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"Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:04 pm
by Acherontia
The time is approaching, Petopia! Mania is searching for a new mascot for Petopia, and we have enough (confirmed! :D ) time to campaign for our favorite choices!

What is this?

Petopia needs a new mascot. For the purposes of fun and perhaps drawing in some new site members, we have the chance to do multiple mock political campaigns for our favorite mascot choices.

What do we do?

We post artwork showing our favorite mascot, in the form of banners, signatures, avatars and so forth. We add comments to our thread posts indicating our support for our choices, and make and distribute videos (Youtube etc) imitating political candidate advertisements. Try making a video promoting your favorite candidate, in the style of a political campaign. Make up reasons why yours would be the best. Do a mock slander video against one of the opponents--"...But did you know the Strider Clutchmother's dark secret?" Link back to Petopia whenever possible! I'll list each candidate in the 2nd post, with links of all their promotional material, once it starts coming together!

What will this accomplish?

We'll have fun, first and foremost. It is quite possible that Mania has already picked a mascot, and so this is just to enjoy ourselves and add a little extra flavor to the forums for awhile. It is also to potentially draw new people to Petopia. Use your signatures on other forums (examples below) showing your support for a certain pet, and with Petopia's web address noted in the sig. People may see the sig and become curious, and visit the site to check it out. New members are good!

What should I post here?

Post any campaign artwork, and requests for art for a specific pet choice. I (and other members, I'm sure!) will be happy to draw up avatars and sigs for various pets. I'll list them in the first & second post with credit to each artist, and then people can use them while out & about! Post links to any promotional material you create--be it art, videos or other threads. DON'T post your choices for mascot, unless it's to request art--if you just want to discuss potential mascots, and actually possibly affect the choice of one, post that here. This thread is *only* for the mock campaign-related stuff! :)


So! Here's some starter sigs & avatars from me and others; I've added a video campaigning for my own favorite, Gezzarak. Remember, folks, this is all in fun, and probably won't affect the choice in the end. So keep it light and keep it fun :D

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By ShadowAkz:

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By Ket Shi:

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Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:04 pm
by Acherontia

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 12:30 pm
by Royi
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My vote

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 12:58 pm
by Kalliope

CHITTER
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Homegrown Petopian <3


Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 1:52 pm
by Lisaara
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My vote. ^_^

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 3:18 pm
by GormanGhaste
Request for Nix artwork: "Nix puts an end to the competition" :)

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 3:24 pm
by Litlemouse
GormanGhaste wrote:Request for Nix artwork: "Nix puts an end to the competition" :)
Can do! You'll have to wait until later though, I'm busy atm :/

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 3:58 pm
by Aeladrine
Jessibelle wrote:Image

My vote. ^_^
Oh, I agree with this!

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 4:46 pm
by Kaswryn
Edit 2: New Karoma and Gezz banners at the bottom and added text to the Ainamiss one.

:) Finally got around to making a few banners since it looked like fun:
http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab89 ... ndJaf2.png
Gezz and Karoma is my personal favorite, two pets that were originally glitch tames that got put back in legitimately through hunters' love for them (and relentless whining, begging, pleading) :lol:

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab89 ... erSyn2.png
One just for Karoma since Gezz already had one of her own already.

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab89 ... rMania.png
And one that I just couldn't resist =3

Might remake these to clean them up a bit and/or make new ones.

Edit: Wasn't really happy with the quality of the Gezz and Karoma one, so I made a new one.
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Edit 2 (cont.)- Wasn't happy with my Karoma only one so I made a new one ;)
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And I made a Gezz only one as well since I was having fun.
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And Ainamiss with text =3
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Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 4:48 pm
by Azunara
I love that promo video.

But did you know...?

Sporebats don't have faces.

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 3:59 pm
by Ket Shi
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Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 4:03 pm
by TygerDarkstorm
Just thought I'd throw out there that the Sholazar Trio sig should read "The Sholazar Trio deserve to be Petopia's mascots" and not "deserves". Sorry, I'm weird about grammar like that. >_<

Anyway, as you can probably tell from the sig I've been sporting for a while, I think the blue sporebat or Ainamiss should win. :P

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 4:16 pm
by GormanGhaste
other slogan ideas:

Chitter: Native spider will work for you!
Batty for Sporewing
Ainamiss: Hive Queen for Mascot--resistance is futile.
Mazzranache: Family man for family values.

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 4:23 pm
by GormanGhaste
script idea for Sporewing's rebuttal to the Gezz video (which I loved, by the way!):

I may not have a face, but at least I'm not two-faced. Vote for a candidate without warped morals. Sporewing for Mascot--the honest choice.

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 5:49 pm
by Royi
Sporebat! Its the best pet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvvNGeHHME

seriously !

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 5:52 pm
by Litlemouse
TygerDarkstorm wrote:Just thought I'd throw out there that the Sholazar Trio sig should read "The Sholazar Trio deserve to be Petopia's mascots" and not "deserves". Sorry, I'm weird about grammar like that. >_<
Yeah, I felt something sounded wrong about it but I couldn't figure out quite (or I was too proud/lazy to XD)

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 6:03 pm
by TygerDarkstorm
No worries, sometimes that kind of grammatical inflection is hard to catch when you make it. :)

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 6:05 pm
by lilatha
I still can't pick either Sporebat or Wind Serpent :c
Can my campaign cover both? Or should they be two different ones?

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 6:28 pm
by Litlemouse
lilatha wrote:I still can't pick either Sporebat or Wind Serpent :c
Can my campaign cover both? Or should they be two different ones?
Do whatever you like. I made Jessi's Sholazar Trio for 3 in 1 campaign.

Re: "Official" Petopia Mascot Campaign Thread

Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 4:33 am
by Acherontia
Litlemouse wrote:
TygerDarkstorm wrote:Just thought I'd throw out there that the Sholazar Trio sig should read "The Sholazar Trio deserve to be Petopia's mascots" and not "deserves". Sorry, I'm weird about grammar like that. >_<
Yeah, I felt something sounded wrong about it but I couldn't figure out quite (or I was too proud/lazy to XD)
It's actually a singular group, although British English and American English may differ in how to treat that. In American, at least, saying "the trio deserves" should be correct :P