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!
I have tried submitting on three different devices. None of them worked with my account. I saw the blue submit button on it before I logged on, but as soon as I was logged on, the blue submit button disappeared. Also, under galleries when I try to submit, the 2017 Design a Pet Contest doesn’t show up. I hope this gets fixed because I was really looking forward to this contest!!! (I have already made like 5 entries, I’m just waiting to submit them.) Thank You!!!
The exact same happened to me. It appears before you log on, but not when you log on. I tried on my kindle fire, 3rd, and two different computers and the button to directly submit isn’t there when you are logged on, and the only categories close to the Design a 2017 Webkinz on the drop down menu are design a pet and design a Webkinz. I have made and apparently submitted 8 images. Are yo supposed to see your own uploads while browsing the ShareCenter? If so, I don’t see mine in the contest.
If you see it when you’re logged out, but not when you’re logged in, the account is the issue.
When i made a backup account to do as you said, it didn’t work :( whats going on?
Sorry, I’m not sure. Try contacting webkinzsupport@ganz.com
Is the only resolution to this problem to make a new account? I would really like to just have this account.
*3DS, not 3rd. Autospell.
That thing just happened! i was about to submit my pet, but i could submit in other galleries. help :(
Can I make my Webkinz a Rockerz? Or does it have to be a regular Webkinz?
No restrictions
So when i click “Submit Images” What Gallery do i share it to? I can’t find Webkinz Day Pet 2017 in the gallery chooser.
You may need to try a different browser or a different GanzWorld account.
Can you make several GanzWorld accounts for one webkinz user? If so, how do you do it?
Your GanzWorld account doesn’t have to be tied to your Webkinz World account. All you need is a valid email address to create a new account.
Thank you! It worked with this new user! (Im jcschultz)
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Okay, Sally, I submitted with the button that @onlyfaye was talking about, and I got the emails. Even though I can’t see other entries, you still got my entries, right? I got emails saying that you received them, and I definitely don’t want to create a new account on WKN for this when it should be working for all accounts, existing and new. I know you are doing what you can, but I spent hours on this for you guys, for my beloved Webkinz. Thanks, and try to fix this. It still doesn’t show my drawings in My ShareCenter, which worries me a bit…
If you received a confirmation email, then they are there. You won’t see the other entries until they are moderated. Yesterday was a holiday in Canada, so they’d only start being looked at today.
Thank goodness, that had me worried. My entries have been submitted, so hooray to GANZ!!! THANKS SO MUCH!!! ~9boogirl~
Okay, I know they are there now, but they still won’t show up in My Share Center and I couldn’t upload directly to the contest. My entries all say design a webkinz 2017, but I just submitted them to the design a pet category, so I’m not sure if they got submitted there or not :(
The Design A Pet category isn’t the correct category. There isn’t a way for us to transfer images from one category to another, and that category won’t be moderated.
Then what is the correct category?
“2017 Webkinz Pet”
Im working on some idea’s, and have @guitarsinge working on some, too. Good Luck EVERYONE!!!!!!!
Can I print this template and make it look like a Black Lab and make another one and make it look like a Husky template and color it in with my own idea?
can I make something kind of Christmas themed?
I submitted all 8 of my images on the share center when I clicked on the gallery, and I pressed the “Submit Image” button on the middle of the right side of the page, but there isn’t a light blue submit image button on the main gallery screen, and I checked My Share Center just now, about 12 hours after it said I had submitted my 8 images, and only previous uploads were shown. There has been multiple issues with this, as you can see in the comments, and the only thing that shows up when you try to rate an image is the template shown above, and they are all submitted by Mandy Webkinz on December 20th, 2016. Please, Please, pleeease fix this, @GANZ, I really really want to participate, and so do other members. Thanks for the cooperation!!! ~9boogirl~
On the far right of the page it says SUBMIT IMAGES. It has a little picture of overlapping photos? Click that. Good luck with the contest, 9boogirl! ~~~ onlyfaye
I think that’s what I pressed, is it working for you? I got the emails for all 8 of my images, but they aren’t showing in My ShareCenter. At the time, all I see in that category is Mandy’s templates :( Sally or Michael, can you take a peek at the ShareCenter to make sure everything is running well or whatever? Thanks in advance ~9boogirl~ And, @onlyfaye, good luck to you in the contest as well.
Hey, I don’t see the “2017 Webkinz Pet” category. I’ve tried going on a different account AND different browser but it STILL doesn’t work! Please help!
It is January first, 10:15 PM EST and i cannot find the Design A Pet 2017 gallery sharing