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!
Hey Sally Webkinz, are we allowed to use templates from previous contests besides the Halloween Design a Pet; like templates used for the 2015 Design a Webkinz contest, or any other templates that we can find using webkinznewz provided coloring pages?
Hey Sally or Micheal, I want to know can we enter more then once?
Yes, if the entering things are unique from its siblings (that sounded weird)
The only way I can see how to do this is to print it out, design a pet, take a picture of it using my phone, then load the picture onto the computer, and finally– upload the image to The Share Center. Is this right?
Well, if you have Microsoft paint, you could use that? (I’m saying it as a question because, 1) I don’t know if it works, 2) almost NO ONE is good at drawing with a mouse.
Hi, @sweetheart4148 and @otisbulldogmiddleton. What I did was created my own templates and pets, and then I scanned my designs onto my computer. You can scan with a printer or a computer app, I did it with a printer so I could make the files .jpegs. Then, I uploaded to the SC and got emails and everything :) If you have a printer, maybe try what I did, but all printers might not scan. Best of luck in the contest to both of you, ~9boogirl~
Yay!! I have already made 3. Made with extra hope and glitter, lol
Loving this contest! It hasn’t even technically started and I’ve made 4 pets! =) good luck everyone!!
Hi, the Share enter is not working for me at this time. What should I do to upload my photo?
Can I reenter some of the Webkinz ideas that I used for the 10 Years of Webkinz competition?
Oh I’m so excited! Last year this was so complicated, so I’m hoping it won’t this year.
Cool! Are you entering this contest then?
Okay, I have one more question, Can I use this 2017 template and put it in my folder and edit it? I tried to do some things with this template and they all are horrible. I want to make mine have the Black Lab base, but without it being black and using my own idea and design. Can I do that? Or is it not allowed.
Can we also use Metallic Pencils and Glitter Pens and maybe some effects on our designs? Can we color it on the internet too and just normal?
As it states above: “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 can do pretty much whatever you like. You don’t have to use a template. You can create your own template.
Oh, okay thanks! I am going to really have fun with this! I’m having Christmas break, so I will have time!
Um Sally? I can’t find the “Submit Button” in the Share Center. I can’t find it! I have already made a lot of pets. Why isn’t the button there?
The contest opens on January 1. If you still don’t have a button then, try a different browser. If that doesn’t work, you’ll need to create a new GanzWorld account.
Okay, I will do that when January 1st comes. I’ll tell you if it works or not. Thanks!
Nope! It’s not showing in the Share Center. It’s January 1st and I can’t find it! Does this mean I will have to get a new Ganz World account after all?
I’ve already started making pets. Expect a truck load full of pets from me XD
I did it the day the template came out! which was before this announcement was made.