Digimon Illustration Competition 2023 Announced, More Regions This Time

[MarcFBR]

The Digimon Illustration Competition 2023 has begun!

The description this time:

Since 1997, numerous products and content have been developed including toys, games, and anime featuring Digimon, winning the support of fans around the world.

In 2022, the first Digimon Illustration Competition was held targeting both Japan and the US. The number of application exceeded our expectation, making it a popular event.

For the second competition, Digimon Illustration Competition 2023, Canada, mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and a part of Europe have been added to the areas from which submissions will be accepted.

This time, under the theme "Unique or characteristic scenes from Digimon," we would like to ask everyone to create illustrations of Digimon characters full of the attractiveness and appeal that applicants think they have, and through the illustration, convey the fascination of Digimon to as many people as possible.

The works selected for the Grand Prize and Second Prize will be used as card designs for the Digimon Card Game. We very much look forward to your submissions.

It runs November 1st through January 16th.

Eligible regions- Japan, US, Canada,Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Spain (including states)
Must communicate in Japanese, English, or Chinese



The overall rules can be found here. An FAQ can be found here.
3 entries per person max
jpg/png
1450x2000
max size- 10 megs

For digital drawings, please have separate layers.




The prizes (equivalent amount)...
Grand Prize (1)- 300,00 yen and art made into a card
Second Prize (7)- 100,000 yen each and art made into a card
Judges Prize (a few)- 50,000 yen


For those who enter, a few important dates...
1st screening- Mid-February 2023
Final Announcement- March 31st




The theme this time...
Illustrations that express the "Scene of Digimon’s Unique Personality or Characteristics"that conveys the appeal of the Digimon to be entered and the appeal of the Digimon worldview.


The character list this time...
Agumon
V-mon
TeslaJellymon
SymbareAngoramon
Sukamon
LadyDevimon
WarGreymon
Imperialdramon Dragon Mode

Various angle and wraparound arts are shown on the page to help you. It also links to card art samples.







The criteria for judging...
Matches the theme
Creativity
Originality
Design quality


The judges are...
Kenji Watanabe (Digimon Designer)
Masahi Harada (Digimon Project Leader)
Shinsuke Kojima (Card General Manager)
Hiromi Seki (Digimon producer and planner)

Members of Ghost Game staff



The application form with more detail can be found here.



Nice to see it coming again, we'll update and clean up a few things later, but time to get started artists...

 

[Muur]

Sucks you can't draw anyone you want.

Glad more countries are allowed in this time.

 

[Mr_Web]

One more year and I'll legally be old enough to submit. My art skills aren't enough to win but I sure as hell would submit artwork. I'm excited to see the winners, though knowing digimon fans, I'm feel like I know a Sukamon card won't be the winner. Either not enough people will draw them or those who draw more popular digimon like literally every single other one in the list.

Like come on. Give that poor digimon a chance.

 

[Soft]

I can't believe my country is included in the list

but also Symbare Angoramon my favourite digimon of all is on the list? BRING IT ON, I'M IN!!!

 

[MillsburyMedia]

I'm definitely participating as well

 

[TheImpster]

Finally I can participate! It's gonna be a great way to test my art skills too

 

[Unknown Neo]

This is going to be fun. I have no talent but hey, it is nice to see who wins these.

 

[Imperial]

I was thinking Duskmon or Raidenmon. But since it's provided I'm thinking WarGreymon or LadyDevimon. Oh what's that? I suck at drawing? Hmmm.

 

[Chisana Minamoto]

I'm sorry that as a Czech I can't attend.

 

[Nightwing]

Good luck to all the participants!