The newsroom is opening a guest desk

The studio will run a challenge inviting creators to cut their own PONSANIME segment out of studio assets and file it as if it went out on our air. What follows is the working draft of the terms. Nothing here is open. No prize pool has been announced, no submission window has opened, and no date has been set.

The draft terms

Subject to change

Theme

Any title in the archive, or the world standing next to it.
The station itself is fair game. The signal, the desk, the people who keep it on air.
Original characters are welcome if the world still reads as ours.
No real people, no real brands, no politics played straight.

Video requirements

Fifteen to ninety seconds, titles included.
16:9 or 9:16. Pick one and stay inside it.
1080p or better, constant frame rate.
Stereo audio, mixed so dialogue survives a phone speaker.
On screen: the PONSANIME logo on the last frame, and your own handle somewhere in the cut.

Assets we will provide

Character reference sheets, front, side and expressions.
Stills pulled from the archive, cleared for cutting.
The logo pack, light and dark, with the safe area marked.
Station idents and the end card.
A short usage note covering what the pack may not be used for.

Tools

Any pipeline. Image generators, video generators, editors, or a pencil.
Hand drawn work is neither penalised nor preferred.
Tell us in one line what you used. We are curious, not strict.
Your own work only. Other studios' frames stay in other studios.

Prizes

Unannounced

First

To be announced

Second

To be announced

Third

To be announced

The prize pool and the submission window are announced on x.com/ponsanime first. Nothing on this page is final until it is posted there, and right now there is no figure and no date to post.

The call goes out on X first

When the desk opens, the asset pack, the final terms and the prize pool are posted on X before they are posted anywhere else.

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