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Rules
- Challenge rules apply to individual and team entrants jointly and seperately.
- Individual entrants must be registered with CGTalk or CGSociety. Each individual member of a 'Team' must be registered with CGTalk or CGSociety.
- Team entrants must nominate a "Team Leader" who will be responsible for all correspondance with the Challenge Organisers including the allocation of prizes.
- A nominated Team leader cannot be changed without written agreement between the majority of the team members and Ballistic Media Pty. Ltd.
- Team leaders will be responsible for the distribution of prizes to other team members.
- Employees and relatives of Ballistic Media staff, sponsors and judges cannot compete in the challenge.
- Individuals may not participate in more than one team.
- Ballistic Media will take no responsibility for, or become involved in, disputes between team members and reserves the right to disqualify teams with members who cannot cooperate with each other.
- Contestants can enter the three categories simultaneously, but cannot enter work with the same concept/subject matter in more than one category. Each must be a distinctly different piece.
- Entries must be original and must remain unpublished in print outside of Ballistic Media prior to the close of the challenge. Any entry deemed by the judges to be the same or similar to any other entry previously entered will be disqualified as a derivate work.
- Images must conform to nominal decency guidelines. Any image deemed to contain content that depicts violence, racial, political, religious, sexual or any other inflammatory material in an inappropriate manner will be disqualified and removed. Interpretation of what is and is not appropriate material is the sole discretion of Ballistic Media and/or its appointed agents.
- Live action footage is permitted in the trailer category. Entrants must obtain and submit a written release from any person appearing in the footage who is recognizable (i.e. their face appears).
- No late entries will be accepted.
- Ballistic Media will not be held responsible for late entries.
- Judges' decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- To be eligible for prizes, all winning entrants must provide detailed “making of” articles.
- Any import taxes or duties on prizes must be paid by the prize winner.
- By entering artwork, animation and copy to the competition the entrant warrants that they are the sole copyright holder, or they have obtained the rights sufficient for the purpose of the competition.
- Entrants’ works can be offered separately as isolated works of art--print, etc.--or as part of a suite of prints, or posted on artist or society web site(s), saying “inspired by Eon, a novel by Greg Bear”, but cannot appear or imply the works were created or marketed under any ‘EON’ or ‘Greg Bear’ imprimatur. Works so inspired cannot be marketed as the reason, inspiration for, or initiation of another film, storyboard or graphic sequence or any other work of any kind. Any use of these works beyond those anticipated in this contract must be with the express and written permission of Greg Bear.
- The entrant grants Ballistic Media and competition sponsors rights to use all entered materials in any media for sales, marketing and merchandising material provided full and correct credit for the artist clearly appears with said materials.
- The winners grant Ballistic Media first right to publish their submitted work in any media.
- Entrants commit to notify Ballistic Media in writing at least one week prior to the publication of their work in any media.
- Other than the rights assigned in the preceding clauses entrants retain copyright of all entered materials and are free to use said materials for personal promotions.
- The entrant indemnifies Ballistic Media against any claims or indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages from any party that may arise from any use, including but not limited to, publication of entry materials submitted as a part of, or in association with the competition.
- Ballistic Media will not return any material submitted.
- There is no agreement or contract between the artist and Ballistic Media. The artist assumes all responsibility and costs for delivering images and other required information to the Publisher for consideration in the competition.
- Ballistic Media does not require any payment for entry of images nor does Ballistic Media offer any form of payment, actual or implied, to any entrants.
- Ballistic Media will take reasonable measures to ensure the security of entries and information supplied to them. In no event shall Ballistic Media be liable to any party, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the loss of images and data supplied, even if Ballistic Media has been advised of the possibility of such loss and damages.
- Ballistic Media reserves the right to change or modify these rules.
- Ballistic Media reserves the right to suspend, shorten, modify or cancel the challenge in the case of Force Majeure or in circumstances beyond the company's control.
- At least 10 completed entries must be submitted to any one category for the category to be considered viable and be judged.
- This list of terms and conditions constitutes the complete and exclusive statement of the terms and conditions and supersedes any prior terms and conditions, oral or written, and any other communications relating to these terms and conditions.
FTP
Final submission of print-resolution artwork is to be done using FTP. If you are not familiar with FTP and how to use it, you should seek help on its use well prior to the close of the challenge - late submissions due to inexperience with FTP will not be accepted.
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