About us
Welcome to the Design Shelter, where our goal is to find unwanted designs their forever home. Our concept works pretty similar to the saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”.
All designs are purchased with "Cred", or "C" for short, Cred is earned by donating designs to the Shelter, or creating art and writing info and stories for the characters already here.
Rules
General rules
- Using the account, you must follow TH’s rules at all times. We reserve the right to refuse service if these rules are not being followed.
- By using the shelter you agree that you could be communicating with any of the volunteers listed on our front page.This includes anyone you might have blocked.
- Deleted comments still show up in our queue. Do not delete comments or comment for things twice unless you are 100% sure it was skipped. For the same reason, if you need to cancel something or change something, please edit your original comment instead of making a new one.
- Please do not make comments or questions about our backlog, as it’s incredibly demotivating to our volunteers.
- If there’s any issues with any of our users, including volunteers, you can DM the shelter owner.
- You are not allowed to use the shelter on behalf of other users. You can adopt characters for others as gifts, please specify the other person’s username when doing so.
- If you DM us, please include a subject that makes it very clear what your DM is about. Comments are highly prefered over DMs!
- Dollmaker characters are not valid to earn cred unless they come with extra art.
- AI images, wether designs or art, will not be accepted at all.
- Any images that need a sensitive content warning should have one before they're submitted.
- Character profiles must be at least 1 month old in order to be donated. Freebie donations are excempt from this.
- You are not allowed to send characters that should be marked as freebie in as regular donations. Please make sure your transfer message mentions your intent of a free donation.
- The shelter closes temporarilly the first week of each month.
- Additional closures are possible at our discretion, and will be announced in the discord.
- during shelter closures, you are not allowed to send in charactsers for paid donations, or comment on characters requesting adoptions. Any non-freebie transfer will be rejected, and any comment will be deleted.
Getting characters
Characters must be "bought" using Cred. The amount of cred a character costs can be seen in the name of the folder they're in, and depends on how long they've been in the shelter. Most characters start in the 20c folder, and their price drops by 2C at the beginning of every month. This is to make it easier for older characters to find homes
To buy a character, comment on that character's individual profile and we will transfer them to you and deduct the Cred amount from your account ASAP.
FreebiesThe shelter also offers free characters. Once a month you can ask for a free character of your choosing from the 1C folder. Please specify that you're using your free claim when doing this, or we will deduct the C as normal.
HoldsYou can ask for a character to be held for up to one month if you need some time to earn cred first. You may hold one character at a time. If you do not get the C in this time, you are welcome to ask for the hold to be renewed up to three times, for 4 months total. If you fail to either claim or cancel your hold and it expires you will get a 1 month "cooldown" on your account in which you cannot hold a character.
When your hold expires, the character will be moved back to the 20C folder, to make them harder to snipe, and you can ask for your hold to be renewed. A character can be held for a total of three times by the same user.
Donating characters
Any donated character that can be traded will be rewarded C based on the following criteria:
+1C base price for every donation.
+2C for every image in the gallery.
+2C bonus for every 3rd image in a character's galery.
-Any C bonuses also desribed in the "donating art" section.
There's also penalties for characters and their images. These are the following.
-1C for unmarked gore/NSFW/sensitive content.
-1C for improper credit.
-2C if a character has been in a "random gift thread".
These can be applied multiple times if needed.
Which characters cannot be donated for C?
Your character cannot be donated for C if any of the following apply
- The character can’t be traded due to TOS restrictions.
- The character has ANY “freebie” or “gift” mentions in their transfer log.
- The character has ONLY dollmaker images, like Picrews or Waifulabs.
- Character’s whoseTH profile is less than a month old.
That said, you can still send us the character and it will be added to our freebie pool, but if you do so, you must mention "freebie only" in the transfer note, and you will not recieve cred.
Donating Art
Art is based on your own personal effort and time investment, not overall skill or quality. More cred is earned for pieces that took more time. You're also allowed to submit writing in the form of character profiles or character stories for cred under the same grading. Please note that if you do not tell us the time you spent on a piece in the description we will have to make an educated guess.
Please send in any art through direct submission to the character using the "submit" button on the topbar.
Base Earnings
1-2 Cred - Quick (Less than 1 hour)
2-4 Cred - Low (1-2 hours)
4-6 Cred - Medium (2-4 hours)
6+ Cred - Medium (4+ hours )
+2C for simple animations (blinks, wiggle animations, etc).
+4C minimum for bigger animations (run cycles, head turns, etc).
+2C for ref sheets (An unshaded, clean full-body without any warnings).
+2C for any art drawn for a character that currently has a warning triangle as avatar and that lets us remove said triangle (so the image must not have any content warnings).
+1C for images of a character that currently only has a small or blurry ref.
When using bonuses please make sure to let us know in the image description.
Donating Redesigns
You can earn cred by redesigning a character that's been in the shelter for a while, making it more appealing for adoption! Characters are valid for a redesign when they cost 6C or less.
When you find a character you want to redesign, check the comment section first. You must comment saying you're planning to give it a redesign. Once you finish your redesign and submit it, please reply to your comment stating that a redesign is pending. You are allowed a maximum of two "claimed" characters for redesigns. If you want to claim more, you have to either drop a previous claim or submit the redesign for it. Redesign comments older than 2 weeks are considered “expired” and are no longer valid.
Please send your redesigns by adding their art to the character using the "submit" button on the topbar.
Base earnings
4C on base redesigns
8C off-base redesigns
- Must be fullbody with no cutoffs.
- Your artwork must be of good quality. This mainly means that your image needs to be a properly sized .PNG.
- Your redesign must resemble the original, but be a clear improvement/enhancement of the design.
- Redesigns must still resemble the original character. If we feel like the redesign could be submitted as a whole new character, we might decline.
- Designs that are uncoloured, on a very small image, or picrews are usually considered a “free pass”; meaning we don’t care as much what the redesign is.
- If you are unsure whether your redesign needs changes, feel free to send it in to the Redesign-Approval channel in our discord!
faq
Q: Can I transfer my cred to someone else?
A: Yes, you can contact us anytime to transfer cred to another user! Just comment on our profile, or send us a DM.
Q: I donated a character, but I'd like it back.
A: That's usually okay! Usually, if it's not already sold or on hold, you will get the character transferred back to you, and the cred you earned from it will be deducted from your account. Issuing large amounts of returns is very inconvenient for us. If you ask for a large amount of returns you might get issued a warning.
Q: Can I make art/redesigns for a character I have on hold?
A: Yes, feel free. If you do make art for a character you want, it is recommended you put a hold on the character first. Please note that you cannot earn more C than the hold is for.
Q: There's a character in the shelter that I designed/used to own. Can I have it back?
A: Usually, any character will be returned to previous owners or designers with no questions asked. The exception to this is if the character has gained artwork or redesigns while in the shelter, or is already pending to another user. If these exceptions apply we might have further conditions for your return. Returns are generally considered freebies, and we do consider them to be treated as such by the person receiving them.
Q: Can characters from forum games be donated?
A: Characters from forum games can be donated only if the history clearly says “forum game” or similar. Histories with, for example, “freebie thread” will not be accepted, nor will “freebie”. This also goes for if it’s not the most recent history item.
Q: I found a mistake somewhere!
A: You're welcome to contact us! For issues relating to C counts and such, please DM us instead of posting in our comments. Make sure you have links to the characters that have been counted wrong!
Volunteers
Volunteers help keep the shelter running. Please remember that our volunteers are all just people, and to please be patient with them!
LoStInPrOgReS - nipah - Princess-TF-ofAzurel - -Rottweiler- - ToxicFriu
If you're interested in volunteering, check our discord! Volunteer applications open there periodically.
Our current owner is LoStInPrOgReS. If you have any concerns, feel free to bring it up to them!
Latest Bulletin
January updates
Hey all! From now on, all updates can be found on our discord, rather than here. This will be the last bulletin posted here, save for big updates.
We only have one thing to share right now, we have decided we will no longer be doing gachas. It has become too draining for us to do regularly, and as the 1C folder is almost empty, we do not feel it is needed. Monthly freebie claims are still available!
37 minutes, 21 seconds ago
Hi! adding Tay_Storage as my alt account ^^
1 day, 4 hours ago
Can you add Tax_Fraud as my alt acc? Thank you in advance ^^
4 days, 13 hours ago
hi! Philanthropy is my alt account :) can u please add it as an alt on my bank ? ^.^
6 days, 9 hours ago
Hi I have a questions about redesigns:
1. Can I redesign characters 6 or below if they have already been redesigned?
2. Can I redesign characters marked as freebie only?
6 days, 23 hours ago
Heyo! Just wanted to say we changed our username from ThatSpuder to ThatSpooder. Minor change because our brother wouldn't stop pronouncing Spuder like spuds (the potatoes)
8 days, 13 hours ago
Furthermore, what are the rules on writing? Can writing still be used for cred?
26 days, 14 hours ago
Do newly-redesigned characters always stay at 30c after redesign, or are they eventually shifted elsewhere?
26 days, 14 hours ago
They move down the folders as well every month! We're just trying to get through all of our backlog before we shift characters again! But yes, they also move! -Rottie <3
25 days, 1 hour ago
1 month, 1 hour ago
No changes have been made to the C system in a pretty long time.
If someone made a mistake, you're more than welcome to contact the shelter privately, but with the information provided we can't really take any action.
Please do not spread misinformation like this in the future, as it's confusing to other people.
14 days, 22 hours ago
1 month, 5 days ago
That's okay! We only really look out for the freebie markers nowadays anyways, but thank you for letting us know!
14 days, 23 hours ago