Kaldath and I have finally finished his prize for the overall Friday Night Fights win:

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To make it official, this is the LAST multi-character prize I will do for anyone, in the unlikely event I start doing character portraits as prizes again. No knock on Kaldath, who as always was a pleasure to work with, but it’s way, way too much work.

Anyway, I think it came out well in the end. Thanks to him for being so patient.

I’ve been working on the backlog of contest prizes for the last week or so, and have a couple that I completed but forgot to post about. So here goes! These items are all now available in the HeroMachine 3 Alpha.

First, MartianBlue’s great concept for a dragon helm, located in Headgear-Standard (Character Contest 34 – Cavalier!):

SpiderCow2010 requested a “generic city skyline” for the Background-Sky set for Character Contest 31 – Weapon:

I never heard back from TopHat about approving his prize for Caption Contest 70, so I am unilaterally declaring it done! For the life of me, I can’t remember why I have the first glove you see but regardless, it’s in now. Bonus! These are both in GloveLeft/Right-Standard:

Finally, Meg wanted a Kalidah from the “Wizard of Oz” books for her Caption Contest 35 victory, now in Companions-Standard:

For the next couple of days I will continue to work on prizes while Mark is fleshing out the Rifles set, and then I’ll have to move on to the Mech Edition.

Congratulations again to all the winners, and thanks as well for coming up with these neat prize ideas in the first place, then waiting so patiently for me to get to them.

With profound thanks to Mark Shute, I’m happy to announce that his ItemRight-Rifles set is now live in HeroMachine 3 and ready for outfitting your various dinosaur marines. Woot! More to come in this set, but we didn’t want to limit you unduly with the contest this week. Please do not make requests for Rifles yet, Mark wants a separate thread for that so he can keep track of it, once he’s all done with the ones he’s already got plans for.

Also, I’ve been working on prizes for past contests and have uploaded several, including the following:

Jack Zegler’s tank commander goggles and helmet from Character Contest 36, in Headgear-Military:

Power Ranger style armor for Aaron’s Caption Contest 76 win, in TopsMaleCoats:

Joshua’s Caption Contest 75 prize, a sci-fi visor in Headgear-Military:

SpiderCow2010 gives us a twofer, a complete muscular (but not Hulk-esque) female body, and then just clenched and tight female abs, both in BodyFemaleStandard:

Phew! In the “pending” category, meaning I have a version of the item out there for approval from the winner, are a generic city skyline for SpiderCow2010; a tiger bear thingie for Meg; big huge Alex Mercer claws for TopHat; and a flaring trench coat and button lapels for Doomed Pixel’s long-ago HeroMachine 2 win.

In the “working actively on it” category are MartianBlue’s dragon helm; Kaldath’s big Friday Night Fights scene; and Imp’s Friday Night Fights runner-up character sketch.

In the “I haven’t started on it yet” category are Rancid’s rose insignia; Lawrence’s Panama skyline; Bloodless Rose’s anime hair; DiCicatriz‘ tiny cherubic hippo; and Cliff’s large flower background.

Finally, there are still an awful lot of people I haven’t heard from yet one way or another on their prize. If you see your name here, please contact me (afdstudios@gmail.com or just leave a comment below) about what you want!

• Cory (Caption Contest 57)
• Fishpants (Caption Contest 58 and Character Contest 12)
• Frankie (Caption Contest 62)
• Bixlord (Caption Contest 63)
• Black Griffin (Caption Contest 77)
• ArtfulDodger (Character Contest 2)
• Violodion (Character Contest 5)
• Drummergirl (Character Contest 18)
• Brons (Character Contest 21 & 23)
• MercWithAMouth (Character Contest 24)
• Vigilante (Character Contest 32)
• Imp (Character Contest 33)
• Doomed Pixel (Character Contest 38)

Everyone up to MercWithAMouth is in danger of having their prize revoked or reassigned, so by all means speak up if you want yours!

I’m open to suggestions as to what to do with these unclaimed prize options, if you have any ideas let ‘em rip.

First, we have Imp’s reward for winning the semifinal round of Friday Night Fights, a “steampunk shield”, available in ItemRight-Shields:

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Next, we have a pair of Motocross-style pants by way of TheNate for winning Character Contest 26, available in Legwear-MaleStandard:

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I’ve got several other prize items out for approval from the winners, and am working on more. After that, it’s back to Fantasy Armor for a few more entries.

This fine steampunk gun-guitar hybrid is now available in HeroMachine 3’s ItemRight – Music, last item in the set. Thanks Anarchangel!

Kyle decided to go with the classic Viking helmet in Headgear-Standard for his Character Contest 29 victory:

Finally, Hakoon has approved his British-flag guitar, but it’s not actually available in ItemRight-Music yet, as I’m still working on the set. But this is what it looks like:

Thanks to those guys for picking great prizes, I hope everyone enjoys them. And if you’ve won a contest but I haven’t drawn your prize yet, never fear, I am working on them!