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 am not certain if this is the appropriate place to ask, but one of my submissions had somewhere between 58-100 votes last night with about a 9/10 average rating, but today it has a 3/10 average with 237 votes but only approx. 127 views? I suppose my bigger concern is, is the winner based off of community ratings or staff selection? Also, is it legitimate for a submission to have more votes than views? Thank you for your time!
The votes do not factor into the decision of the judges. It may not be registering views from mobile devices, or repeat visitors.
Thank you. ^_^
@raripie, I was going to ask the same question. It appears that some people might be repeatedly up-voting their own entries and down-voting others’ to intentionally skew the votes. :( Glad to hear that the votes aren’t factored in. Btw…your designs are terrific!
Aww, thank you!! ❤️ Yeah, I have to think the same.. Oh well, though.. :P
Excuse me Raripie, I have a question: http://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com/forums/topic/webkinz-general/page/244/
Some of us go through and just admire the work rather than voting on it too. I personally don’t vote on them unless there is one that REALLY catches my eye and then I vote with a 10. ;)
Same. I usually don’t vote, but if there is a pet that I believe is super creative and it catches my attention, I give it a ten.
One more question, why are some people’s posts in red text, below?
Fixed :)
Earlier I made 3 designs. The first one got accepted/moderated, whereas the other two did not. I just noticed a few minutes ago that this said computer generated images are not allowed. Does that include copy and pasting a previous Webkinz’ markings (Love Puppy, Lovely Leopard, etc for example) to use in my own design? (Like, for example using the Lovely Leopards heart/spotted pattern for my, for example, Valentine’s Day themed Webkinz, inspired by the Lovely Valentines Webkinz already made?)
I just made one its so cute! good luck everyone!
I can’t submit for a week now :(
Try using the link above. It had worked for me instead of going to the sare center. It could also be your computer.
I do not see Webkinz Day Pet 2017 as an option when I am trying to upload my Webkinz designs.
I was just wondering what would happen if somebody submitted their pet design and then somebody else afterwards submitted an almost identical pet design? Would the judges really liked the idea, would they go with the idea of the person who submitted their pet first or would they go with the version they designed more? or like are their rules for
*If the judges really liked the idea, not would
Hi, DuncanNut08! I was looking through the gallery today and noticed that you and I have designed very similar balloon dog entries. I wanted to assure you that I didn’t notice this until today, and I apologize if you feel that I copied you. It is a pure coincidence that we both came up with the same idea. :) By the way, your balloon dog and all of your other entries are fantastic! Great work! Best of luck to you in the contest! ☺§ ♥
haha they are very similar, i suppose great minds think alike. Thank you so much, your designs are also very cute, and i wish you the best of luck, escpecially you’re moonberry moose!
Hey Sally Webkinz, are we allowed to use templates from previous contests besides the Halloween Design a Pet; like any templates that we can find using webkinznewz provided coloring pages?
Old templates, new templates.. no templates.. whatever you want.
She said you can use what ever you want.
Thanks!
To get things straight, you have to print the template out and DRAW, with your hand, what design you want it to look like and you basically send it to webkinz? PLEASE get back to me on this one! Thank you so much! :)
That is one method, yes.
I really hope I will be able to submit them!!!