アルグレン・マリ (09月15日, 2:53)
Requirements for all submissions:
1. The final Kao-coin image.
2. The kao-coin suggested name (in English and Japanese).
3. At least two sequential workflow proofs (of any planning/development/progress stages) that logically, clearly, and directly align with the final submitted image.
4. A short description of the materials, tools, techniques, and references used for the work.
5. An agreement stating that no part of the work (from idea generation to editing to formatting, etc.) was done with the use of Al, and which could be a checkbox to be marked before sending in each submission (so as to nix any possibility of alleging ignorance on the matter).
Additional requirements only for entries selected by Michael as potential finalists/winners (in order to reduce the task of having to do this for every submission), especially if flagged through the "Report Content” link:
6. Any number of additional sequential workflow proofs like those provided in requirement 3.
7. Visual proof of a random sampling (chosen at Michael's discretion) of the materials, tools, techniques, and/or references used to create the work as described in requirement 4.
8. A high-resolution (illustration or photo) file in a lossless format such as TIFF, PNG, or uncompressed JPEG.
9. The original work files (layered illustration or unedited photo) with complete metadata—for automatic elimination of any entries with conflicting, lacking or incomplete information—to compare with requirement 8.
All participants can prepare requirements 6–9 in advance in case they are selected as potential finalists/winners to avoid not being able to meet these requirements if asked to do so.
I feel like that's all a bit overkill and would just discourage a lot of genuine artists from participating at all. This isn't a final exam for an art class. Honestly I feel like requirement #9 would be sufficient enough as proof for a finalist, even a combination of 8 and 9 would be good.
