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Sjwkitt2000
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Posted: 10/20/2018 at 5:21 PM
Post #11
Aspen Faelora / Autumn Leaves Faelora
what they might look like:
6-vis
Sjwkitt2000
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Posted: 10/20/2018 at 5:22 PM
Post #12
whups! wrong spot! SORRY!
Scathreoite
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Posted: 5/26/2019 at 11:32 PM
Post #13
TL;DR
Theme Design Contests are to design a colour set. You are not designing a singular pet, or a pair of pets.
The trait(s) you pick for your submitted design should be selected for displaying how the colours you've chosen for your design's palette work together; they are not considered as part of the design submission itself, as themes have random traits when encountered or created.
Only post one single colour set for each species- if you post more than one it is grounds of Disqualification from Consideration.
You can post multiple images of your designed colour set using different traits, but you cannot have multiple images of the same species that have differing colour slots (eg. Male with red c1, female with green c1). Having two images of one species each with different colour slots counts as two designs.
Eg, these nixi have different EC and G3 colours, and are thus would be considered Different Theme Submissions
Preferably fill all the colour slots.
Every single one of the 12 colour slots should be filled. If you want white make it very very slightly off-white in that hue, even if it's just a minute amount. That demonstrates that it was a deliberate colour choice.
If the pet is a species that doesn't use AC1 and AC2 in any traits, you could potentially leave them blank, but may as well make a guess at a colour that might work.
This one is not a necessity and will not disqualify a submission, but if the design is chosen as a theme it can leave a theme open to very noticable colour swing on any slots left as FFFFFF (Pure White)
The designs cannot be images you have uploaded via a site such as Imgur or Photobucket, they must use the Sylestia Pet Image Code. Not using the Sylestia code disqualifies the entry from consideration. There are guides- including this very thread- that cover how to get the image links if required.
Pay attention to the End Date- you can change your entries at any time up until then, but shouldn't after.
Contest threads remain Pinned- and thus, Open- until Krinadon and Faiona have delivered the prize PMs towards the end of the Fest the Contest was for. They remain Pinned to remind them that that has not yet been done, not so people who are late can post.
Entries submitted after the end date are unlikely to be considered.
Edited By Scathreoite on 7/29/2024 at 9:32 PM.
Scathreoite
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Posted: 9/30/2019 at 8:36 PM
Post #14
Contents: Basic Information and rules
What not to do
What are the designs for?
How should you do it?
What happens once you've got your Theme?
Picking traits
Examples of Thread Submissions, Themed Pets and their PB projects
How to get your image, Visual Guide
Glossary- what do those words mean?
Complete list of pets in Alphabetical Order
TL;DR post
On using existing pets as theme designs
On using existing pets as theme designs
When coming up with designs for themes, there may be pets that currently exist whose colours you think would make a good theme design.
In this case, the pet in question cannot in any way be someone else's' design.
For example,
Someone asked us about using extant pets as theme design submissions/ the basis of theme design submissions, as we don't cover that in the guide (yet).
Consider the following categories:
Wild-caught non-themed
Technically fine, best if colours are altered for the design submission so all colour slots work together as a proper theme design
Dyed wild-caught non-themed (dyed solely by the player)
Okay
Dyed wild-caught non-themed (dyed by a different player)
Not Allowed
Pets generated via Essence/Regen (by the player)
Okay
Pets generated via Essence/Regen (by the player + other players (designed/ mostly designed/ partially designed by other users, but generated by the player)
Not Allowed
Pets generated via Essence/Regen (by a different player)
Not Allowed
Project pets (from projects belonging solely to the player)
Okay
Project pets (from projects by the player + other players (a collaborative project, or projects where other players designed or had input on the design of the project colours))
Not Allowed
Project pets (from projects belonging another player)
Not Allowed
Random offspring (non-pb, non-project) that the player has bred
Technically fine, though as with wild non-themed pets you'd likely want to tweak colours
Random offspring that other players have bred
Not Allowed
Pets bought from other players
Not Allowed (maybe if it's wild-caught, unthemed, and undyed, though again you'd want to edit it)
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Quoting Krinadon:
"If one were to submit a Themed Design into one of our official contests, it is always assumed and expected that they are the original creator/owner of that design. So that would exclude any design submitted that was based on another players' pets/designs.
However, if you submit a design based on one of your own originally created pets, then that would be fine.
In regards to pets that have been traded or randomly created (wild), I just would still apply the same rule. Do you own it? Did you create it (or was it created for you)?
Basically, if there's any question that someone else can lay claim to the design, then don't submit it."
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There might be other categories we haven't thought of, but this should give a guideline that you can use
Edited By Scathreoite on 11/16/2019 at 11:55 PM.
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