (Humor)If there is one thing about the villains in the Rockman world, it's that they are persistent. They keep trying and trying and coming back for more. While they get an A for effort in their quests for world domination, it probably wouldn't score them points with the ladies, if that's how they tried to woo them. Your task for this theme is to draw a Rockman villain trying to force a goody goody hero/heroine to fall in love with them. You'll have a little leeway with choosing a bad guy. Even if they turned good at some point in the games/animes, they are open for use as long as they are playing the part of baddy in your image. Again, get creative. You can even try the forced marriage pic, if you want to attempt to merge these two themes together! LOL This theme will work as the humor category, so the judging will focus on the wacky, zany content you come up with.
- Only submit your own work, as usual. Any character, major or minor, from any series is allowed. Having characters from different series is totally allowed. Again, to be fair to all, same-gender groupings are allowed. Humans and robots and reploids and servbots and computer programs and viruses and alien AM/FM beings, etc. all deserve their chance for some lovin', without prejudice!!
- Entries do not need to be colored, but it is preferred.
- Please keep all your entries clean. No nudity or extremely suggestive sexual content. No, this is still not a Valentine's hentai contest.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:Entries can either be e-mailed to Vixy at RPM at mistress@rockmanpm.com, Vixy's Gmail account at vixylicious@gmail.com, or you can just PM Vixy or I a link to your pic.
DO NOT post your pics in this thread, in your fanart threads or dA/Sheezy/etc. galleries until the contest is over. This is the fairest way for competitive reasons. I prefer to keep them all secret until the deadline has passed.
I'll edit a confirmed entry list in this thread when I receive them. So you won't be in the dark about whether or not I've received your entry.
DEADLINE:The deadline for this contest will be
Saturday, February 13th, 2010 by Midnight CST EXTENDED TO Saturday, February 20th, 2010 by 5PM CST.
PRIZES:I think you guys like having the option of picking your prize, so the
grand prize winners of each category will be able to choose the prize of their choice, at $40 USD or less.
Haven't been able to get the Megaman or X OCW? You can choose one of them. Cross your fingers Megaman Megamix really comes out on Feb. 13, and it'd be the perfect prize. Wanna wait a month for Megaman 10? I'll buy it for ya. Got something else in mind you've wanted to get from eBay, but haven't had the cash? I'll do what I can. As long as it's under $40 total, it's game.
The
second place winners of each category will come away with a special Battlechip package. This prize will consist of a few things:
First, an unopened
Progress Battlechip Gate, which also comes with a
Forte Giga Chip and Chip Case.
Second, two Progress Navi Datas:
-
#842 Rockman and #846 Searchman for
Category 1 (Talent).
-
#849 Blues and #857 Knightman for
Category 2 (Humor).
Third, a nice
big 45 Link Battlechip selection featuring: #001 Cannon, #003 Mega Cannon, #005 Vulcan 1, #008 Super Vulcan, #012 SenshaHou 1, #013 SenshaHou 2, #014 SenshaHou 3, #023 Wide Shot, #028 Bubble Star 2, #030 Thunder Ball, #033 Doll Thunder 3, #047 Elec Dragon, #051 Drill Arm, #056 MegaEnergyBomb, #057 Flash Bomb 1, #058 Flash Bomb 2, #069 Ice Seed, #070 Poison Seed, #078 Elec Sword, #083 Neo Variable, #089 Crack Shoot, #095 Aura Head 1, #097 Aura Head 3, #113 Killer Sensor 1, #115 Killer Sensor 3, #139 Ryuusei Gun, #140 Justice One, #151 Guardian, #156 Recovery 50, #168 Holy Panel, #172 Slow Gauge, #177 Invisible, #183 Magnet Coil, #187 Kawairimi, #189 Anti-Recovery, #196 Double Point, #199 Blizzard Ball, #224 Blues, #226 Blues SP, #233 SlashMan, #236 KillerMan, #239 ChargeMan, #245 TomahawkMan, #257 BlastMan, and #269 ElementMan (Yellow Battlechip Stadium version).
It's a starter set worthy of the grand prize (and probably way more expensive on the open market), yet for the runner ups.
The
third place winners will receive two of Mattel's rare Series 3 2" Figures:
-
Megaman and SparkMan for
Category 1 (Talent)-
Bass and Grave VirusBeast for
Category 2 (Humor)Unfortunately the chips were removed from Grave BeastVirus and SparkMan, but the figures are still attached to the card. Bass and Megaman have their chips.
The third place winners will also get (1) of their choice of
Link Navi Data chip from the following:
- TomahawkMan, ChargeMan, TenguMan, DustMan, AquaMan, or GroundMan.
Finally, they will also get a random selection of 22 additional Link battlechips. What chips they are will be a mystery! But I can guarantee there will at least be two Mega Class chips in there.
MISCELLANEOUS INFO:- As usual, If you don't plan to enter, but would like to help me judge, please let me know through PM or mention so in this thread. Thanks to all my usual judges, and I’ll gladly let you help with it again if you’re willing.
So, if you have any questions, feel free to let me know. I hope to see plenty of new participants and familiar faces this year, so good luck to everyone who enters!
CURRENT JUDGE PANEL:Rock Miyabi, Dr. Wily II, Yllisos Zanon, Blackhook, Vixy, ????
CONFIRMED ENTRY LIST:- Akira (talent)
- BassDS (talent)
- borockman (talent)
- hj (humor)
- kim phan (humor)
- linkfreak131 (talent)
- Press Start (humor)
- Rad Lionheart (humor)
- Repliroid20XX (humor)
- The Great Gonzo (humor)