Design a Dog Contest!

 

Attention all Artists!

 

Persephone, Webkinz World’s most fashionable Host, is throwing a special event in honor of Webkinz Day!

 

You’re invited to participate in Persephone’s Design A Dog Contest! There’s a black and white Webkinz puppy that needs a makeover! Submit your own design and, if you get chosen by Persephone and her Webkinz team, your design will be turned into a virtual Webkinz Pet!

 

It’s easy to participate! Just follow these five easy steps…

 

1.

 

2.Color in the Puppy.

 

3. Scan or photograph your drawing.

 

4. Upload it to the Design A Dog Contest Gallery on the on the GanzWorld Share Center any time between Monday March 24th and Friday April 25th!

 

5. Cross your fingers until Webkinz Day (April 29th) to see if your design won! 

 

The grand prize winner will receive a 1-Year Deluxe Membership AND their Design will be turned into a real Webkinz virtual pet, which the Winner will have added to his or her Webkinz World account!

Remember,

 

  • You can enter as many designs as you want- the more submissions the merrier!
  • Contestants HAVE to upload their work to the Design A Dog Gallery on the GanzWorld Share Center. Never uploaded to the ShareCenter before? Don’t worry! It’s easy. Just watch this video to see how it’s done!
  • You can use any kind of art supplies that you want! Want to use markers, pencil crayons, crayons, it doesn’t matter- this contest’s Fabulous Level? Unlimited!
  • You don’t NEED to include ideas for this pet’s adoption gifts (PSI & PSF), but feel free to draw them out if you want!
  • We can’t accept submissions with company logos, or sports team emblems.
  • Please make sure you save your images as a jpg, gif, or png.

 

Rumor has it that Persephone will announce the winner on Webkinz Day!

 

So sharpen your pencils, equip your imaginations, and get drawing!

 

Read the full contest rules here.

709 Responses to Design a Dog Contest!

  1. Allieberry2 says:

    I am not entering. Why? Because I would want a plush of the pet, AND because there are too many pattern puppies. We don’t need another one.

  2. littleheartbigbark says:

    Do we HAVE to use the coloring page? Cause I took a screen shot of the puppy on the “Artists! Sharpen Your Pencils!” thing.

  3. momskinz says:

    Bravo! What a great contest!

  4. littleheartbigbark says:

    That’s a relief I can do more than one! I can’t decide! Soooo, I guess I can be as creative as I want and enter as many as I want. lol

  5. RADlCAL says:

    i just submitted mine!! can’t wait to see everyone else’s!

  6. isabell says:

    amazing i wont win but ill try . . . sigh

  7. bepoodlepal says:

    awesome me and my sister are entering this

  8. mollyberger says:

    yay! I am excited! I am gonna enter like a million times!

  9. hellokitty1244 says:

    So you need to 1st Download it, 2nd Print it, 3rd create it, 4th Take a picture of it, and 5th Upload it to Share Center?

  10. KarenC says:

    Cool! Sounds like fun! Can’t wait to see all the cool dogs that everyone will design :)

    • AwsomeSwagDragonGirl1 says:

      8-) AWSOME SAUCE!!! XD I <3 this contest 8-)

      • oreosmaster2011 says:

        Awesome dragon! Awesome sauce is my thing! Stop saying it please?!

        • JesusismyLord830 says:

          aw oreosmaster2011 don’t be upset she didn’t try to copy you, this is a free country so let her say what she wants. (plus she spelled it without the e in awEsome, so you can say it with an added e and they’ll both be different and unique)

        • msnk4 says:

          wait i clicked on the doloude and it shoude a pic are we supos to print that and then sudmit or….. CAN SOME ONE TELL ME !!!!!!!!! LOL

        • mallorymastbogie says:

          I agree that awesomeswagdragongirl should stop because I know how you feel a lot of people at my School take my drawing ideas,and its no fun. people should be uniqe and people should stop taking other peoples ideas!

        • Lindsey7618 says:

          Awesomesauce is MY thing!!!!! But seriously, no need to fight. It can be ALL our thing, right? Hey, has anyone read PJO? (Percy Jackson). Or any books by Rick Riordan? Or the 39 Clues? Or watched Class of the Titans or Animorphs?

      • everyis2 says:

        what is AWESOME SAUCE ? does it taste good ?

        • mrMiLK1977 says:

          Awesome Possum!!

        • hiwebkinzgirl says:

          awesome sauce = phrase! can I get a whoop whoop?

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            Whoop whoop!

          • mrMiLK1977 says:

            Matt – you are One Cool Dude!! I think I speak for all when I say thanks for your assistance and advice on things. It’s apparent you have a very cool job with Ganz… does Ganz provide any sort of tours of where you guys work so fans can see more behind the scenes action? And last question – I had submitted a story for the Rockerz Pet Contest, a while ago now – where we were asked to write a story on how the Rockerz Tour went… but I never saw an announcement or posting for a winner for that contest… is that Still pending? or did I most likely miss the posting? Thanks again Matt!!!

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            Why thank you! Yeah, it’s a cool place to work. I’m not sure if we offer tours … I don’t think I’ve ever heard about players randomly showing up at our door step haha. We have had play testing happen here though, and have met some players through that. I’m not sure about the Rockerz Pet contenst; I’m not too in tune with the contests that happen on Webkinz since I’m more focused on Webkinz Friends and the game design stuff – but I’ll ask around haha.

          • mrMiLK1977 says:

            Cool thanks for the info! The Rockerz contest was last summer I think, or before that even – but I’m sure there were a lot of fun entries, just hoped I could have won or read some of the other submissions… As for the tours – the Road Trip is a really fun event for us players to interact more with you guys! I’ve always enjoyed taking tours of historic buildings or landmarks or even factories and companies behind the scenes. Something to think about? One last suggestion… anyone agree that Matt should be presented with his own “area” on here for Q&A… like a separate blog or something… again.. Just an idea! LOL – Have a good weekend everyone!!!

          • hafarm2013 says:

            Omg, Matt you work for Ganz?!?!? That’s like, amazing! How did you get the job? Is it awesome? :-)

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            Haha, I applied! It’s a pretty awesome place to work, yeah, and everyone here is really cool. Plus, we get some neat perks … like free pets. OH AND ALSO GANZ HATS that we put on our pets in Webkinz World. You might see some of us running around with them on. :)

          • shalperin says:

            WHAT DO THE HATS LOOK LIKE?!

          • speedymice5 says:

            Matt, you work for WEBKINZ!?! Thee ACTUAL Webkinz??!?! So do you get like before-time info on new petz and stuff? Are you like a designer or something? If so, I have a few questions…. #1: Why are there SOOOO many Graffiti Pups? If you’re not familiar with the term, Graffiti Pups, are the pups that just have printed fabrics, like the doughnut puppy, the cake puppy, the texting puppy, ect. So why? I know that most players prefer the real life critters, like different dog breeds, wild animals, horses, you know? 2nd question… I’m not sure if you have insight on this but, figured I ask… why is Ganz retiring so many pets? And it seems like most of the prizes are pretty crumby. Easy-to-fins Curio Shop junk, party pack food, and stuff you can make yourself? It’s pretty lame. Now for #3 Please take suggestions! Here’s mine! Basinji/other dog breeds, and a Quarter Horse! Thx Matt! Hope you don’t mind! ~Speedymice

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            Yep, I work at the actual Webkinz haha. You can hear me in the third episode in Podkinz. And yep, we get before-time info of the pets … we’re the ones who have to come up with them and their PSI/PSF’s. We even have a ‘vault’ here that has all the upcoming plush toy’s all lined up by month. ;)

            Anyway, to answer your questions:

            1. Pets follow a template for manufacturing and the easiest ones to do are the printed fabric ones, since they’re on the body of the pet. Things that hair or are more realistic (like the signatures) require a lot more work when mass producing. So I suppose that’s the reason behind it.

            2. Ganz retire pets that are not being manufactured anymore. Even though it seems like they’ve been happening for a long time, the reality is that the pets that are being announced have already stopped being made by Ganz. We’re just announcing them one at a time. The reason for that is obviously business reasons, based on sales of specific pets and a decision being made whether more of that pet is worth producing.

            3. Your pet ideas have been passed on!

          • dragonsparklez says:

            Does our design get to be made into a stuffed animal? ):

          • kamakitty123 says:

            Hey matt r they still allowing people to inter and r we allowed to turn chartecters from movies into pets or is that considered copping?

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            I’m not sure when you posted this, but the contest is over. As for the question (for curiosity sake), no – nothing that is a character from another movie is allowed because of copyrights.

          • kittypurry200511 says:

            what if you could design a baby dragon

          • purplepot1 says:

            hi so I have a drawing I want to enter in this amaze contest and it wont let me!!!!!! help!!!

          • kamakitty123 says:

            aww man well iam not winning than :C

          • Hhayes says:

            lol Matt. You are a totally radical dude.

          • BMDlover says:

            I agree 100%

          • shalperin says:

            Hhayes does your username stand for HUNTER HAYES?

          • Lindsey7618 says:

            If your name stands for Hunter Hayes, you are AWESOME!!!!!

          • cljackso says:

            I was in my den today with friends on webkinz and i was trying to talk to them through the chat setup but it took forever and i could’nt find what i wanted to say.Can webkinz have a free chat system?Still keeping it safe of course though

        • 30Cocacola says:

          I don’t know. I have never tasted it. :-) I bet it is just a fancy way of saying ketchup.

        • msnk4 says:

          ohhhhhhhhhhh yes awesome sauce tast like your fav snace mixed with your secent loli spellt so much stuf wrong lol xD

      • stephenie says:

        OMG I ENTERED TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!AND I SAW LOTS OF PUPPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I HOPE MINES WIN AND GOOD LUCK TO THE OTHER PEOPLE WHO ENTER :)

      • abcdefg says:

        im entering. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!! :D

    • Valtine says:

      IT WILL NOT LET ME

    • 4BubbaGump says:

      Does anyone know if the winners will be chosen by viewers votes, or if the winners be chosen by the people working at GANZ?

      • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

        The winner will be chosen by Ganz.

        • PEBBLES1973 says:

          Hey Matt. why does Ganz only pick 5 winners? Doesn’t seem fair to the rest of us. there should be more than 5 winners.. I think there should be at least 1000 winners

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            Ganz only picks one winner who’s pet will be designed. I don’t think it’s a matter of being fair … realistically nobody can honestly expect Ganz to just make everyone’s pet for them, and some of them may not even be (legally) allowed. This is also a contest, and that’s how contests work.

          • momo4cookie says:

            How will we know if we win?

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            You will be emailed and announced.

          • _emiemiemiemiemi_ says:

            Hey, webkinz, :[ Well, I did send one in.. but I guess you didn’t like it.. Everyone in my family thought it was excellent. I guess not ._. But if you did like it could I send it in again for this contest?

          • _emiemiemiemiemi_ says:

            You are right, but I did at least hope mine would be on Webkinz Newz’s fan art

          • happyday19402 says:

            mine will be on there I gust know it.

          • jp899 says:

            What does it look like Happyday?

          • asasw says:

            I think you mean JUST you did a spelling mastake. dont worry I do that ALL the time. i almost did tine! woops!

          • pealover says:

            I sooo… do it all the time also. No hard feelings:)

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            I’m not sure what you mean? We haven’t picked the winner yet for this contest. If you mean you’ve sent in drawings before as fan mail, then we would have seen it (we look at them all) and the fact we didn’t make it a real pet doesn’t mean we didn’t like it. We get a lot of submissions, haha.

          • JesusismyLord830 says:

            Matt, I have a question, if someone submits an entry in the share center (let’s say it’s legal and would require no copyright or anything like that) will it always be posted and approved or not? ( I’ve sent in pictures before of my pets and I got an e-mail saying they were reviewed, but I didn’t see them in the gallery or under “my pictures” , if that were to happen to me again for this contest, would my entry be valid? Thanks. :mrgreen: :lol:

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            It just takes someone to go through them and manually approve them. But there’s not anyone on hand all the time to do that, so it might take a while to even get up. The fortunate thing is that when Ganz reviews the pets, they’ll be looking through the full submission list, not just what’s shown on the Share Center, so it’ll be seen regardless.

          • JesusismyLord830 says:

            ok thanks!

          • thaliagracehalfblood says:

            Hay Matt, do you work for Ganz? if so, could you tell me how to make movies on Webkinz? B) :) ;)

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            Hi, yep I work at Ganz! Hello! I’m not sure what software one would use to make a movie without having to film their screen with a camera (that would look bad). You could definitely search on Google for software that will record your screen/microphone, there has to be free software out there somewhere.

          • beatitkid says:

            What do you do at Ganz?

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            I work on Webkinz Friends mainly. I’ve helped on other projects like creating levels for Goober’s Atomic Adventures and designing new arcade games etc. :)

          • Hhayes says:

            Matt I see you are busy answering ALOT of questions and I just want to thank you for answering ALL of our questions.

          • dontworrybehappy900 says:

            Dear Matt WebkinzFriends, You make games,right? Can you make a game themed around dogs chasing bones? Maybe the reward cold be a dog treat instead of kinzkash!

          • dontworrybehappy900 says:

            Matt WebkinzFriends, (going off earlier comment) if you take me up on that game idea, reply to this comment and say that it was a success!

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            Haha. Arcade games take a long time to create, so if that were to happen, this comment will be long gone I’d imagine. But rest assured, when we are brainstorming ideas for games I will mention you and your idea. ;)

          • animaljamrocks says:

            Hey Matt, I need to know if the person that wins gets the pet? Please tell me.

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            You could always read the contest post. But yes, the winner will get a version of their pet. ;)

          • PEBBLES1973 says:

            hey Matt can you make a game that’s inside a pyramid. where there are traps and obstacles and you have to rescue the citizens of kinzville and find a way out. also you start with a backpack filled with food water a rope and flashlight

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            Haha, that might be a little much to do in 3D. But I could see that working as a 2D Platformer which we don’t really have in Webkinz right now. Sounds cool!

          • Hhayes says:

            and I’m sure you can enter it :D

          • Hhayes says:

            forget the one above

          • candyissoawesome says:

            Hey Matt??? I had an idea that came from this contest……. Maybe what you could do is have people pay Ganz to make their drawing into a Webkinz plush and a virtual pet…. it would make a lot of money and people could design their own pet… I just think that would be cool!!! Oh and can you maybe suggest to the people to make days where non deluxe members can experience being a member and the advantages that come with it??? I just think that would be cool also….. please respond and my username is redheadedswimmer. btw, there is no period at the end of my username…. lolz

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            Hi! Yeah, the same thought actually occurred to the Creative team here while doing this contest too. Great minds think alike, eh? But realistically, it’s not a feasible thing to do. The material, and manufacturing costs to make a single pet vs. bulk manufacturing of a specific pets sold all around the world, isn’t really worth it. A lot of work goes into a single pet; so much so that the plush are actually created and ready a year in advance (we have a vault upstairs with the finished plush coming up … it’s cool!). I like the idea though, it would be really cool. :)

          • prettyinpink45kinz says:

            Hey Matt! I’ve spent almost all of my kinzcash trying to figure out the neon tutu. Could you give us a hint to what it may be? I reaaaallly want it! Its totally cool if you can’t tell us anything about it, but since nobody knows what it is I thought i should ask for a hint to what the clothing machine recipe for it is. If you know.

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            I don’t actually know off the top of my head and it would look really suspicious if I randomly started asking for the file. ;)

          • snowball31802 says:

            Also, the year the Chili Mazin’ Hamster was being bundled with the Deluze Membership, I got the membership but never got Chili.

          • snowball31802 says:

            Hey Matt, a few years ago i sent in ideas to GANZ in an email with the flying snake and the plagued pig. This was maybe in, 2009 or so. Then I saw the Winged Tiger, and it had the same color scheme as the flying snake I made (pale blue main fur, dark blue stripes, but maybe a few shades off). Would this possibly be just a coincidence or borrowing from my ideas? Thanks.

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            Oh boy, that’s way before I was working here. But I do know that the artists look for inspiration everywhere when they put together new things like pets, PSF’s and PSI’s etc. It’s entirely possible the artist who did that pet had seen the fan mail and was inspired by it, yeah. But it would be impossible to find out for sure. Haha.

          • snowball31802 says:

            Yeah, I understand you weren’t there, but I was just wondering if you knew anything about it.

          • snowball31802 says:

            What about Chili then?

          • nyala4 says:

            Hello Matt! I entered this contest, but the email I have connected to my account doesn’t get the messages. I checked the spam folder and stuff. If I were to win, how would I get the code?

          • Aphrodite10WK says:

            I agree with you Matt.

          • thefox1000 says:

            matt whats a psi and psf ?

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            They’re what comes with a pet when you adopt it. Pet Specific Item and Pet Specific Food is what they stand for. But of course, it’s just easier to say PSF/PSI. :)

          • princesslauren01 says:

            Okay so Matt I have been deluxe for about a year now and my account is on deluxe renewal… This month I did not receive my gift package. I did not log in this month until now, did this affect it?

          • KBG2020 says:

            So it doesn’t matter what our score by the community is? Thank goodness.. Anywho, did we have to submit it BEFORE March 25th, or anytime DURING March 25th, before midnight. I submitted mine yesterday, and I really hope it was still entered.

          • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

            Nope, it doesn’t matter. And it was any time on March 25th before midnight (EST).

          • groverduffy2004 says:

            ware do you go to find the winners? Can somone tell me!

          • totomumu says:

            I is mostly just fun. If you win then that is sure awesome! But for those who don’t i is simply fun to color a cute puppy!

          • puppydog101 says:

            I DO NOT AGREE!

        • itsadventuretime23 says:

          It won’t let me download a coloring page…

          • msnk4 says:

            what you do is save pic as in your computer then ether hook it up to a printer or just click copy and put it on a power point and on the power point it let me dotal all over it lol lol lol .

      • lolgal1968 says:

        you gotta be kidding! five is enough! i thought there was only one a5t first and thought i had a pretty good chance!

    • msnk4 says:

      ummmmm is it free?

    • yuck19 says:

      im probly gonna do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • lukecat says:

      i made a fancy pup 8-)

    • CupcakezRule642 says:

      I am excited too! I’m new here and this is the first contest I’ve entered. I can’t wait to see who wins!

    • hafarm2013 says:

      Has anyone esle noticed Ganz is running out of new animal ideas? I think thats why they’re doing this contest! But, who am I to judge THE Ganz? :-)

      • Matt WebkinzFriends says:

        The pet’s are done way in advance for (I think?) two years ahead so we’re not exactly scraping for ideas. However, we thought it would be fun to involve the community in making a pet, and so here we are. ;)

    • hamsters8 says:

      I’m sure I’m going to win!

    • hafarm2013 says:

      I entered the Streaming Silver Puppy!!! I hope its cute… :-) It might still b waiting moderation. Good luck everyone!!!

    • cecwill8 says:

      me too!!!!!!!!! :)

    • OJ2014 says:

      I want to draw a dog but after you download it were do you find it so you can draw on it?

    • lm717 says:

      I have been drawing webkinz on paper that have NOT been on the webkinz website and i wanted to enter my seaweed sea horse but i have to draw a dog instead… mabye the next contest they can let anyone draw any animal they want even if it’s not a real webkinz plushie yet

    • dris123 says:

      this is my user so you can friend me on webkinz,vini10123, I send gifts on webkinz a lot. It is also a lottery to be my friend. I will get lots of friend requests and only 3 or4 will be my friend!many will enter few will win! by the way I love doctor who

    • bananaboat02 says:

      Dear Gennellewebkinz, how often does the contest video update

    • eh411 says:

      cant wait to see who won! i saw how great all of the entries are and it must be hard to choose the winner!see ya in webkinz world! -eh411

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