ONLY ONE MONTH LEFT: Test Your Creative Flair on GoAnimate.com



Post Your Most Creative Animation For the Chance to Win $5,000!



Contest Entry Deadline is October 1, 2008



NEW YORK, N.Y. (September 2008) – GoAnimate.com, an entertainment Web site that enables ANYBODY to create computer animations, advanced flash skills or not, offers you the chance to win cash prizes in the GoAnimate Animators Contest by designing and posting your most inventive animation. The creators of GoAnimate designed GoAnimate to allow the casual online socialite the opportunity to share their sentiments, sagas and satires in animation, without drawing talent or a technical understanding of advanced software such as Flash. Anyone, and everyone, who has a story, has the capability to craft an animation and enter!



Entering is easy! Submissions will be accepted until October 1, 2008. To enter the contest just log on to GoAnimate.com and start playing in the GoAnimate Studio to create and post a unique animation. All animations posted by October 1, 2008 will automatically be entered.



One Grand Prize Winner will be evaluated and selected by an expert panel of judges, including Paul Dini, to receive $5,000. The criteria for judging the animations will be based on creativity, storytelling, and animation quality. An additional prize of $2,500 will be awarded through a public judging where users can vote for their favorite entry. So tell your friends to join GoAnimate.com and vote for your animation! See attached official rules for complete details or log onto http://goanimate.com/.



Created by animation fans who want to offer anyone and everyone the ability to share their passion, GoAnimate.com offers web applications for a wide and diverse list of sectors including businesses, advertisers, illustrators, artists, cartoon enthusiasts and especially, the everyday, on-line socialite. The site delivers the opportunity for all Internet users to create animated stories with only a few mouse clicks. In addition to creating animations, people can share their creations and network socially through the web site’s “Mingle” feature.





About GoAnimate, Inc.

GoAnimate was created by a bunch of guys who love animation and want to open up their world to everyone! Our world is made up of great stories and GoAnimate wants to allow everyone and anyone to share their sentiments, sagas and satires with the universe. Headquartered in New York, GoAnimate has offices in Bay Area, and Hong Kong. The creators of GoAnimate have a wide range of expertise spanning from animation and programming to marketing and web solutions.





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Official Rules for GoAnimate.com Animators Contest



NO PURCHASE NECESSARY



Eligibility: This contest is open to all GoAnimate members


Contest Period: The contest period begins on July 24, 2008 and ends October 1, 2008.


How to Enter: Create and animation using the GoAnimate Studio and your animation will be automatically entered into the contest.


Winner Selection: Winners will be selected for two categories. 1 prize winner will be chosen by an expert panel of judges based on creativity, storytelling, and animation quality. 1 prize winner will be chosen through a public judging of GoAnimate users. Sponsor will attempt to notify all potential winners by e-mail or phone on or about November 1, 2008. Potential prize winners will be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and liability/publicity release within 14 days of notification or prize will be awarded to an alternate winner.


Prizes: The Grand Prize winner will receive $5,000. The runner-up chosen through public judging will receive $2,000.


General: Neither sponsor nor its agents are responsible for technical, hardware, software, or telephone failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions, whether caused by Sponsor, entrants or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this promotion or by any human or technical error which may occur in the processing of entries which may damage an entrant’s system or limit an entrant’s ability to participate in this promotion. Entry constitutes permission, where lawful, to use name and/or likeness and/or voice of winner in any manner by the Sponsor, or its agents, without further compensation. By accepting prize, winner agrees that the Sponsor, its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates or agencies shall have no liability whatsoever, for any injuries or damage incurred in whole or part from participation in this promotion. All federal, state and local taxes on prizes are the responsibility of the winner. Void where prohibited, restricted or limited. Subject to all Federal, State and Local laws and regulations.