hazelchaz

[	Current Location	|	Santa Ana CA, USA	]
[	Current Mood	|	chipper	]

Who wants to design a postcard for Animé Los Angeles 5? The prize is a pound of See's Chocolates. If you just want to be on our postcard mailing list, send us your name and address through this form.

We're going to cram an entire progress report onto one side of a little postcard. What should we put on the other side? We've got full color printing capability. Bleed, even -- you can have color and stuff going right up to the edge.

Postcard Art Contest Rules

1. Deadline for Fall Postcard:
   (Pacific time) 11:59 pm Tuesday 23 September 2008.

2. Dimensions at 300 dpi: 1125x1725 or 1725x1125 pixels. Display thumbnail size, if you post your designs, should be 225x345 or 345x225 pixels (i.e., 60 dpi).

   Design your art to be 3.75"x5.75" at 300 dpi, and allow for at least 1/8" along the edges where you won't have any text or anything vital to the design. It'll be 3.5"x5.5" once it's trimmed. So, don't have any text or logos within 40 pixels of the edge (1/8") and we should have no trouble trimming it.

3. You can e-mail the high-resolution version to animela2009 at postcardart dot info, or just publish a link to it on your server. Feel free to send it to us early, as we may have some requests for minor changes (putting the double R and double T in Marriott, adding the accent to Animé Los Angeles, that kind of thing).

   Or if you are sending artwork made from traditional media, such as an inked or painted piece, please send them to:
   
   Animé Los Angeles Postcards
   PO Box 17522
   Anaheim CA 92817-7522

4. Prize for the one we use will be a 1-lb. box of See's chocolates, or something else if you're allergic or dieting. If you've used someone else's art in your composition, get their permission -- you'll be splitting the prize with them.

5. By contributing art to the postcard contest, you are granting the convention permission to use it for promotional purposes for no more than one year. Your art remains your property, you're just loaning it to us.

6. Don't use trademarked characters. People dressed up as recognizable characters are acceptable. You may include Animé Angeles's mascot Ala, and fan art of our artist goh's characters is usually allowed. Of course, your own original characters are welcome as well.

7. You may enter as many times as you like.

8. Please sign your art.

9. If you would like to be put on our mailing list, send us a note. Your info will be kept on a computer in California, and will only be used to send you Animé Los Angeles postcards.

Questions and Clarifications

*raises hand* Just a note regarding the postcards and stuff - are these actually being mailed out? Because I wouldn't want to put anyone through the expense of mailing stuff out to Australia &D Would there be scanned, online versions, or could I have my postcards set aside and I'll pick them up at the convention, or can I nominate a friend of mine in the US that they can be sent to? (It's okay, she's going as well!) (2007-09-20 05:38, ryttu3k)

I can afford a couple of 94-cent stamps to send a few postcards down under. And if you're coming to the convention you're entitled to them to be mailed to you. If you insist, though, I can mark them "do not mail" or "mail c/o so-and-so." Digital images will be posted.

Can you posts some samples of what has won before? (2007-09-20 06:01, digitalemerald)

Here you go.

Is the contest open to Quebec residents? (2007-09-25 15:59, Romanadvoratrelundar)

Yes, it's open to everyone on the planet. We'll happily ship. Even to Quebec. See's has a number of different assortments. There's the Assorted Chocolates, the Milk Chocolates, the Soft Centers, the Nuts and Chews, the Chocolate and Variety... For one contest (different convention) the recipient asked for See's peanut brittle, in fact. If you have a See's shop near you, we can just send you a gift certificate and you can go and pick exactly which ones you want. All Bordeaux and Chocolate Cream? Easily done.

hazelchaz

[	Current Location	|	Santa Ana CA, USA	]
[	Current Mood	|	chipper	]
[	Current Music	|	Rheinhallt H. Rowlands - "Gwawr Newydd Yn Cilio (New Dawn Fades)"	]

I've mentioned that Animé Los Angeles was a success. Our cap was 2400, and we bumped into that Saturday night, and turned a handful of people away. (Arguably we should have had a lower cap, given that the masquerade simulcast didn't work as well we'd like.) Anyhow some people came back on Sunday, so our final membership was 2509. For those who're interested, this was our 4th year; our previous numbers were 616, 1346, and 1875. We're still growing. We had lots of members from out of state, both pre-registered and at-the-door, including: Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virgina, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming; from Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario; and one from England.

How does animelosangeles compare to the other California anime conventions? Well, it turns out there are seven of them that reported their attendance to anime-cons.com in the last two years.

Most recent numbers available:

1. Animation On Display (Aug. 2007, 782)
2. Mikomicon (Oct. 2006, 950)
3. Sac-Anime (July 2006, 2000)
4. Animé Los Angeles (Jan. 2008, 2509)
5. FanimeCon (May 2007, 12000)
6. Anime Expo (July 2007, 44000)
7. Comic-Con San Diego (July 2007, 125000)

We are the median-sized convention! We're right smack in the middle: Animé Los Angeles is the 4th smallest, and also the 4th largest. (I've got a hunch that if I say median-sized people will hear what they're expecting, medium-sized.) We can also say that we're the second-smallest anime convention in Southern California, according to anime-cons.com.