🎨 Character designing is Planet Xaoc's primary activity! You can do so once you have obtained a Make Your Own (MYO) slot, which will be elaborated on the following segments:

🎨 Methods on obtaining a Make Your Own slot:

• Freebies via raffles hosted here onsite.

• Purchasing via onsite sales.

• The official discord server's advertisement channels.

🌈 You are allowed to commission an artist to design your Planet Xaoc character, as long as they follow the design guidelines and are open to potential corrections along the way. Please specify the value of the commission and include an image link of the proof of purchase receipt on the submission's comments section. We will add this monetary value to your character's masterlist once approved.

🎨 Your submission will be attended to within 7 days, you may ping an admin if it has exceeded that. You may request an admin to cancel (send back) your draft via the discord server's help channels, or the onsite helpdesk.

🌈 Your design must adhere to the following standards:

• Abides by the species intended:  ANATOMY  and  TRAITS

• Xopas must have the smaller form. Xaeco, Xatli, and Xulap can just be the base form. You may add other forms in the future via the Redesign feature.

• File type must be in .PNG or .JPG/JPEG only.

• File size must be no larger than 2MB and 1500 x 1500 pixels.

🎨 Important Reminders:

• The design should not disrespect nor harm pre-existing characters, property, copyrighted media, cultures, and persons. The design should never reference a real life person nor harbor a bigoted, military/cop propaganda, hateful, and related themes.

• The design should not look like a 1:1 duplicate of a masterlisted Planet Xaoc character. If the design is based off of a character (your own original creation or from an existing IP) it must follow  Character-Based Character rules and guidelines noted below. 

🌈 To get started, go to your profile page, USER > MYO SLOTS (then pick a slot) > SUBMIT MYO > CREATE REQUEST which will generate a MYO design draft:

❤️Afterwards, you have to go through each tab with a ❌ symbol and fill it out:

🧡 COMMENTS — Used to specify item usage specification and important note to admins if necessary. If the image is a commissioned work, please include an image link of the purchase/receipt proof of this transaction! So we can add it to the masterlist's official monetary value and mark that this design is allowed for resale if the owner desires to in the future. Click the SAVE button after.

💛 MASTERLIST IMAGE — Here you will upload your new design image and use the cropper tool. You will then be asked to fill out credits. Use the DESIGNER box if they have an account-onsite. Use the DESIGNER URL box if they are not on-site. Filling out the ART TYPE boxes is only for collaborative works. Click the SAVE button after.

💚 ADD-ONS — Here you will include items you have used in your inventory. If there is none, do not select anything and simply click the SAVE button after.

💙 TRAITS: Species & Transformation — Pick the species of your design. Afterwards, the "Transformation" dropdown refers to the finishing of your image. Base Form applies to submissions (of Xaeco, Xatli, Xulap) with only the regular form. Use "Full Form" for Xopas or if your submission has both regular and power form.

💜 TRAITS: Character Rarity — Throughout your trait list, pick the option that your character has that is considered rarest. For example: if you have 5 Mystical + 1 Sacred trait, pick the Sacred option. If you have any Old Gen traits, always choose the Old Gen option.

🤎 TRAITS: Traits — This is where you list all your traits, including COMMON ones! Click "Add Trait" for a new bar. Make sure to double check that you are using the correct term for your chosen species.

🤍 TRAITS: Extra Info — Do not fill this in! Admin will use this only if necessary, typically for those using the ELEMENTAL trait specification only.

🎨 Once you have clicked SAVE on every tab, double check your work! Afterwards, go back to the STATUS tab, then click on the SUBMIT REQUEST button, which will forward it to the admin queue:

🌏 CBC stands for "Character Based Character", which means a design's appearance is explicitly inspired from a pre-existing character's design. The source material can be from yourself (such as your existing original characters), television series, movies, books, video games, and similar available media. If you ever wanted to have a Planet Xaoc design based on a favorite character of yours for fun, this is the place to learn more!

⚠️ Admin Notice: Hello, ocularguts here — Please allow some understanding and patience with me on this regard. ^_^; These guidelines were introduced this June 2025, so some designs may have slipped through the cracks in the past (due to my own lack of awareness that those submissions were based on an IP).  These approved submissions will not receive any form of punishment nor strike, but their entry will have a note that they cannot be traded, gifted, nor used for ARPGs until redesigned to comply to the new rules. New submissions moving forward must apply these as well. Thank you so much!

🌱 The following terms are non-negotiable, so please exercise caution if you are submitting a CBC-design! Those proven to be breaking rules will lead to a permanent ban. Planet Xaoc designs that fall under this category have strict rules in order to firmly respect copyright and intellectual property (IP) at all times, as well as avoiding complications that may arise from "duplicate"-esque scenarios if the source material is based on an original character. 

🌏 Approved CBC-designs can never be sold nor vouchered (regardless of how much this design is redesigned away from the source media). These should never be involved with any exchange of finances. Admins and guest artists cannot make CBC-designs for official sale nor free raffles as well.

🌱 CBC-designs can only be traded or gifted. Commissioned artworks will not add to their onsite masterlisted monetary value, given that this detail only applies for potential resale or voucher - which all CBC-designs are prohibited from.

🌏 If a CBC-design is based on an original character, you must own both designs. If trading or gifting away, both must be included in the process and the new owner is fully informed of the CBC-design's existence and rules.

🌱 Below showcases guidelines on Character-Based-Character approvals. This design by Twin is a Xaeconian character based on "Latias" from a widely known IP called "Pokémon" — a Japanese videogame, broadcasted series, and toyline franchise:

🔴 Rejected: The submitted design is too alike to the media source. It uses a marking that symbolizes the source character. The body type and pose is easily recognizable.

🟡 Uncertain: The submitted design is more Xaeconian now which is good, however, the markings and limb-shapes are still easily recognizable from its source and is likely to be rejected.

🟢 Approved: The submitted design still retains the colors and likeliness of their source, but now has unique flavoring by the artist: visible stripes, sparkles, floating particles, and relocated facial markings.

🌏 Approval Advice: Removing isolated key markings based on the source, adding unique colors and new markings, multiplying eyes/limbs/tails, introducing opposite flavors (cute source but horror elements on the CBC-submission, water source but frozen and snowy on the CBC-submission, etc).

⭐ Redesigns refer to updating a Planet Xaoc character's masterlist image. Adding new traits require items or purchase, while removing traits will be reserved via the STATS notes tab.

🍪 If you plan on editing an image that you did not draw yourself,  ask for permission from the artist first!

⭐ The rule of thumb for redesigns is to keep it recognizable from the original/legacy masterlist image. We reject submissions that has potential to become its own standalone design or overtly overhauled.

🍪 We will be using Xaeco #256 as an example:

🔴 Potential causes of REJECTED submissions 🔴

❌ Redesigns with over 50% of the appearance changing will be rejected.

❌ Redesigns with over 50% of the colors added or changed will be rejected.

❌ Redesigns straying away entirely from its original theme will be rejected.

🟢 Samples of APPROVED submissions 🟢

✅ Large hueshift jump — but keeps all markings and silhoette the exact same.

✅ Simplifying, or addition of several new details, while staying in range of its original palette.

✅ Gently saturating or desaturating the design's overall colors.

✅ Adding new colors, markings, patterns, and mild silhoette changes — but the rest are untouched and near identical to the original design.

⭐ To get started, go to your PROFILE PAGE > USER (below the bio box) > CHARACTERS (then pick a design) > SETTINGS > UPDATE DESIGN > CREATE REQUEST which will generate a redesign draft:

❤️Afterwards, you have to go through each tab with a ❌ symbol and fill it out:

🧡 COMMENTS — You must specify trait changes here and other redesign notes that admins must know. If applicable, you must note any item uses and monetary value (alongside a screenshot of the receipt) of the art piece if it is commissioned. Lastly, turn on the IP-switch if the redesign is a CBC.

💛 MASTERLIST IMAGE — Here you will upload your redesign image and use the cropper tool. You will then be asked to fill out credits. Use the DESIGNER box if they have an account-onsite. Use the DESIGNER URL box if they are not on-site. Filling out the ART TYPE boxes is only for collaborative works. Click the SAVE button after.

💚 ADD-ONS — Here you will include items you have used in your inventory. If there is none, do not select anything and simply click the SAVE button after.

💙 TRAITS: Species & Transformation — Pick the species of your design. Afterwards, the "Transformation" dropdown refers to the finishing of your image. Base Form applies to submissions (of Xaeco, Xatli, Xulap) with only the regular form. Use "Full Form" for Xopas or if your submission has both regular and power form.

💜 TRAITS: Character Rarity — Throughout your trait list, pick the option that your character has that is considered rarest. For example: if you have 5 Mystical + 1 Sacred trait, pick the Sacred option. If you have any Old Gen traits, always choose the Old Gen option.

🤎 TRAITS: Traits — This is where you list all your traits, including COMMON ones! Click "Add Trait" for a new bar. Make sure to double check that you are using the correct term for your chosen species. Delete any unused traits.

🤍TRAITS: Extra Info — Do not fill this in! Admin will use this only if necessary, typically for those using the ELEMENTAL trait specification only.

🌈 Once you have clicked SAVE on every tab, double check your work! Afterwards, go back to the STATUS tab, then click on the SUBMIT REQUEST button, which will forward it to the admin queue:

❤️ Want to design a Planet Xaoc character to be sold or donated to the community? You've come to the right place! All art skill levels and styles are welcome, as long as they are polished and colored fullbodies. We aim to go through the entire list of applicants in a slow chronological order!

🧡 You must be 18 years old and above to participate as per Paypal's Terms of Service, this is non-negotiable! Guest Artists can create designs in large batches for flatsale, auction, or offer-to-adopt (all profits will go to you). Meanwhile, Design Donors create singular designs to be raffled to the community (and will be rewarded one MYO slot, with the same rarity & traits you have used). 

💛 Once accepted, ocularguts will contact you with further instructions. You have 45 days (one month and two weeks) alotted for the designing process. Deadline extensions are allowed on a case to case basis, but entirely depends on the current progress made.

💚 You must keep all of your concepts and designs completely private, until you are given the explicit permission to post. This is to ensure the approval and encoding into the website process is correct!

🌺 APP FORM: PX GUEST & DONOR ARTIST 🌺

💙 Please note that if you are not in the discord server, unforunately we may have to skip your application due to being unable to have a reliable means of contact with you. If you have left the server then returned later, and wanting to apply again: You may contact an admin to re-check your GA queue line anytime.

💜 For completed GA/Donor artsists, you may re-apply once your design has been publicized for raffle, sale, etc! Your queue line will be moved to the the last / most recept applications.

🤎 Please keep in mind that this is a job opportunity! Please do not apply if you are unable to follow through, as there is a queue of other artists deserving the spotlight as well. Thank you!