Contribution Invitation for The Seventh “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition

I. Name: The Seventh “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition II. Sponsor: Organizing Committee of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival China National Youth and Children’s Palace Association China Association for Children’s Plastic Arts Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House Hangzhou Municipal People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries III. Undertaker: Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Centre IV. Co-undertaker: Zhejiang Zhongnan Group Animation Video Co., Ltd. V. Participants and Scope Any youth or child under 18 (inclusive) has the right to participate in the competition. Individuals or groups are welcome. VI. Themes 1. Dragon 2. Magic of Love 3. Carton with more than 4 frames (no restriction on theme) VII. Rules: 1. Participants are divided into Middle School Group and Primary School Group. 2. Participating works shall be original, instead of modification, reproduction or copy from others. They shall boast entire copyright. In case of violation, the participation qualification of such works will be cancelled. 3. Each participant is allowed to contribute 1 piece of works. 4. Works for this Competition will be classified into three major categories as hand painted works, computer painted works and flash cartoon. A. Requirements on hand painted works: Hand painted works must be original works. Fly your imagination and novel design is required. The theme shall be positive. Your painting can be in the form of a single page, or a four frame, or comic series, or other creative cartoons. (And both black-and-white works and colorful works are acceptable.) Paper of the works should not be smaller than 20×30cm and or bigger than 55×40cm. No framing is needed. B. Requirements on computer painted works: focus on the themes, colored printing, A4 paper, with related information about the works as well as the creator on the back and send it to the Organizing Committee by mail. C. Requirements on flash cartoon works: focus on the themes, individual works and team works (with all the team members under 18) are both acceptable. Works shall be submitted in SWF format with capacity ≤5M. Source documents and instruction of the works shall also be submitted. Provide related information about the works as well as creator (refer to Point 3 under VII. Rules) in word format in the CD. Make a CD containing the SWF work, source documents and instruction and mail it to the Organizing Committee. 5. Each work will be stuck on the bottom right corner a form including nationality, name, sex, date of birth and group to attend (Middle School Group or Primary School Group), name of school, address, post code, telephone number, instructor, title and brief introduction to works, etc. Visit the official website of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival http://www.cicaf.com and the website of Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Center http://www.hzqsn.com to download the forms of Registration Table of the Participating Works and Statistics Table of Group Participation. 6. No fee is charged for participation. VIII. Awards 1. Top Grade Prize will be awarded to 10 contestants (RMB 1000 each), Gold Prize, Silver Prize, Bronze Prize and Merit Prize will be awarded for 1%, 1.5%, 2.5% and 5% participants of total contribution works respectively. 2. Excellent Organizer Award is also provided to prize units with over 200 pieces of works and teams with highest rate of award-winning. 3. Excellent Instructive Award is given to the teachers of winners of Top Grade Prize and Gold Prize as well as the teachers of the group winning the Origination Award. 4. Excellent works winning prizes will be included in the Collection. Each award winner will be awarded with certificate and one Collection. IX. Work Exhibition Excellent works will be displayed in professional art exhibitions or on the web, and names of all prize winners will be announced the websites (websites of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival and the website of Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Center). Also, some of them will be published in magazines such as Master of Humor. X. Deadline Contribution deadline is set on March 20, 2012 (according to the date of stamp). If they are sent by post office, please protect the works by providing a scaleboard. XI. Agreement No works will be returned back. The authors agree to transfer the publishing right, exhibition right and property right of the works to the Sponsor. All the participants are regarded as to agree with the rules above. XII. Special Instruction Sub-division competition areas are to be set all over the world for this Competition. Areas which meet the basic conditions for establishing a competition area may apply with the Origination Committee to assume the organization and review work within such area. Please contact the Origination Committee for details about establishment of sub-division competition area. XIII. Works Shall be Mailed to Postal Address: Tianyan Cup Cartoon Competition Office, Art Department of Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Center (22 Zhaoqingsili Street, Xihu District, Hangzhou) Post Code: 310007 Addressee: Wang Zhan Chen Chong Jie Telephone: 0086-0571-85821035 86510131 Fax: 0086-0571-85821012

Organizing Committee of the Seventh “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition November 15, 2011