How to earn Chimes

Illustrations

All artwork must have a minimum of a simplified but recognizable background in order to be considered Chime-worthy.

• Headshots/Busts earn 1 Chimes

• Half body/Full body earn 2 Chimes

  • • As a general rule of thumb, to be considered half body vs bust, we should be seeing a quarter or more of at least 3 legs.

The following images are guides to understand the differences between headshots/busts and half body/full body in a couple different ways:

Collaborations

Collaborations must have equal (or relatively equal) participation from all participants. A collaboration earns the highest possible value amongst participating characters, meaning: 

• Player A and Player B collaborate on an illustration where Player A's character is featured with 50% of their body visible while Player B's character has 90% of their body visible, the collaboration earns 2 Chimes for Player B's character featured as a fullbody.

Comics

Comics must have at least 3 panels in which your character is featured as a headshot (at minimum) - they earn a base price of 3 Chimes

• Each panel must be able to be a standalone submission; this means blinking between panels, slight changes in the face, etc. do not count.

• Your character must be featured in at least 2 out of 3 of the base 3 panels in order to count for the comic earning.

  • If doing a collaboration, the characters belonging to each member working on the comic should be featured in at least one panel each.

    • For an example, if smimley and Spooky do a collaboration with Irina and Perseus, Irina can be featured in only one panel, Perseus can be featured in the next panel, and the third minimum required panel can feature either of them, or another character/scene.

    • In the above example, both smimley and Spooky would earn the comic chimes so long as those standards are met and they've both done work on every panel.

  • If you are including multiple of your own characters in your own comic that you are working solo on, each character of yours in the comic must be featured at minimum twice to earn the comic chimes for all characters.

    • If smim is doing a comic featuring her characters, Irina and Yew, and Irina is in 2 panels and Yew is only in 1 panel, Irina would earn the 3 comic chimes, and Yew would only earn whatever the individual panel she's featured in would earn.

• For every additional panel that is a headshot at minimum, earns an additional +1 Chime (full bodies do not count for more chimes).

  • Panels that are just a character's eye, paws, tail, etc do not count towards the 3 panel minimum, or for an additional chime after the 3 panel minimum.

• For community bonuses, per comic page, earn +1 Chime for each unique character shown that is not part of any of the contributor(s) character set. This does not repeat if the same character is featured twice on the same page in two different panels.

Animations

In order for a piece to count as an animation, your character itself must be moving/animated.

• Simple Animations earn 3 Chimes

  • • A simple animations can be: eye blinking, ear flicks, etc.

• Complex Animations earn 6 Chimes

  • • A complex animation can be: multiple moving body parts/limbs, walk cycles, etc.

PMVs

PMVs are a set of images set to a song that can resemble animation, but usually are not fluidly moving. At minimum, PMVs must be sketches, and ALL forms of PMVs must include a rough background.

• FOR SKETCHED PMVs

  • 2 chimes per 30 seconds of content (must reach 30 seconds minimally to count as a PMV)

• FOR FLAT COLORED/MONOCHROMATIC PMVs

  • 3 chimes per 30 seconds of content (must reach 30 seconds minimally to count as a PMV)

• Every 30 additional seconds of the PMV will earn another 2 or 3 chimes depending on the stage of drawing done.

  • A 1 minute and 30 second grey-scale (monochromatic) PMV will earn a total of 9 chimes

  • If the PMV is 2 seconds off of the next 30 second interval, we will round it up. Anything below that will be counted up until the previous 30 second interval.

    • A 58 second grey-scale (monochromatic) PMV will earn a total of 6 chimes

    • A 1 minute and 16 second grey-scale (monochromatic) PMV will earn a total of 6 chimes

• The community bonus will apply to PMVs regardless of type, but only +1 Chime may be earned per unique character featured

  • • A character featured at the 5 second marker, and that same character being featured at the 20 second marker will not count for two community bonuses.

Community Bonuses

In addition the above, featuring a character that does not belong to you (or your collab partner when applicable) earns an additional +1 Chime per character featured.

Gift Art / Trades

You may complete gift art of currently active characters, or participate in art trades between members of currently active characters, and earn chimes for it! While we would much rather people focus on collaborating together and telling stories together, we understand that sometimes you wanna surprise someone, or draw a character you can't collab with. There are a few limitations/rules to keep in mind;

• Members are limited to cashing 3 gift arts/trades per season.

• Gift art/trades should be fully shaded and with a background to count. So for example, this piece of Percy would count, but these floating heads would not count. It follows all the same rules as normal when submitting chimes for a character.

• Gift art/trades earn +1 chime that will be added on to a character of your choice. This is earned regardless of if the character featured in the gift art is a head shot, or a full body.

• There are no IC-word descriptions that need to be provided. We don't want you writing something up for someone else's character, and it ends up being out of character for them!!

• All gift arts/trades will go into the Gift Art folder in the deviantart group.

Literature

A literature piece is a stand-alone short story that does not directly reply to or follow another character's narrative, only their own. The minimum requirement of a solo-lit piece is a minimum of 500 words to be considered Chime-worthy.

• The first 500 words earns 1 Chime

• Every additional 500 words earns 1 Chime

  • • For example, a solo literature piece with a word count of 1800 earns 3 Chimes

Roleplays - Post by Post

Post-by-Post Roleplays are collaborative writing pieces where two (or more) players participate and write paragraphs in a turn-based order. The minimum requirement of a Post-by-Post roleplay is 3 posts from each participating character, in order to be considered Chime-worthy.

• The first 500 words for your character earns 1 Chime

• Every additional 500 your for each character earns 1 Chime

  • • Note, word count must hit the next tier in order to earn the additional Chime

    • If Character A has a word count of 1200 and Character B has a word count of 1999, Character A earns 2 Chimes and Character B earns 3 Chimes

Roleplays - Script Style

Script-Style Roleplays are collaborative writing pieces where two (or more) players participate in a more fluid style usually denoted by a change in colour text for the change of character perspective. The minimum requirement of a Script-Style roleplay is a minimum word count of 1000 words written altogether.

• The first 1000 words in total earns 1 Chime

• Every additional 500 words earns 1 Chime

  • • Note, word count must hit the next tier in order to earn the additional Chime

    • A script style RP between 2 characters with 2280 words will earn both characters 3 Chimes