GoAnimate is hosting a new contest where you can win copies of SFIV and more. Check out what they have to say and how to enter:

For those of you who are familiar, GoAnimate.com is a great website that allows you to easily create and share animations. One of the coolest things about us is that we have teamed up with Capcom to offer users the ability to animate several Street Fighter characters, so any avid Street Fighter fan can design their favorite fight scene, story or parody. 

For example:

--Design an outer space adventure for Chun Li, Ryu and Ken aboard the Starship Enterprise!

--Have M. Bison be insulted by It’s Happy Bunny!

--Have Blanka, Dhalsim and Vega hang out with Willie Nelson and Mickey Raphael on their tour bus!

In honor of this new feature, we will be running a MASHUP CONTEST from May 12th until May 26th. What you can do is sign up on GoAnimate.com, create an account, and create a mashup animation that features at least two of the channels mentioned above. For this contest, we have collaborated with our various licensors to provide winners with really awesome prize packages, containing themed prizes from each of the licensed channels (please note that the 3 Grand Prize winners will receive Xbox360 copies of Street Fighter IV). In addition, the three Grand Prize-winning animations will be featured from May 28th until June 4th right here on Capcom-Unity! So in addition to an awesome prize package, the Grand Prize winners will also gain fame and notoriety in this amazing online community! Winners will be determined by the total number of views their mashup animations get…so sign up early and get your friends and family to watch your animations. For more details, please see www.goanimate.com!

GoAnimate.com Announces Mashup Madness Contest

Two Week Competition Will Award Best User-Submitted Animations to Mashup Popular Characters

New York, NY — May 12, 2009 — GoAnimate.com, the online platform that enables everyone to create their own customizable animations, today announced its Mashup Madness contest, which will reward users for the best animations that mashup GoAnimate.com’s various licensed characters. Just last week, GoAnimate.com announced the new ability to mashup the licensed properties on their site, enabling users to mix and match Street Fighter, Star Trek, It’s Happy Bunny, Underdog and Willie Nelson characters. The Mashup Madness contest will seek to identify the best animations born from the new mashup features, and a total of eight users will receive prizes for their creations.

“Based on the overwhelming response to our new mashup capabilities and the number of amazing new animations we’ve seen, we thought it was time to throw down the gauntlet and see what our users are really made of,” said Alvin Hung, Founder and CEO of GoAnimate.com. “We’re excited to see what great new creations come out of this contest!”

GoAnimate.com’s Mashup Madness contest will begin on Tuesday, 5/12 and will conclude on Tuesday, May 26. Winners will be selected and announced on Thursday, May 28.

The rules for this contest are as follows:

• The available channels for mashup animations are STREET FIGHTER, STAR TREK, UNDERDOG, WILLIE NELSON, and IT’S HAPPY BUNNY along with all the non licensed GoAnimate Channels; Politics and Celebrities, Monster Mayhem, Cartoon Classics, Super Rica and Rashy.
• Mashups must feature AT LEAST two different licensed channels, and AT LEAST two characters from each.  If ALL channels are used, then it is acceptable to only use one character from each channel.
  • Only those animations that utilize all five (5) channels will be entered for the Grand Prize
  • Animations must be at least one minute long.
  • Animations that do not use music or sound effects will not be considered, regardless of number of views.
  • The winning animations will be determined by total number of views.
• PRIZES:
  • Three (3) Grand Prize winners will be awarded the following for FULL Mashup Animations (animations that feature at least one character from every licensed channel; Star Trek, Street Fighter, Underdog, It’s Happy Bunny, and Willie Nelson):
    • Licensed Prize Package Consisting of; Star Trek SceneIt Trivia Game, Star Trek UNO® card game, a copy of Street Fighter IV for Xbox360, a set of Underdog DVDs, one copy of the Willie Nelson CD Naked Willie, and one It’s Happy Bunny tote bag
    • 1000 GoBucks
    • Winning animations to be showcased from May 28^th – June 4^th, 2009 on the following sites; Trekmovie.com, capcom-unity.com, and Willie Nelson’s MySpace page for the whole world to see
    • Winning animations to be showcased on GoAnimate from May 28^th – June 4^th, 2009
  • Five (5) First Prize winners will be awarded the following for PARTIAL Mashup Animations (features at least four (4) characters from at least two (2) licensed channels):
    • Licensed Prize Package Consisting of; Star Trek Scrabble, a Street Fighter t-shirt, an It’s Happy Bunny t-shirt, and an Underdog t-shirt
    • Winning animations to be showcased on GoAnimate from May 28^th – June 4^th, 2009

“I can guarantee that those Street Fighter and Star Trek characters have never met up with anyone like It’s Happy Bunny before,” said Jim Benton, creator of It’s Happy Bunny. “So, I’m looking forward to seeing what happens when It’s Happy Bunny mixes it up with them.”

“Ever since we first brought Underdog and our other classic cartoons to the GoAnimate platform, we have been amazed by the level of interaction this enabled for fans,” said Nicole Blake, [TITLE] of Entertainment Rights. “Now that Underdog is able to mix it up with the other characters on the GoAnimate.com site, we’re even more excited to see what people come up with!”

So what are you waiting for? Get started creating your mashup animation today at: goanimate.com/  

About GoAnimate, Inc.

GoAnimate, Inc. is an entertainment website that enables everyone to simply and easily create their own animations. GoAnimate was created by a bunch of guys who love animation, and who wanted to enable everyone to share in the joy of animation without any need for previous training. We believe the world is made up of great stories, and we want to empower you to creatively tell yours and then share them with your world. To get started, please visit goanimate.com/.  

Headquartered in New York, GoAnimate has offices in the Bay Area and Hong Kong. For more information or to partner with GoAnimate, please contact Stone Newman, Senior VP of Licensing and Business Development, at stone@goanimate.com. 

About Entertainment Rights

About Capcom Entertainment, Inc.

Capcom Entertainment, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Capcom U.S.A., Inc., is one of the most successful companies in the multi-billion dollar interactive entertainment industry. Its unparalleled legacy spans all video game platforms with scores of million-selling hits and enduring properties. The company markets, develops and distributes interactive entertainment software for leading game consoles and handheld systems. Capcom is also a charter member of the Entertainment Software Association.

Legacy Recordings

The multiple Grammy-winning Legacy Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division, produces and maintains the world's foremost catalog of historic reissues, an unparalleled compendium of thousands of digitally remastered archival titles representing virtually every musical genre including popular, rock, jazz, blues, R&B, hip-hop, folk, country, gospel, Broadway musicals, movie soundtracks, ethnic, world music, classical, comedy and more.

Founded in 1990 by CBS Records (rebranded Sony Music in 1991), Legacy's original mission was to preserve and reissue recordings from the extensive catalogs of Columbia Records (including ARC, Brunswick, OKeh and Vocalion), Epic Records (including Philadelphia International Records) and associated CBS labels.  Following the creation of Sony BMG Music Entertainment in 2005, Legacy assumed responsibility for the preservation and ongoing availability of recordings from the archives of the BMG family of labels including RCA Records, Arista, J Records, Jive, Profile, Silvertone, Sony BMG Nashville and Windham Hill, as well as imprints including American, Bang!, CTI, Mainstream, Monument, Ode, and others.

About CopCorp Licensing

CopCorp Licensing is global licensing agent for Jim Benton's It's Happy Bunny. CopCorp Licensing is known as an innovative and strategic licensing agency that specializes in the development of brand, character, art, publishing, and entertainment based licensing opportunities for presentation and packaging to the manufacturer and retailer communities. Led by Carole Postal, Founder and President, CopCorp Licensing develops, sells, negotiates, markets, and implements complete licensing strategies and programs for major entertainment corporations, artists, art studios, apparel brand names, among many others.