Animus Character Casting Competition Winter 2014 successfully ended!

Once again we organised a Character Casting Competition and one lucky winner would get a personalised story in one of our upcoming books!

CONGRATULATIONS to our glorious winners!

PRIZES:
1st place: NOMO (Jube Jube) (Courtney Ross) (196 votes) - Main character in a short story, published around Christmas 2015 AND a drawing of the winning pet (published here and sent via email)
2nd place: NEWALI (Julia Hayes) (194 votes) - Secondary character in short story, published around Christmas 2015 AND a signed copy of THE FAT ADVENTURES OF MEOWHAUSEN
3rd place: CLEO (Sylvie Bergeron) (183 votes) - A signed copy of THE FAT ADVENTURES OF MEOWHAUSEN

SPIRIT AWARDS:
As per our custom, we also selected a couple of winners from those who did not make the finals, as well. And since the competition was so extremely popular and all contestants worked so hard to get their pets noticed, we decided, this once, to take not just the top three finalists to Animus, but the top FOUR!
Surprise Award: THOREEN (Doreen Kimba)
Writer's Choice Award: SIMBA (Jane Hammond)
Illustrator's Choice Award: ABBY ROAD (Sandy Wuerch)

Our next competition will be held in spring 2015—so keep your eyes open!

You can see the Competition posts here:

First Round - Qualification and Top 7 on Likes

Final Round - Voting and Top 3 on Comments

The Winners

Meet Raven

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Meet Raven the dog, another real-world pet, who won the Animus Characters' Casting Competition of April 2014.

Hailing from a wealthy family, Raven was plagued by uncertainty. On the one paw—she had everything she could possibly want: the best recreation, education and a guaranteed cushy future and yet… something was amiss.

She found out that she possessed the power to feel the moods of others and even locate folks through their feelings. The reason why, since puppyhood, she could not shake the feeling that something was wrong, was because something WAS very wrong. Her uncle had corrupted her father’s once-noble clockwork toy factory and elevated himself, by trampling on the rights of others.

Having run out of options, but determined to make a change, she sets off on a defiant quest to Angelholm, to bring justice to her home town of Frisbee. She does just that, but not at all in the way that she had expected.

Meet Fabio

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Meet Fabio the cat — one of the real-world pets who won the Animus Characters' Casting Competition of April 2014 and who will be the hero of his own story!

Fabio’s alter ego on Animus, starts out life as a vain princeling. Although this Fabio refuses to follow in the paw-tracks of his belligerent father and become a warlord, he remains an aloof and narcissistic playboy. Eventually, he falls for an unusual girl and must learn the meanings of love and honour, to keep his young family safe from his father’s ever-waxing wrath.