Character Contest 20: Costume crossover
Ordinarily I’d be hosting a Caption Contest this week, but with Halloween I just can’t resist. Your challenge for the week is a little more complicated than usual, because we’re going THREE DIMENSIONAL! I’m looking for the best HeroMachine recreation of an actual, real-life Halloween costume. You’ll need a photo of the costume in question, and then the HeroMachine recreation/update. You could try to go for an exact duplicate, or you could take the basic idea and make it better, whichever you like, but there has to be a real costume your design’s based on.
To review, here are the rules.
- Each entry must consist of two images, one of a real-world Halloween costume, and one of your HeroMachine reinterpretation/duplication of it;
- Both images for each entry must be posted to an online web site somewhere that I can get to (i.e. PhotoBucket, ImageShack, the UGO Forums, whatever);
- No more than five entries per person;
- All entries must be left as comments to this post, with links to the images in question;
- No editing in PhotoShop or whatnot, except for basic cropping (or putting the two images into one side-by-side, that kind of thing).
The winner will be decided next Tuesday by me, Jeff Hebert, Bald Guy, and will be awarded the choice of either a portrait of their face as a line drawing or any item of their choice, to be included with the HeroMachine 3 full release.
Good luck everyone!
October 27th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
The Reaper: Here is Me as the Grim Reaper and the Heromachine recreation - http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll49/Kaldath/Reaper.png
October 27th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Awww, dang, and I was all fired up for a caption contest.
(On an aside, I’ve spent the past few days reading all the way through your blog.)
October 27th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
I’ve noticed your comments hither and yon, PhoenixTallon, thanks for taking the time to poke around! Hope you’re having fun catching up.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Jeff, what if the character we are being for Halloween is copyrighted? (i’m “V” as in “V For Vendetta”)
October 27th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
I think it’d be all right in this case Remy.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
thanks. Just thought I’d make sure
October 28th, 2009 at 1:06 am
On a totally unrelated note… when are we going to get more female gear/body parts in the HM3? *puppyeyes*
October 28th, 2009 at 7:37 am
A couple of years ago, I actually designed my H’ween costume in HeroMachine. I took my HM printout with me to the fabric store to pick out material and patterns. I think the results turned out pretty well. And since I still have the pictures, it makes for a quick and easy contest entry.
http://www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~mshute/pirateCostume.jpg
And yes. I know how to use a sewing machine. Wanna make something of it?
October 28th, 2009 at 7:53 am
I’m not sure that mine would work for this, I was going as a member of Organization XIII but I’m sure that would be copright.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Some crazy costume off the internets (no it’s not me).
Here’s my reproduction of the Feminine Hygiene Ninja.
http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv97/MrVampire_photos/HeroMachine/femhyninja.jpg
October 28th, 2009 at 8:05 am
Female bits are probably the next big thing. I’ve got another artist working on the basic body template.
October 28th, 2009 at 11:18 am
costume off the internet
queen of hearts:
http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww82/mcpipeline/craiglist/LC8237.jpg
http://imgcash3.imageshack.us/img3/2966/hm3beta6.jpg
October 28th, 2009 at 11:46 am
goblin warrior:
http://www.spirithalloween.com/images/spirit/products/processed/00133058.detail.a.jpg
http://imgcash3.imageshack.us/img21/2034/hm3beta5w.jpg
October 28th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Does it have to be MY halloween costume?
October 28th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
No Imp, it can be anyone’s.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
@Mr. Vampire, That’s just wrong lol. Jeff, your going to have a hard time judging this one, Some of the entries are dead on with their real-world counterparts.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:05 am
@ martianblue: I totally agree with you…
October 29th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Hey, ya’ll! It’s been a while since I posted to the blog, but I’ve been watching!
Anyway, heres a link to my submission. Hope you guys enjoy; this girl’s costume was pretty neat! 
October 29th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Wow… I’m a moron… forgot to post the link *facepalm*
http://forums.ugo.com/showthread.php?p=621526#post621526
October 29th, 2009 at 10:33 am
I would have prefered to do the costume I was wearing but this will do…
http://www.halloweenexpress.com/vampire-adult-costume-p-18674.html
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4711/hm3beta3.png
October 29th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
evil clown:
http://images.halloweenexpress.com/sources/com/halloweenexpress/images/imagecache/408-768-fm60284.jpg
http://imgcash6.imageshack.us/img510/8306/hm3beta2.jpg
October 29th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/7200/a031966jpgmenr0.jpg
http://imgcash4.imageshack.us/img26/9355/hm3beta4.jpg
October 29th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Here is a “Guy” dressed as Zorro:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=151037&l=00537b740c&id=1815191475
October 29th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
This is my re-creation of Zorro:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=151237&l=7ba22b7cc4&id=1815191475
October 29th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Love the Guy Williams reference, Danny!
October 30th, 2009 at 12:48 am
@Gero: Thanks,and good luck with the contest!
October 30th, 2009 at 11:03 am
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Difnwn0Qqu4/SusOHZxXKAI/AAAAAAAAAHI/ptIprGDyJ10/s512/hm3-beta%284%29.jpg
http://www.tusd.k12.az.us/CONTENTS/news/images/may6.jpg
October 30th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Me as Poison Ivy from Batman
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=745564&op=1&view=all&subj=651292392&id=1270008930
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=2847940&id=651292392
October 30th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Me as Poison Ivy
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=2847940&id=651292392
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=745564&id=1270008930
October 31st, 2009 at 1:00 pm
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/The_Immortal_Phoenix/devilgirl.jpg
There’s one, I fully intend to use all five of my entries. XD
October 31st, 2009 at 2:58 pm
http://imgcash4.imageshack.us/img213/2966/hm3beta6.jpg
http://images.halloweenexpress.com/sources/com/halloweenexpress/images/imagecache/484-768-fm59491.jpg
November 1st, 2009 at 2:53 pm
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/41555320_c8a6997dfc.jpg
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Difnwn0Qqu4/Su3Zf_sk_yI/AAAAAAAAAIo/G999J4BmcSo/s512/hm3-beta.jpg
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:31 am
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=772399&id=1037680965
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Hope I’m not too late!
Here’s me a couple years ago at Hallowe’en:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_ljMRt8JxU2I/Su-gUEnOsjI/AAAAAAAAAI8/jgKSAcxSbVI/monkferatu.jpg
Here’s me in HM3:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_ljMRt8JxU2I/Su-gT0K1yoI/AAAAAAAAAI4/Rs6QtzmBhD0/Monkferatu.png
I went all out that year, shaving my head, buying white contacts, the whole shebang.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:47 pm
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/The_Immortal_Phoenix/PirateGirl.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/The_Immortal_Phoenix/copgirl.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/The_Immortal_Phoenix/Witchgirl.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/The_Immortal_Phoenix/genie.jpg
And there’s my other four entries.
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
[...] want a picture of me up on the internet! — I appreciate everyone who made an entry into our last costume contest, which asked you to put up a HeroMachine image of an actual Halloween costume. In addition to the [...]
November 8th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
So, when is somebody going to release the new gear and crap from the latest contest? it’s been forever