AMV Contest

The RULES

Submissions: Each entrant is allowed TWO submissions.  Depending on the contest time limit and the number of submissions before the contest, we may select only one AMV to be presented.  Specify the preferred AMV in your submission. Users found creating multiple studios with the intent to circumvent the submission limit will have all of their entries disqualified.

Submission instructions: Entries will be accepted through email including a direct link download link through any file uploading site of your choosing.

  • Do not include studio bumpers or video credits. The AMV contest host will create a custom, uniform title card based on the information that you provided.  Please submit a separate document with you AMV containing the following:
      • Studio name
      • Your name
      • Song name
      • List of Anime
      • The primary (for multiple submissions)

Group projects: If you are submitting a solo project, and also want collaboration credit on someone else’s video, please contact the contest director listed at the bottom.

  • Footage: Entry must be primarily anime and/or video game footage. The exception to this rule is a live-action adaptation of an anime, intended for television broadcast or release to movie theaters. Such live-action adaptations will be accepted without penalty.
  • Subs: Your entry should not contain subtitles (under judge penalty), whether they are from a fansub or from a commercial release. Subtitles that you have added on your own are completely acceptable
  • Length: Your submission must be at least 2 minutes in length, but no longer than 7 minutes
  • Legal limits: AMV Contest is open to the general public. Thus, submissions with nudity, offensive language, and/or excessive violence may be grounds for a high five.
  • Anti-Trolling Policy: Any AMV that has participated in a past Spring Fest AMV Contest regardless of whether or not it made the finals is not permitted back into the contest. Entries that have participated in other AMV contests are not permitted to enter the Spring Fest 2012 AMV contest, regardless of whether or not said video received an award in the past.
  • Quality: The better quality video that you send us, the better it will look. Remember, the contest is shown on large projection screens, not a small TV. Visual anomalies from poor compression will be enlarged.
  • Exceptions: The Spring Fest 2012 AMV contest will accept submissions from anyone with the exceptions of AMV contest voting staff and AMV contest ballot counters.
  • Grading: Based on originality and style. A video filled with excessive effects has just as much of a chance to win as one without.
  • Categories: N/A

DEADLINE: March 1st 2012.  Late submissions are acceptable under judge’s penalty.  
Note: You must be present for the duration of the AMV contest to qualify for a prize.

SpringFest Judges reserves the right to reject any video that does not adhere to the rules or just because we feel like it.  

Questions? Comments? Contact me!  Matt Bobea: mattbobea@gmail.com