Welcome to Graphite
Date: 09/01/09
Greetings!
We will be returning the remaining artwork from Graphite 2008 at our booth
at SOYA 2009. If you have not collected your artwork pieces and wish to do
so, you may proceed to our booth at SOYA to collect them from us.
Here are the details for SOYA 2009
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Japanese Tsubasa Club
Start of Year Again 2009
Date: 31st January 2009 Saturday
Time: 11am-6pm
Venue: Ngee Ann Polytechnic LT26 and Area
We hope to see you there!
Date: 18/11/08
New judge details has been added to the panel.
We sincerely apologize for not updating the judges
details earlier, but it is now done. It is our honour to introduce our 5th
Judge in the panel, Mr. Chub Tan, creator of the TKG Comic Circle. You may
check his profile out at the
Judges Page.
Incidentally, Chub is giving away 100 copies of his
comic books for autograph at AFA08! On the 23rd November 2008, TKGCC will be
gracing AFA08 and will be exchanging exclusive comic books for any 10cm by
10cm artwork of a Pig Character created by Chub! All work must be original
and from you!
Here are more details of the autograph session.
Chub Tan & TKG Comic Circle
November 23, 1100am - 1200nn
Anime Festival Asia 2008
Here is an example of a sketch you will need to be
doing on a 10cm by 10cm canvas to get the free comic book on the day itself,
first come first served and whilst stocks last.
Please visit www.tkgcc.com for more information!
See you at AFA08!
Date: 16/11/08
Results Are Out!!
Here is the moment you have been waiting for. Graphite 2008 results are out! We wish to thank and congratulate all who have taken part in this wonderful event. The following are the names of the winners for each category. As prize-giving and interview will be conducted on AFA itself, all winners please check your e-mail soon for coming announcements and confirmation of attendance!
Secondary
2nd Prize: Pearlyn Tan
3rd Prize: Clarisse Chua
Hon Mentions: Ashley Tan, Grace Song
Winners of the Second Prize in the Secondary category stand to receive $350 worth of items including cash, artbooks and goodies. Third Prize and Honourable Mentions Winners stand to receive $250 and $150 worth of items respectively.
Open Traditional
2nd Prize: Winnie Sugieanto
3rd Prize: Oh Chiu Hsia Phoebe, Lum En-Ci
Hon Mentions: Pang Tiak Hui, Co Sarajane, Tiffany Junadi
Winners of the Second Prize in the Open Traditional category stand to receive $400 worth of items including cash, artbooks and goodies. Third Prize and Honourable Mentions Winners stand to receive $300 and $200 worth of items respectively.
Open Digital
2nd Prize: Juliana Chan
3rd Prize: Victoria Moey, Jeramiah Boon
Hon Mentions: Kee Wan Ling, Jamie Huang, Kimberly Chan
Winners of the Second Prize in the Open Digital category stand to receive $400 worth of items including cash, artbooks and goodies. Third Prize and Honourable Mentions Winners stand to receive $300 and $200 worth of items respectively.
Manga
1st Prize: Jacqueline Chow
2nd Prize: He Xuan
3rd Prize: Lesley Tong, Ow Wei Yi
Hon Mentions: Pauline Petrina Tan, Vanessa Hui Kar Yan, Ashley Seet Shi Ying
The Top Prize Winner of the Manga Category stands to receive $580 worth of prizes including a Manga Drawing Software Sponsored by The Tab. Winners of the Second and Third Prize in the Manga Category stand to receive $480 and $380 worth of prizes including the Manga Drawing Software. Honourable Mentions Winners stand to receive $250 worth of items including artbooks and goodies.
Besides the winners for each category, everyone who participated in Graphite 2008 by submitting his or her artwork will stand to receive laptop bags from us.
All artists who have submitted their work may also claim their work from us from our booth at Anime Festival Asia 2008.
Our Gallery on Deviantart will also be updated with pieces from this year's Graphite, and all participants are encouraged to check us out at http://graphite2008.deviantart.com/ or simply select Gallery at the top of the page. You are also invited to visit us at our booth on AFA.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email them to graphite@nusanime.com.
All prizes are proudly sponsored by Digital Video S.p.A, Animax, PageOne, Imaginary Friends Studios and GameAxis, and Graphite 2008 is jointly organized by NUS Comics and Animation Society and Anime Festival Asia 2008.
We thank each and everyone of you for making Graphite 2008 a success, and we hope to be receiving your wonderful work once again in Graphite 2009. See you again next year!
Date: 29/09/08
Graphite 2008 has officially ended.
Thank you very much to all who participated in Graphite 2008 and do look forward to the results later this year! Should you require further clarifications, please contact us at graphite@nusanime.com.
Date: 22/09/08
Notice to all participants!
You may submit your entries on 27th and 28th September 2008 (this coming Saturday and Sunday) from 10am-6pm at Manga Kissa. Remember to include the necessary paperwork along with your submissions.
For participants of the Digital categories, you may choose to burn all the required submission stuff onto a CD and submit to us too.
The address of the venue is as follows:
Manga Kissa
40 Prinsep Street #1
S188666
Tel: 6337 1747
In other news, due to a lack of participants in the Team Manga category, the category has therefore been cancelled. The Team Manga and Individual Manga categories will be merged into a single Manga category.
Participants are highly encouraged to download the newly updated rules:
Rules: Character Design
Rules: Manga
If you have any further enquiries, do post them on our Forum and we will reply promptly.
Date: 21/08/08
Hi all. We have been receiving feedback from both our sponsors and participants that the current time limit is still not long enough. As such, after serious consideration, we have decided to extend the submission deadline to 28 Sep 08. We apologize for any inconvenience cause. Should you require further clarifications, do email us or post your questions on the Forum.
Date: 17/08/08
The newly edited rules have been uploaded. Do download them to update yourselves.
Rules: Character Design
Rules: Manga
Date: 01/08/08
We apologise for not updating in such a long while because we were negotiating the entry of certain partners and sponsors.
Firstly, we're proud to announce that Imaginary Friends Studios(IFS) is now a sponsor of Graphite. In addition to the provision of prizes, they have kindly agreed to be part of the judging panel for Graphite 2008.
The confirmed judges from IFS at the moment are: Stanley, Kai, Kendrick and Jennyson. You can read their bios on the judges page. We have a fifth judge, whom we hope to confirm soon. We will also upload his biodata then.
We'll also like to take this opportunity to announce that Collateral Damage Studios (CDS) is now an official supporter of Graphite 2008. Do visit their website for more details!
In addition, we would also like to announce that we have set up a deviantart gallery! For participants who ready to submit their artworks especially those competing in the digital category, you can email us a high resolution image of your artwork, complete with a zipped file containing all progress of your artwork. The limit for the zipped file for email submissions should not be over 100mb. We will upload the received submissions to the deviantart gallery wherever possible. As for those illustrating their works in the traditional media, should you also want your works to be uploaded on the deviantart gallery, kindly send us a high resolution image of your artwork. As for the actual submission, it must still be done physically. Do take note though, that the uploaded high resolution image for those done in traditional media might be slightly different from the original. Please send your submissions to graphite@nusanime.com. Email us too if you need further clarifications.
More updates will follow as and when we confirm them. Do continue to visit our site regularly for more updates! In the meantime, have a good weekend!
Date: 03/07/08
TIME EXTENSION! Yes. We will be extending the deadline to 6th
September. Please read the "About"
for more information on submission.
Ooopsss...... Apologies to those who registered for the
competition
on 28th June from 6pm to 9pm. We have unfortunately lost your personal
particulars. Can those of you help us by registering again online?
Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
There is a slight modification to the Secondary: Traditional
Character Design. As many participants have requested for digital
medium to be allowed, the category will now be called Secondary:
Character Design and both traditional or digital medium can be used.
Note that participants using digital medium need to submit a CD
containing records of their work progress as a proof of not
plagiarising.
Click here for
more details.
Thank you everyone who signed up for the competition during
STCC. I
hope those who received our limited edition postcards are happy with
our designs. This coming weekend, we will be having another booth(No.
19) at CosFest at Downtown East. In view of the good response during
STCC, our club will give away another small gift* for people who sign
up online from 30th June till 6th July or sign up at our booth during
CosFest.
*while stocks last
Click here to register
for Graphite.
Good news to all. We will be giving out 1 set of
limited-edition
Graphite postcards* for people who have already signed up for the
competition online. Simply come to the booth that we share with NUS
Comics Corner (F07) at Singapore Toy and Comic Convention (STCC),
and present your IC to our committee people there and you will received
your postcards*. Alternatively, if you have yet to sign up, you can
also get your postcards* when you sign up at our booth at STCC.
*while stocks last
