The Runway

[deboratibi]

**Last updated by Musical_Shoyru on January 14, 2024**

Welcome to The Daily Neopets' official contest, The Runway!

Dress to Impress will be used to create and share your entries. Once your best entry has been chosen, submit it through a Private Message to Musical_Shoyru. Please use the following entry form when submitting your entry for the current theme. Anyone with a TDN forums account may enter. Thank you to the owner of Dress to Impress for allowing us to run this contest! Due to the change of allowing prizes to be given out for contests The Runway will now offer prizes for the winner(s)!

The current contest theme can be found in the most recent "Enter the Runway #..." thread, which is found in Customization & NC Mall Chat>The Runway.

* To enter the contest and/or vote, you must be registered to The Daily Neopets Forum AND you must validate your account. *

Otherwise, you won't be able to post or send Private Messages. If you don't have an account, click here and follow the steps. It's quick and easy!

HOW TO ENTER:

• Create your entry at Dress to Impress (you can also use the HTML5 beta version of Dress to Impress). You are free to choose ANY pet and ANY items from the database, unless otherwise stated. (You may also choose to enter your own pets' outfit, if that's what you prefer, just make sure the entry can be viewed in Dress To Impress, and not just on your own user profile on Neopets.)
• Fill in the entry form below and send it to Musical_Shoyru via Private Message*.
• Make sure you are logged in/registered to The Daily Neopets Forum.
• If the image DTI provides isn't showing all the items properly (which happens quite frequently, like with Dyeworks items showing up the wrong colour, moving items not showing up in focus (or at all), and things like mist looking weird), you can send a screenshot instead. Here's a guide on how to do so.

ENTRY FORM: (PLEASE TITLE YOUR MESSAGE AS "THE RUNWAY #xxx", with the current round's number in the place of the x's")
Entry Name or Title:
Outfit Link:
Winning Character Story (optional, will only be revealed/shown when your entries places in the top three.):

TO GET YOU OUTFIT LINK;

• You'll go to the Dress to Impress website & login or create and account.
• After logging in you will be taken back to the main screen of Dress to Impress. You can either choose a color and pet species or type in your pets name to start creating you outfit.
• Press the orange Plan my outfit! button next to where you entered your pet's name if using your own pet or press Go if starting from scratch (picking a pet color & species).
• From here you'll get creative! Search for items using the search all items.... search bar in the top right corner. You can try things on, take them off, see their animation and all that good stuff.
• Once you're done creating your entry you name it. Hover your mouse over where it says Untitled Outfit and click. Then type in your entries name.
• After you've named your entry you'll hit save and your outfit link will show up in the URL Bar.

RULES:

• No voting for yourself!
• Do not try to manipulate the votes in any way, such as creating multiple accounts to vote for your entry. We can tell. 
• Don't re-enter an entry you've already won a trophy with in a previous round. (If you've entered that particular entry before without winning anything, you're free to enter it again, provided it fits the theme, of course.)
• Edits to your existing entry can only be made during the submission dates.
• Only use DTI or your own pets' outfit as your submission.
• No use of image editing programs.
• Do not use the trophy images unless you have permission from deboratibi, Nielo, Musical_Shoyru or the Customization Team.
• Banner images are available for anyone to use.
• We will be using NST times just to make it easier for everyone with different time zones.
• The contest will run once a month in two parts. Two weeks for submissions & entries (1st part) and two weeks for voting (2nd part). The Sunday immediately following the last day of the voting week will start the new round & announce the previous rounds winners.
• Parts will start on Sunday's for both Submission & Voting weeks. This means they will start on a Sunday and end on the second Saturday at 11:59pm NST. For example if the contest starts it's submission week on 1/14/2023 you would have until 1/27/2023 at 11:59p NST to submit your entry. Then the voting would open on 1/28/2023 and go until 2/10/2023 at 11:59p NST. Winner's would then be announced on 2/11/2023 and a new theme and round would start.

SUBMISSIONS:

• Entries are to be submitted to Musical_Shoyru in a Private Message (PM).
• Entry must fit the chosen theme. If not, you will be asked to change your entry.
• Unconverted pets may be entered!
• Only one pet per entry (per person) unless stated otherwise.
• If you would like to edit your submission, you can add it to the message you already sent, or send a new message.*

VOTING:

• Separate voting threads will be created for each round.
• Thread will be titled, "The Runway Votes #..."
• All submissions will be previewed and a poll will be created.
• Votes may only be cast in the allotted time.
• You can vote for as multiple entries, except your own. Voting for yourself will result in disqualification.
• If you do vote for multiple entries please try to only vote for 2-3, do not vote for every entry. 
• Should the entry could be only 3 we ask that you stick to voting for one entry.

WINNERS:

• 1st Place will receive a gold trophy, a NC item prize and will be featured on the main site sidebar.
• 2nd Place will receive a silver trophy & a NP item prize.
• 3rd Place will receive a bronze trophy & a NP item prize.
• All entries will receive a NP item participation prize

Special thanks to Shelley for allowing us to use her original trophy art!
Do not use these images unless you've earned them in a previous contest.

BANNER IMAGES:

  

  

USEFUL LINKS:

• Frequently Asked Questions
• The Backstage: Alternative Entries!
• Hall of Winners

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Nielo, Musical_Shoyru or Mouseykins for more information. Have fun customizing!

CURRENT THEME DETAILS

Check The Runway sub-forum for the most recent entering topic (title format: "Enter the Runway #XX!").

[care]

How exciting! I will definitely be participating. Thanks for hosting this. Can't wait to see all the entries :)

[jellysundae]

Ooh yes, exciting! I might give this a go :shiftyeyes_anim:

[Ian]

This is exciting! :D Can't wait to see all of the oufits~

[Mouseykins]

I am very excited for this! I've been wanting to do this for a while, but my schedule is too full right now. I'll definitely have to remember to enter every so often. :)

[jellysundae]

 

ENTRY FORM:

Entry Name or Title:

Outfit Image:

Animations Link:

Character Story (optional):

 

I'm working on an entry, but because I'm a novice at using the DTI site I have to ask newbish questions now because I don't know how to do things :* ...

 

So...what do you mean by animations link, what is that and how do I get to it? Is that the individual item things in the SWF links section? I am planning on having an animated item in my entry so I'm going to need this? Also, for the outfit image, this is going to be one of the links in the download/sharing section, right? But, which one and what coding option?

 

Sorry for being such a newb, but I've no idea what I'm doing, will there be some helpful instructions added to these contests, for people like me who can't find their bum with both hands and a flashlight? :shiftyeyes_anim:

[Spritzie]

You can find everything you need for the form on the Sharing tab:

 
The link for animations would be the one found under the Outfit Page part. That links to the outfit's page, which allows you to see the animations. Like this: Outfit page
 
I'm not sure what size Deb prefers, but the outfit image can be found on the same tab, likely the Medium image size. You would just copy the url and either paste the URL in the form, or use the Image option in the message to paste the URL and it will show the image.
 
As far as coding option, using plain is best if you use the easy editor for your posts, instead of seeing the actual code (The little toggle button is the top left grey light switch button), since you can just press the button that looks like a picture and paste the URL and it does the coding for you. If you just paste urls in the non-BBC code viewing version, it will automatically make it a link when you post/send a message.

[jellysundae]

Awesome, thank you very much, Spritzie :D I guessed wrong with the animations bit then. ><

[deboratibi]

Thank you, Spritzie!  :thumbsup:

 

Yes, the Medium size is preferred, but it's not something to worry much about since I can resize the images if necessary. What matters the most to me is the animation link (or outfit page)!

[Mouseykins]

There is just little over a week left to get your submissions in, so please do so! :)

[queen_hatshepset]

Cool, I want to enter into this! Thank you Scoobert_Doo for referring me to this link. I can't wait to do this and to see what the next theme will be!

[Mouseykins]

As I'm not participating this round, anyone who would like some help or assistance of any kind in preparing their entry can PM me here on the forums and I'll do my best to help you out. :)

[WeyrCat]

Oh cool! I don't think I've tried one of these before! Finals shminals (runs off to DTI)!

[Musical_Shoyru]

I don't quite understand this, do we use the Dress to Impress to dress a pet that we own with items we own, or do we pick random items and random pets?

[deboratibi]

I don't quite understand this, do we use the Dress to Impress to dress a pet that we own with items we own, or do we pick random items and random pets?

 

The purpose of using Dress to Impress is to have access to any pet and items you think will fit the selected theme best, since sticking with only what you have would be very difficult and limiting (at least for most people). Feel free to use any pet or items you wish, whether you own them or not!  :)

[Hert123]

Oh no! I totally missed this! Can I still enter in ~8 hours?

[deboratibi]

Oh no! I totally missed this! Can I still enter in ~8 hours?

 

Of course! You still have 2 days, actually.

[Hert123]

Of course! You still have 2 days, actually.

Oh great! I saw the banner on the TDN homepage and thought I was too late. Thanks!

[Mouseykins]

I'm glad the banner is getting some notice! :)

Looking forward to seeing all the entries for this theme! :) 

[LillytheGrundo]

So glad this is back!  I don't have time to enter this round but I'm looking forward to seeing all the entries. :-)

[happysparklez]

I might actually do this... even if I have no chance. :P Now just to figure out which species to dress up...

[Populifolia0Design]

Just sent my entry! :D

Can't wait to see what everyone else will do.

[deboratibi]

I'll be accepting entries until 12am NST, so if anyone still wants to enter, make sure to not miss the deadline!

[Hert123]

I think I can predict the top 3 winners of this Runway round! I was so close, but the customisations were really good!

[deboratibi]

Congratulations to our winners! I hope everyone had fun!

 

And now, for the new theme:

 

CURRENT THEME DETAILS

Current theme: Winter Ball

Entering period: Monday, November 30th - Sunday, December 6th

Voting period: Monday, December 7th - Sunday, December 13th

 

Make sure not to miss the entering period! I'll be looking forward to receiving your entries  :)