animation by Will Sweeney

Serious play represents a feature of any otaku's activity. Basically you play, but you do it with the greatest dedication, seriousness and interest. We don't want to be the prisoners of the industries that bet on our ability as playful mammals, but we desire to know them and explore their limits. Otaku PLAY explores the universe of players and play of all kinds. How and when you play. What you learn while playing and where do you risk arriving when you remain blocked within the same play.

OBS: This issue is also opened to the audio/video artists, who are invited t submit: AMVs, animations, short movies, experimental movies, motion graphics, VJ-ing focused on the theme presented above.

DEADLINE: September 6, 2008

ILLUSTRATION AND COMICS

Dimensions: 150x220mm-5mm (bleed)
Formats: TIF, PNG, PSD, JPG, PDF
Systems: CMYK and/or GRAYSCALE
Resolution: 300 DPI
Maximum number of illustrations accepted: 2
Maximum number accepted of pages for comics (only grayscale): 16

AUDIO-VIDEO PRODUCTIONS

Format: 720x576 avi or quicktime format, dv-pal compression and sound of 48kHz
Maximum duration accepted (amv, animation, experimental movie, motion graphics, VJ-ing): 3:30 min
Maximum duration accepted (documentary): 15 min
Maximum number of video productions accepted: 2
IMPORTANT ! Subbed AMVs are not allowed and therefore they will be excluded from selection.

AUDIO PRODUCTIONS

Format: mp3
Audio quality: 192 kbps, 48 kHz
Maximum duration accepted: 6 min
Maximum number of audio productions accepted: 2

Please contact us for further details and for the submission of materials.

CONTRIBUTE TO OTAKU MAGAZIN IV - KAIDAN  ISSUE

THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED, TO DECEMBER  15 

KAIDAN is the term used for the Japanese ghost stories, and, extensively, for the
J-Horror culture. The Buddhist moralizing stories were rapidly transformed into international shockers; people wanted more frightening monstrosities and oddness, with no direct connection with the Western horror.

Manga, anime, movies and the subcultures developed around them competed in shicks and panic. If you really want to know why on the Japanese horror movies is written 18+, take a look at the next issue of Otaku Magazine. Nevertheless, is our duty to warn you that all who looked inside certain pages of this issue have disappeared shortly after. Still, it might be just a story to send the children to sleep for good.

SEND US YOUR WORKS:

All your contributions should be in: 140x210mm+5mm (bleed).

FORMAT CAN BE:
TIF, PNG, PSD, JPG, PDF sistem CMYK or/and GRAYSCALE //

REZOLUTION:
300 DPI

Send your works/articles preview via e-mail to: otakuentatgmaildotcom.

THANK YOU!

Otaku Magazine is a quarterly independent platform that promote the visual art, from national and international artists, an opportunity for them to manifest in various areas (graphic, comic strips, illustration, painting, design, fashion, video, toys and accessories), under the influences  of the Japanese entertainment (manga, anime, music, movie, new media, new technologies, etc.) and other artistic currents.

The Otaku Magazine project has become reality because of the need of an alternative to the today Romanian environment, like an answer to the growing interest of the young people to cultural diversity and experimentation and the need to express, without any restraints, their own visions and/or works.

Otaku Magazine is put together by a team of specialized people, in various domains (project coordinators, designers, DTP graphic specialists, web developers, editors, translators, artists, independent curators, distributors, promoters…). Everything is made out of passion and out of the desire to promote and sustain the cultural diversity in Romania.