aughhh i'm so awful with graphic design. no way i'd win and honestly, $500 when they make profit on my art is... not...
i...
eurgh.
i really don't feel comfortable with the idea of "you can make profit off my stuff" and i have a feeling that in the small print on that, they probably say they hold rights to the art even post-contest and are allowed to use it whenever they want (even if you don't win anything).
winning $10k would be so maddeningly nice rn, need it for surgeries i can't afford, but if you don't win and there's no guarantee they won't pull a "we hold rights blah blah we have the right to use content however we please" then it just seems like a massive scam (except for the, what? 3? 5? 12? people who win/are runner ups). there's a reason most artists have in commission contracts 'NOT allowed to use commissions for COMMERCIAL profit'.
raises a lot of red flags. ugh.
yikes, actually looking into it gets worse.
> Contest participants must cover the cost of producing their designs on their own.
not sure if they mean they're not paying for materials, or if they mean cost of site listing or what. seems really vague.
> UNIQLO Co Ltd will retain all rights of the artwork (designs) submitted to the contest. *All rights to Pokémon are managed by the Pokémon Company.
THAT RED FLAG THO
> Use Adobe Illustrator 10.0 and Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (older versions of these software packages are also acceptable).
they've said about a dozen times they can alter the designs how they see fit.
they expect to get layer copies.
this whole thing reeks to me of artist scam and fishing for free profit. keep in mind they are demanding photoshop docs... that is, copyright is a pretty flimsy law in accordance with artists and their art as-is, and with enough edits, companies can (and have, hot topic is actually really notorious for this) get away with reselling someone's (stolen, highly edited) work.
freaks me out way too much. artists who work for commercial products usually demand a really high price if not a cut of royalties. ie, for every 100 pieces sold x% of profit.
(and i normally post my stuff to anon image boards and whatnot for free with no watermark, i don't really care but this is really obvious what could happen here)
i'll pass.
as for the 2DS, i might do that, but that uniqlo one reeks of the kind of thing that tumblr and deviantart users would normally start spreading PSAs about avoiding being scammed. no joke. it's setting off all the alarms.
> Yes. We accept applications regardless of the applicants' age, gender, nationality, etc.
pretty sure this is illegal.
pretty sure there are laws that state one has to be 13...? to enter a contest involving cash like this, or have parental signatures and stuff. i could be wrong, but this seems to clash with the digital millennium protection act and some other laws. like i said, i could be wrong but...
i mean, it seems legit otherwise but mmmm.
i'll pass.
