http://www.reallusion.com/event/11-crazytalkcontest/default.html

Summer is here and so is the Reallusion Filmmaking Competition, but this time around we have the new and amazing CrazyTalk Animator to play with. CrazyTalk Animator is a revolutionary animation engine which allows you animate anything! Create actors from photographs or illustrations, and bring them to life with automatic facial & body fitting editors.

Bring out your toys, puppets, fruits, vegetables or anything you like; snap on a pair of eyes & limbs, and start animating your way to stardom. Create a funny, educational or viral video and get instantly noticed while winning great prizes like iPad2, XBox 360 and others from our branded sponsors!

Using a drawing instead of a photo will be fine. The important criteria is that the subject character should be an everyday item such as foodstuff, toys, household items etc.

You make a fair point. Maybe we should have said common everyday objects, or everyday objects that we all use. As you rightly say if a Doctor submits an entry with a stethoscope as his main character we could not really disqualify him on that basis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B49DxftosAY

I see another video in this thread that has had the same issue. My daughter and I want to do a music video as well, but if our Youtube accounts are going to be suspended due to copyright violations and our entries deleted then what's the point?

How is this going to be resolved?

As far as submissions go, Reallusion would get no flack from anyone for allowing it because it isn't them personally violating copyright during the submission process. However, I don't see how they can turn around and use winning entries for promotional purposes. We are talking about copyright law here and I don't believe this sort of contest is exempt from the law.

Here is the info on the Music Video type entry:

Music Video
Dust off your records and polish your directing skills, by creating your very own Music Video entry with song and dance.

The phrase "Dust off your records" clearly promotes breaking out your commercial record/CD collection and using that for your entry. Plus, it doesn't say anywhere in the rules that you can't use copyrighted music. That's a pretty standard clause in all contests I've ever entered.

Also, it states the following:

Submitted videos may incorporate footage from other video games or commercial clips for a media mash-up...

That encourages the use of copyrighted material as well.

I'm not trying to make trouble, just trying to protect myself and to be sure of the rules. It's a great contest and I want to enter.

I am wondering the same thing.  Its coming up on 11 days now and my entree hasnt shown up.  Being that there is a popularity portion of the vote here it seems as if entrees should be posted in a reasonable fashion to ensure fairness and such.  Im assuming I didnt make any mistakes in submitting it...

I subscribed my video for the contest 6 days ago, but it is not on the contest page - and the german contest ends this month.

Please tell me, what can I do?

Thanks a lot for your help and many greetings

Ulli

Ulli

I find it absolutely unfair how you deal with this contest. You post the link to some contestant videos on your Reallusion-Facebook-site and in the E-Mail-Newsletter I received today. And you hype up for some videos on the Real-Time-2D-Live-Channel. But some - me included - you don't mention. For this contest it's important how many clicks the video reaches. This is an important criterion, it counts. Yes, I feel overlooked and cheated. Long time I was quite and just observed it. But as I received the Newsletter today with "the German contestant videos" (where I was not mentioned!), where one can start the videos directly from the E-Mail, I had to say it out. I'm not a person who claims all the time and loud - but now I can't understand the world.

Luna

Concerning my postig above; today Reallusion has inserted on Facebook a link to my video on Youtube, too. Thanks for this honourable reaction! Now I don't feel so excluded.

Greetings

Luna

Is the interpretation of everday objects mean that it must be some object that we take our own personal photo of and then convert (I was initially assuming)?  For example, I think the Toyformers video is cool, but it only seems to use copyrighted photos for every character in the video.  Are copyrighted photos found on google considered everyday objects?  If this is true, it would significantly change the strategy in the type of submission to be worked on.

It would seem more fair that entries should be required to identify the everyday object included in the video? Maybe the person took pictures of their own Toy Story 3 toys??  Some of the entries do not look like they have any everyday objects in them.
 

thanks for not answering my question.  great service.

Dear Mad Poet,

As for the issue of everyday object, we've made a reply in July under this thread (on page 2). Basically, Reallusion doesn't want to make "everyday object" so specific which might limit the possibilities. The characters in "Toyformers" such as Kenny and Barbie can be viewed as toys. So, it can be viewed as everyday object (Foodstuff, Toy, Stuffed Animal, Puppet, Tableware).

For copyright issue, the reason why Reallusion didn't make any regulation is because that we didn't want to limit contestants' creativity in making animation. However, we'll fighure out how to avoid this kind of issue in future events. Thanks for your concern and advices.

Thanks,

Your Reallusion Staff