EirtaKon 2010 Ireland's largest anime convention

Eirtakon 09 is pleased to announce our second annual Anime Music Video (AMV) Competition! Last years competition was a huge success with many high quality entrants so this years competition should be a treat to behold.

The competition this year will include five categories, expanded from last years three. These are

• Action
• Comedy
• Romance
• Drama
• Character Profile

To enter all participants will have to prepare their video and submit it before the convention as we will not have time over the weekend to judge all the entries. The three finalists for each category will be contacted before the con and their videos will be shown at the con on Sunday before the winners are announced at the closing ceremony. To enter you have to upload the video to some web space, a free hosting site or a video streaming site that allows downloads without registration. No Youtube links.

This is because the videos will be judged on video and sound quality so we need to see the original full quality version. The full list of criteria on which the videos will be judged are

• Video and Sound quality
• Originality
• Entertainment Value
• Editing
• Effort
• Sync to music

The entry must also conform to these rules and standards

• The file must be smaller than 100mb
• The video must be under 5 minutes
• It must be original work
• No graphic sexual content
• All content must be animated, Hand draw, Cell, CG etc.
• Video game cut scenes are allowed as long as they are anime themed or styled
• The following file types are allowed, avi, divx, wmv, mpg, mkv or mp4
• The following codecs are recommended, Xvid, Divx, H264 or WMV9
• Only one entry per category, although you may enter as many categories as you like.
• Entry's must be submitted by October 31st 2009

To enter please submit the following information

• Your real name
• Your age
• Which category you wish to enter
• The title or the anime or animes used
• The titles and artist of the music used
• A link to the file

Any entry that does not conform to these rule will not be accepted. Any entrant found to have use part of or the entirety of another persons video will be disqualified and banned from future competitions.

You can submit your entry either my posting on the AMV competition thread in the Eirtakon section of the Eirtaku.ie forum or by emailing AMV-Submissions@Eirtakon.com. If you need somewhere to host your video we recommend Megaupload.com or Animemusicvideos.org