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Winners will be chosen from three categories:

• Individual
• Independent Team
• Commercial (Team or Individual)


Individual and Independent Team categories are for entrants creating original material that is not in commercial production.

Material based on current production or production that has been released in the past 12 months, must be entered in the Commercial category.

Contestants are obliged to nominate their category when submitting entries at Stage One.


Teams must nominate a lead contact. This is the person who will manage all communications between their team and the competition organizers. If successful, the team may nominate another individual to accept awards or may nominate several members to be present at the awards. Costs for travel, accommodation, and conference admission for additional attendees will be covered by the contestant teams.

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Anyone registered with CGTalk may enter Graphic Impact - The Pivotal Moment. Membership is free of charge.

Employees of sponsors cannot enter the competition.

Judges, relatives of judges and employees of judges cannot enter the competition.

Contestants may enter multiple entries but cannot submit the same work to multiple categories.

Any entry deemed by the judges to be the same or similar to any other entry previously entered will be disqualified for reasons of copyright liability.

Any entry deemed to contain content that depicts explicit acts that are overtly violent, sexual, cruel or brutal will be disqualified.

No new registrations or Stage One entries will be accepted after 16th January 2006.

Stage Two entries will only be accepted following the provision and acceptance of a Stage One entry.

No late entries will be accepted.

Judges' decisions are deemed to be final and no correspondence will be entered into.

By entering artwork, animation and copy to the competition the entrant warrants that they are the copyright holder, or they have obtained the rights sufficient for the purpose of the competition.

Finalists will be required to obtain all the necessary documentation to allow them leave, and return to, their port of origin and to access the United States of America in March 2006. The competition organizers reserve the right to view copies of this documentation prior to releasing any travel details.

The competitor grants Ballistic Media rights to use all entered materials in sales, marketing and merchandising material associated with the competition.

Ballistic Media agrees to clearly credit the artist if any such artwork is used.

All artists will be contacted for final image approval prior to any of their work being published in hard copy.

No artwork will be used in any media without clear credit being given to the artist.

No artwork will knowingly be sold, in whole or in part, by any of the sponsors without entrants' permission.

The entrant indemnifies Ballistic Media against any claims or indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages from any party that may arise from publication of entry materials submitted as a part of the competition.

Ballistic Media will not return any material submitted. At the written request of the entrant, Ballistic Media will destroy copies of submitted material and any backups or reproductions.

There is no agreement or contract between the artist and the 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.

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.

If you do not agree with any of the above terms and conditions, please do not enter the Graphic Impact Competition.