AMV Contest Applications are open from April 6th, 2022 to August 10th, 2022 at 11:59:59pm ET.
SUBMISSION FORM: https://www.derpycon.com/amvs/
Categories for the DerpyCon AMV Showcase Contest
- Action/Adventure
- Drama/Serious
- Romance/Sentimental
- Upbeat/Dance
- Comedy/Parody
- Cowabunga Pizza (Action)
- 4Kids4Ever (Comedy)
- Why Not Commercials (Trailers)
- Entries will be accepted from April 6, 2022 until August 10, 2022.
- Entries into the DerpyCon AMV Showcase may be no shorter than 1 minute and no longer than 6 minutes. Entries into the Saturday Morning Cartoons Contest may be no shorter than 30 seconds and no longer than 5 minutes.
- Entries must be family-friendly (appropriate for a PG-13 audience).
- For the DerpyCon AMV Showcase Contest: At-least 75% of each entry’s video content must consist of anime, manga, or video game derived content. None of the video content can be from live-action; entries with live-action will be rejected. At-least 75% of each entry’s audio content must be music. None of the audio content can be from the original source material or dub.
- For the Saturday Morning Cartoons Contest: At-least 75% of each entry’s video content must consist of anime or american cartoon derived content. None of the video content can be from live-action; entries with live-action will be rejected. At-least 75% of each entry’s audio content must be music (this rule does not apply to entries submitted into the “Why Not Commercials”). None of the audio content can be from the original source material or dub.
- Attendance as DerpyCon 2022 is not required for contest entry. Attendance at the convention has no effect on the judging process.
- Entries from DerpyCon 2022 Staff and Volunteers are not allowed.
- By submitting an entry, entrants agree that: they have read, understand, and will comply with all official rules and consent to their AMV, name, and information used for the purposes of promotion of the DerpyCon 2022 AMV Contest.
- By submitting an entry, entrants grant DerpyCon the rights to show the entry at DerpyCon 2022 and all future DerpyCon events.
- Entries shall not contain any watermarks, credits, bumpers, or information that is not directly related to the video content. Parody watermarks, bumpers, and corner info are allowed in entries submitted into the “Why Not Commercials” category only in the Saturday Morning Cartoons Contest.
- Entries shall not contain subtitles that have not been created and added by the editor.
- Entries shall be MP4 encoded with x264/h264 codec.
- Entries should be in 1080p resolution and 29.97 fps format, if possible. All entrants will be scaled to this resolution.
- Leave 3 seconds of black space both before and after the entry.
- Do not include a title screen, or lead in/out bumpers; video information and credits will be added by DerpyCon.
- All video editing and concepts must have been made/designed/added by the entrant.
- Each entrant is allowed to submit up to one (1) submission per category and up to three (3) submissions in total for the competition. Entries from multi-editor collaborations are allowed but will count as one submission for each member of the collaboration.
- Submissions will only be accepted via our file upload section of the form or via downloadable link (ie Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, etc.). Links to YouTube or similar video service are not allowed.
- DerpyCon reserves the right to disqualify any submission for any of reason, without warning.
- Entries into the Saturday Morning Cartoons Contest are meant to capture the essence of watching Saturday morning cartoons in some fashion. DerpyCon reserves the right to move videos submitted to this Contest to the AMV Showcase Contest if deemed to not fit.
If there are any questions, please feel free to post in this forum. I'll be checking this forum quite frequently (at least once per week, and much more once we get closer to the deadline) and is the easiest way to get feedback and answers. Looking forward to seeing everyone's submissions!
