Petz Life

extending this through the weekend! so closing on the evening of Sunday the 21st.

really great entries so far!!

At first I was trying to think of *my* childhood favorites, and then one of my kids fav shows came on and one of the characters was Marty the Party Cat - so I thought, we've got new palette colors, lets hex that!
This uses Mazzew's Neons2 palette and I tried to utilize the "new" transparency effect for the hair and the tail ball.

I played the clarinet throughout middle and high school growing up so I decided to hex a clarinet toy based off of the snake-charming flute. It has custom clarinet sounds that I was so excited to get to work properly! I also did my best to animate it to move back and forth while playing.






*disclaimer: not all petz like the clarinet

I don't have a website right now, but I'll add this to the server downloads if anyone is interested in having it!

Some explanation is probably needed here, when I was little long before the days of spotify, my dad used to be quite the music pirate. Before torrents even, he would acquire music from shady folks on the internet.
This set of 5 CDs, which I still have, are the result of my making "songlists" for disney albums I wished existed, curated to my idea of which songs I liked best, my dad then torrented all the music for me and burned it to CDs, I made the covers myself, very likely in paint shop pro, they even have the song lists on the back but I didn't photograph that part, and my dad dutifully printed them and put them in the jewel cases for me.
Listening to these CDs on repeat is one of my fondest musical memories, so I made a palette based on their covers, and made some baby cali lynxes. Babies because I was only little myself, these two are no-grow, to show off the colours best.

Vinyl Record Dog with "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" Belinda Carlisle Framed Record Toy

My entry is inspired by vinyl records, which is what is supposed to be on the dogs back (I hope I achieved the look of them with paintballs.) but I also had to include a toy to go along with it. This song is one of a few that reminds me of being a child playing petz, scrolling through websites like APKC and downloading all the toyz I could find! A musical memory very close to my heart. When hung on the wall the record will play a snippet of the midi version of the song “Heaven is a Place on Earth” by Belinda Carlisle.

There were so many great entries for this contest!! But we have our top 3 placements:

@SWKManda's Heaven is a Place on Earth Dog & Album

@xoops's Disco Party Calico

@buck's Baby Bizzy


Each of you can request a hex from my archive or a bred litter from Harry! Just DM us on Discord.

And for everyone who entered hehe:

Ooh yay! Thank you so much and congrats to Manda and Buck! and everyone else who entered, all the entries were so good, I had a hard time picking my faves <33