The results for “OURSONG SakugaKing Animation Grand Prix”, the NFT contest of animation and music held by the social platform “OURSONG”, has been announced. In addition, the comments to the prize-winning works have arrived from judges of the contest, including the director of the TV anime “Chainsaw Man”.

“OURSONG” is the new NFT platform, where users can create, share, and exchange inspiring and creative assets together with friends and people with similar beliefs and ideas.
Users can immediately change their own content into exchangeable and tradable digital card type NFT called “Vibe”, which is a form of the access key to private social communities and limited contents.
This program “OURSONG SakugaKing Animation Grand Prix” gathered works from August 12 to August 22, 2021, and a total of 250 works have been applied. The 1st place went to “Dream of the sea” by Futata, 2nd place was “AROUND MIDNIGHT” by Surume, 3rd place was “d00” by Pug, Action Award was given to “Dear” by Niboshipokke, Direction Award was “(Un) Ordinary Life” by YLhan, Design Award to “A big cat VS a cat toy” by MATSUMURA, and “Money can’t buy love, but can buy alien’s ‘limb’” by Happy Kawaii Friends.

The organizer reviewed the contest by saying, “Within 10 days of the application period, which seems very short, a total of 250 works were assembled, under the requirement to produce animation and to make it into NFT. I believe this contest left the legacy to advocate NFT as a new creative platform and to expand the field of short animation as art”.
He continued, “The mission of OURSONG is to support creators so that they can earn money from their works being turned into a digital asset. We will continue to do our best to achieve our mission”.

1st Place “Dream of the sea” by Futata

Judge Comment: Nakayama Ryu

Both design and movement are so soft and wonderful! It is fantastically cute! The characters design and silhouettes match nicely with the created world , and I loved it.

Judge Comment: Kojima Keisuke

Each cut is cute. Motion and postures are good. The contrast between inside and outside futon is wonderful to find. This is the work I intuitively liked.

Judge Comment: Kutsuna Kenichi

Both structure and animation are wonderful. The feeling of swimming while sleeping is refreshing.

Judge Comment; Ganko chan

I like how the expression of movement in light, character actions, and lighting create the beautiful feelings of being under water. I have no questions about this beautiful movie.

Judge Comment: gosso

It is so cute!
The refreshing atmosphere of the expanding world and the skillful animation are wonderful.

Judge Comment: Tanaka Michael

This work matches the most with the target of the requirements and the event itself. The unity also appeared the most with the cuteness of the characters.

2nd Place “AROUND MIDNIGHT” by Surume

Judge Comment: Nakayama Ryu

This was the perfect loop animation with various skills being used. I was overwhelmed by this!

Judge Comment: Kutsuna Kenichi
The level of loop animation is high and overwhelming skills have been shown.

Judge Comment; Ganko chan

I like this unique idea. My personal advice is it would be more like a movie if there would be a few more action scenes.

Judge Comment: gosso

I think there was something new in terms of design, so this receives the 1st place for that part! The feeling of the loop decreases in a good way by repeating the space itself.
This is full of high skills. It was made with an attention to all small details, and I understand why the loop method has been used for density.

Judge Comment: Tanaka Michael

Since 3D can be used in this Sakugao competition, therefore, this work was outstanding in terms of movie expression and LOFI. I would give more points if the basic 3D used could be drawn in a more cell-like way.

3rd Place: “d00” by Pug

Judge Comment: Nakayama Ryu

I loved how you matched movies with sounds. All designs, including humans, balls, to liquids, pops up at the perfect timing and LO was cool as well.

Judge Comment: Kojima Keisuke

This one is so good it can be a music video. LO looks better with a landscape. It makes no difference on the smartphones, however, it was cool.

Judge Comment; Ganko chan

I liked how this work contained a loop, MV-like vibes, neatly made designs, and transitions between cuts.
I liked characters as well. This work has the highest number of looping.

Judge Comment: gosso

I liked how you expressed the world you are trying to show!

Judge Comment: Tanaka Michael
It was well summarized as one entire work. Although it has beautiful and attractive colors, it was too long as the work with loops. The scene with a catchy picture would be nice.

Action Award “Dear” by Niboshipokke

Judge Comment: Nakayama Ryu

Although there is no action, I personally want to give the Design Award because the characters design is made so carefully.

Direction Award: “(Un) Ordinary Life” by YLhan

Judge Comment: Kutsuna Kenichi

I think this work still has a lot of possibilities as a movie with text and fictional SNS.

Design Award: “A big cat VS a cat toy” by MATSUMURA

Judge Comment: Ganko chan

I chose this because this work puts animals, building, and plants, which are the totally different life forms, into one genre, “music”.

[Anime! Anime! Biz/taken from animeanime/biz]