cap_ironman | 2022 Cap-IM Reverse Bang Guidelines for Artists

Guidelines for Artists

Remember to read through our General Event Policies and Guidelines for All Participants, as well as the artists' guidelines outlined below.

Acceptable fanwork(s) are:

at least one traditional and digital artwork
a fanvid of at least one minute
a fanmix with cover art
at least two manips or gifs

In addition to this, you are required to create a story banner for your team, 580px wide and 200px tall or a higher resolution image with the same dimensions (e.g. 1160:400). The banner can be a SFW crop of the artwork or a specially made banner for the accompanying work.

Fanworks must be created solely for the Reverse Bang and should not have been previously posted anywhere. It will be acting as a prompt, so should be self-contained.

An entry may consist of a single image, a multipanel work, a series of sequential images, 2 or more more gifs, a fanmix with cover art, a manip, or a fanvid. Sequential or multipanel artworks are permitted as long as they do not have large amounts of text (textless entries work best) and do not have an excessive number of images.

You can sign up alone or as part of a co-creating team (the minimum requirements remain the same).

To fulfill your part in the challenge, you are committing to finish the work(s) you submitted for claims and an additional team banner for the team Masterpost. After claims, you are welcome to create additional collaborative artworks for your team entry.

You can submit works in progress for claims, but all final fanwork(s) need to be complete and ready for posting by your team’s posting date.

There is no penalty-free dropping out after your summary has been claimed by a writer.

As you're working on your submission(s), please keep in mind that artworks are posted anonymously during claims. We urge you to be tactful during the pre-claims period.

If you don’t have an idea for an entry yet, you might want to check out our Prompt Post and past Tumblr inspiration posts. Additionally, mods will be posting inspiration posts on the

cap-ironman Tumblr throughout the creation period.

Art Submission Requirements

To officially enter the 2022 Reverse Big Bang, simply submit an art entry that is at minimum:

one piece of art where all characters are recognisable

a fanvid that's at least 50% complete with a visible theme

at least one of your completed GIFs or manips

your fanmix

at any time from now until submissions close at the end of Wednesday, February 16 (on the last timezone).

All participating art must be submitted to cap.im.events@gmail.com by the February 16 submission deadline.

Fanworks do not need to be finished when submitted. You can send in works in progress and sketches but each entry must speak for itself. There will be no opportunity to explain their work prior to claims. Please keep in mind that Reverse Bang works serve as prompts and inspiration for writers, so we encourage you to submit something that sets a scene.

To submit your entry, send an email to cap.im.events@gmail.com with "2022 RBB ENTRY" and the username you want to sign up with as the subject line. Don't forget to attach your art file in a .JPG or .PNG format or submit a link for your vid. Please also name your file to include your username.

In the body of your email, include the following information:

Please note that if you say "any universe", you are saying that you will be happy with an accompanying fic/podfic from ANY of the Marvel universes (including but not limited to 1602, 1872, 616, 3490, AA, AvAc, EMH, MCU etc.) and that your artwork is able to match any universe. If your work is set in a specific era of a universe, please make sure to specify this. Similarly, if you do not want your art to be accompanied by a story or podfic that is an alternate universe inspired by a canon, please state this.

Anything that you do not mention as a DNW could be fair game for your claiming creator. For example, if you dislike coffee shop AUs but did not put down "coffee shop AU" as a DNW in your submission email, then your partner could write a coffee shop AU to accompany your work, and it will be up to you to negotiate with them.

Because this is a collaborative event, there is no penalty-free dropping out after your artwork(s) is claimed. If you run into trouble let us know as soon as possible so we can work with you! Dropping out after your work has been claimed will be considered defaulting on the challenge and will result in a temporary ban from some Cap-IM events.

Claiming Process

After you submit your entry and it's been approved by the mods, it will be available for claims on Saturday, February 19. Claims are done anonymously. Writers will be claiming art based solely on the artwork and additional details you have provided. Out of fairness to all participants, please don't advertise which artwork(s) is yours. We don’t allow pre-formed teams, and we expect all participants to be open to working with new people.

Instructions on how to claim artwork will go up with the preview of art entries on February 17.

If claims go quickly, a second round of claims may be opened to give more writers a chance to participate. This means that your RBB art will potentially be 'double claimed'—claimed by two writers—and you'll be coordinating with two partners. If you'd like to opt out of having your work double claimed, please let the mods know when you submit your work.

We cannot guarantee that every story will be double claimed.

If you are double claimed, you will collaborate as a team of three "creators" (remember that your team may consist of co-creators who are working together to write, co-produce a podfic or create an artwork) that post on the same day. The two creators that independently claimed your artwork can choose to create separate works or co-create them, but that's up to them, and there must be a minimum total of two accompanying works created for your artwork.

We understand that if you are double claimed, you may enjoy working with one of your partners more than the other. However, we expect that you value them both and recognise their works equally in public. If you don't think you can do this, please do not put your work up for double claiming.

Creation Period and Posting

Once your work has been claimed and you've been teamed up with a writer or podficcer, all that's left is to finish your RBB work(s)! If you have been double claimed, keep both stories in mind if you decide to make supplementary work. The posting period begins in May, and mods will be in touch before then with instructions on how to claim a posting date and post your entry. Remember to keep in touch with the rest of your team!

Each participating creator is responsible for posting their work on their scheduled posting day by noon Eastern Time. A challenge-fulfilling work must be posted all at once, and it should be complete as a stand-alone. We require you to link to your partner's work when your team has posted.

On your chosen posting day, ONE member from your entire team is required to send through your team's links and posting information by filling out the Masterpost Information Form.

Before inserting an image into your work, please note that AO3 does not host images; this means you cannot upload an image directly to AO3. Instead you must upload it elsewhere and retrieve a direct image link once you do. (A direct image URL ends in .jpg, .png, .gif, etc.) We advise using a free image uploading service such as Imgur, though please keep in mind the T's and C's regarding hotlinking. We strongly encourage you not to host your image on Tumblr or Google Drive, as these links are liable to break. For more information about embedding art into AO3, please see our AO3 Guide for Cap-IM Events.

If none of these options work for you, please contact the mods at cap.im.events@gmail.com and we will work with you to host your art on one of the Cap-IM accounts.

Check out our REVERSE BANG FAQ POST for more information. Have more questions? Get in touch!