After months of blood, sweat, and tears we have reached the close of the first round of the Podfic Big Bang. Over the past few weeks, the community has shared 21 podfics (15 for the main bang, 6 for the bonus bang) and 28 cover designs. Many podfic projects were enhanced with music and/or sound effects; alas, it was not always clear that sound enhancements had been made or who had made those enhancements, so we can't give specifics on that count. Overall, it was a very impressive showing! All participants should be very proud of themselves. *\o/*

Particular accolades go out to:

• deadflowers5 for submitting the first piece of cover art
• chemm80 for submitting the first completed podfic
• martinius for submitting the first sound enhancements--and having created brand new Creative Commons music to boot!
• weimar27 for submitting the longest podfic (at 8:19:51 for the standard version & 8:41:31 for the music-enhanced version)
• sophinisba and eosrose for submitting the most podfics (3 each)
• bessyboo for submitting contributions to the most podfic projects in an artistic capacity (a total of 4)

At this point it is unclear of whether we'll run again next year. If we do, here are a few changes we've been considering:

• streamline the podficcer sign-up process by merging primary project title submission with the initial sign-ups; keep podficcer sign-ups open longer to make up the difference
• collect email addresses with sign-ups so that we can contact more easily when problems and/or questions arise
• officially extend the recording period of the challenge to a full 5 or 6 months from the time sign-ups open
• make sure submissions aren't due around the time many people are facing final exams, etc.
• create a parallel community on dreamwidth for people who prefer posting there

In the meantime, eosrose has recently been in touch with the lovely people over at Archive of Our Own regarding posting non-textual fanworks like podfic and the upcoming Torrent of Our Own intended for media-hosting. Good news: (a) TO3 staff hopes to have media-hosting capabilities go live sometime this year, and (b) podficcers are welcome to post external downloads to works and/or embed streaming media RIGHT NOW. No need to wait. In light of this, eosrose took the liberty of creating a Collection for podfics that were included in the big bang (both the main bang and the bonus bang). If you’re interested in adding your work, please feel free. If you need an invite code, just send eosrose your email address.

Thanks go out to everyone for participating!

Your mods,
eosrose and dreaming_athena

EDIT: To add your podfic (or art) to the AO3 collection, go to the first field in the "Associations" portion of the work submission form, which is "Post to Collections/Challenges". Just type in "podfic_big_bang_2011" and your work should be added to the collection.

Podficcers

Cover Artists

Special Effects Artists

Alright, guys. Below is the match-up list as it stands now.

If you are a podficcer and your name is not on here, that's because you did not submit your title to the proper post. If you PM'd your title to us, we appreciate the effort, but you probably fell into a black hole. You can still submit a title to the proper post, however--we don't want to leave you behind!

We have quite a few lovely artists who kindly decided to claim more than one project. Thank you! Alas, there are still a few projects up for claiming. Please have a look at them and poke anyone you know who might be able to help out and give these projects some love. ♥

If you have been matched-up, but have not yet been in contact with your partner-in-crime, please remedy this immediately. Check your PM inbox.

Now is the time for the first check-in for both artists and podficcers. This isn't mandatory, but please comment to this post to let us know how you are progressing and if there are any unexpected snags you're running into. Rant, flail, whatever, just let us know you're still alive. ^_~

P.S. Your mod is sick as a dog as she posts this, so if you notice any errors, be a dear and let me know?

Stats (as of 5:00PM CST 3/26/2011)

Total Titles Submitted: 23
Titles Claimed: 22
Titles Remaining: 1

Guidelines

1. The claims post goes live at 8PM CST (check here to see what time it now) on February 5th and will remain open until the last story is claimed.
2. From now until all artists have had a chance to claim a project, artists are asked to claim only ONE project. An announcement will be made at a later date for artists to go crazy and claim as may as they feel they can handle. Artists may now claim additional titles--as many as you feel you can comfortably handle.
3. To claim a project, reply to the project you want with "CLAIM" in the subject or body of your comment.
4. Once I've received a claim, I will send the podficcer and artist each other's contact information.
5. All claimed projects will be screened in order to make it easier to find projects still in need of a little love.

Short Cuts

• Request for Cover Art
  • Harry Potter
  • Inception
  • Merlin
  • Stargate: Atlantis
  • Supernatural
  • RPF > Supernatural
    
    
• Request for Music/Sound Effects
  • RPF > Bandom (My Chemical Romance)
    
    
• Request for either Cover Art or Music/Sound Effects (no preference)
  • Fantastic Four (movies)
  • Generation Kill
  • Harry Potter
  • Merlin
  • White Collar
  • RPF > American Idol

Artist Sign-Ups

If you claim a story, please make sure you sign up to be an artist first. We are still accepting new artists.