Announcing a new Pet Design Contest – and this time the pet will be up to you! Will it be a dog, a bird, a dragon, a dust bunny??? We cannot wait to see what you come up with!
That’s right – this your chance to design a brand new virtual Webkinz pet which will be sold in Ganz eStore starting on Webkinz Day – April 29, 2017.
This year – we are letting your imagination run free. You can design whatever type of animal you want. You can use our basic template below if you want, as a guideline. And if you are looking for some different body types, feel free to use the templates we included with our Design a Halloween Pet contest or make your own!
When you’re done you upload your drawing to the Webkinz Day Pet 2017 gallery in the Share Center.
The winner will receive a virtual version of their winning entry, a brand new Pet Design Trophy plus a 1 Year Deluxe Membership. The nine runners-up will receive a 1 Month Deluxe Membership.
The contest runs from January 1 – 31, 2017. We will narrow down the selection to 10 finalists and post the short list on Friday, February 3. Then, after taking your comments into consideration, we will announce the winning design on Valentine’s Day 2017.
Then, our talented artists go to work – taking the winning design and turning it into an awesome pet that will available in the Ganz eStore on April 29, 2017.
A few things to remember…
You can enter as many designs as you want!
Contestants MUST upload their work to the Webkinz Day Pet 2017 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. Feel free to use markers, pencil crayons, crayons, or other art materials. Go for it! While we will not accept images that have computer generated patterns or graphics copied and added to them, participants may use programs like Paint or Photoshop to color and draw freehand.
You don’t NEED to include ideas for this pet’s adoption gifts (PSI & PSF), but you can draw them 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.
Click here for full contest rules.
Bring on your ideas! We can’t wait to meet the newest member to the Webkinz Family!
One more question. During the 2015 Design a Pet Contest, pets that celebrated Webkinz were encouraged because of upcoming Webkjnz day. Is that the case here as well, since the winning pet will be released Webkinz day? Sorry for so many questions =P
That was more because of the 10th anniversary :) You can do whatever you like for this one.
Cool thanks!
This sounds awesome! I’ll give it a try. Maybe I’ll make the first-ever Webkinz moth!
Sally, may we use the dog, cat, dragon, etc pages that you guys have in your coloring and activity pages articles? I believe they were templates from the 2015 design an webkinz contest?
Yep, you can use whatever you like. Template, no template, anything goes :D
Thank you!! I’m going to start working today!
Are we allowed to submit designs right now, or do we have to wait ’till the 1st to submit any entries?
Please wait until January 1
Alright, thanks!
This is really cool! I hope I can come up with some good designs.. I’m not very creative in completely coming up with something out of nothing. =P Good luck to all on getting good ideas!
What an awesome contest! Thanks so much – Good luck to everyone entering :o)
I have a question what if you don’t have a printer or dont have ink for a printer but you want the template?
Ask a friend to print it?
2 questions: 1. Can the pet be a hamster? 2. Can I use the Amazing world logo?
Hamster, sure. You can use any Ganz-owned logos.
I love to draw THANKS Ganz!!!!
Since it says that you can’t include company logos, does that mean that we can’t make it like the ten year magic w pup with the magic w’s?
Our logo is fine :) We just can’t use non-Ganz intellectual property.
Ok, thanks. I had an idea that includes a few magic w’s, and I wanted to make sure it was okay to enter it. ;)
Sally, when I go to the Sharecenter and I’m not logged in, there’s a submit an image button, so I click it, log in, and then the submit an image button is removed. I’ve tried clicking the submit an image button that applies to all galleries, but the 2017 Webkinz Day Pet isn’t an option. What should I do?