Character Design Challenge #476– The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Part 2

When I first saw The Wizard of Oz movie as a kid, it scared the living crap out of me. It was not until years later that I fell in love with the cast of characters.

I have wanted to do a series updating the characters in a darker style for years. Think Oz with a Beetlejuice meets Pan’s Labyrinth vibe. Just use your imagination and have fun.

Your challenge this week is to reimagine the Scarecrow

The winning entrant will receive a HM3 version of their characters rendered by yours truly.

The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges:

Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters.No characters based on Official RPG NPC's ( Non-Player Characters ). Please keep all submissions PG13. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered in a contest before. If you aren’t certain, don’t enter it, because I’m not going to go back through all of the contests and check.

All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack, Deviant Art, or whatever); Do NOT use Photobucket

  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • Please name your filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his “Bayou Belle” character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.

Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).

This contest will close on Monday, September 7th at 6:00pm Eastern

Character Design Challenge #475– The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Part 1 – Results

Well Toto, we are CLEARLY not in Kansas anymore! Great job everyone. All the entries are awesome, and that made this decision very difficult.

Honourable mention goes out to Kellkin.

My only criticism is that the grey parts of Toto and the grey pieces on Dorothy kind of get lost in the background.

Runner up is AMS

Love the idea of Dorothy being a cop, and the shading on Toto is unbelievable.

And the win this week goes to...

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Character Design Challenge #474– Public Domain ReDo Challenge – Part 5– Dynamic Man and Dynamic Boy – Prize for Angelos Stefanopoulos

Winning version of Dynamic Man and Dynamic Boy..

My version inspired by this design...

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Nerdmudgeon: Civil War, Homecoming, and Doctor Strange

Nerdmudgeon: Earth's Mightiest Podcast!

I've been remiss in my Nerdmudgeon updates! Today John, Dave and I discuss one of my least-favorite MCU releases, "Dr. Strange". Why would I not love a magic-based film featuring the lovable Benedict Cummberbatch? You'll just have to tune in to find out!

For your listening pleasure, over the previous two weeks we also released our reviews of "Spider-Man: Homecoming" and "Captain America: Civil War".

Thanks for indulging our Pandemic Project, I hope you give it a chance and please, let us know what you think of the show!

Character Design Challenge #475– The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Part 1

When I first saw The Wizard of Oz movie as a kid, it scared the living crap out of me. It was not until years later that I fell in love with the cast of characters.

I have wanted to do a series updating the characters in a darker style for years. Think Oz with a Beetlejuice meets Pan’s Labyrinth vibe. Just use your imagination and have fun.

Your challenge this week is to reimagine the characters of Dorothy and Toto.

The winning entrant will receive a HM3 version of their characters rendered by yours truly.

The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges:

Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters.No characters based on Official RPG NPC's ( Non-Player Characters ). Please keep all submissions PG13. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered in a contest before. If you aren’t certain, don’t enter it, because I’m not going to go back through all of the contests and check.

All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack,  or whatever);

  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • Please name your filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his “Bayou Belle” character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.

Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).

This contest will close on Monday, August 31th at 6:00pm Eastern

Character Design Challenge #474– Public Domain ReDo Challenge – Part 5– Dynamic Man and Dynamic Boy – Results-

One entry..

So it is Angelos Stefanopoulos for the win.

Your prize will be posted to the blog later this week.

Character Design Challenge #473– Public Domain ReDo Challenge – Part 4– Major Victory – Prize for Arkadiano1991

Arkadiano1991's version of Major Victory ...

My version based on their design...

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Character Design Challenge #474– Public Domain ReDo Challenge – Part 5– Dynamic Man and Dynamic Boy

Your challenge this week is to reimagine Golden Age heroes Dynamic Man and Dynamic Boy (pictured above) for the modern day.

The winning entrant will receive a HM3 version of their characters rendered by yours truly.

The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges:

Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters.No characters based on Official RPG NPC's ( Non-Player Characters ). Please keep all submissions PG13. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered in a contest before. If you aren’t certain, don’t enter it, because I’m not going to go back through all of the contests and check.

All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack, PhotoBucket, or whatever);

  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • Please name your filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his “Bayou Belle” character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.

Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).

This contest will close on Monday, August 24th at 6:00pm Eastern

Character Design Challenge #473– Public Domain ReDo Challenge – Part 4– Major Victory – Results

Runner up this week goes to Mark Williams

And the win goes to...

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Character Design Challenge #472– Public Domain ReDo Challenge – Part 3– Strongman – Prize for AMS

AMS' Strong Man...

My version inspired by his design...

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