Weilyn – HeroMachine remembers one of its BEST!!

Today I write to honor the passing  of a member of the HeroMachine Moderation staff, Weilyn. I was saddened today to learn of her passing by a close friend of hers, our very own Stulte who created the image above in memorial to her! When HammerKnight due to health reasons had to step down as moderator for a time leaving the running of this place solely on my shoulders Weilyn was the first person I reached out to and invited to join the Moderation Team here at HeroMachine because I saw how helpful and friendly she was and KNEW she would be a wonderful moderator.

I remember how honored and excited she was to be a moderator and how eager she was to be able to give back to our community and help you all with all things HeroMachine! We private messages back and forth for several days as she grilled me on the things she needed to know to be an effective moderator and on how to posts to the blog and together with Her, Jr, and djuby I felt we had one of the finest group of Mods anywhere on the net!

I don't know any details of her passing but what I can say is the Weilyn will be missed dearly by many here on this site, and to her friends and family that many be reading this you have my most heart felt condolences! Rest In Peace My Friend!

( Below after the Jump you will find a few of Weilyn's HeroMachine Creations that I have selected as well as a Link to her Gallery on the forum )

EDIT: Added more of Weilyn's art below as suggested by Jr. 

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Character Design Contest ♯79 (Inspired By Music 2) Poll

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I would advise people to listen to the songs that inspired these pieces when making their decision. Some of the choices make more sense when put into context.

Anarchangel's song- Lykke Li- Love Me Like I'm Not Made Of Stone

Cliff's song- Perfect Sunset & Midori- Secrets

Son4's song- Prince- The Future (Remix)

Stulte's song- Mussorgsky- Night On Bald Mountain

Vectorman's song- The Sword- Freya

Character Design Contest ♯78 (Strike A Pose)- Winner

This weeks poll, right from the very start, was a three horse race in terms of the votes. At one point mid-week it was even a three way tie, but it eventually spaced out to finish with a ten vote margin covering the top three (that's ten points between first and third, half the points that covered first to second last week). But only one person could come out on top. And that person was Gargantua for their entry demon. Congrats Gargantua, please go speak to dblade about your prize if you so wish, and congratulations to everyone else who entered, there were some fantastic entries.

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HM3: The Final Body Parts Have Been Chopped!

This update concludes the horrific cutting of bodies into various parts. Enjoy, you crazy psychopaths! (You can find the parts in Body/MaleMaterials)

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Kaldath's Caption Contest #32

Once more it is time to jump feet first into another Caption Contest. This week I want you to get your thinking caps on and give me some good replacment dialogue for the following image:

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The usual rules apply, You are limited to Three (3) entries which are due by 12 noon Eastern Time on Tuesday July 1st.  Of course I as always expect you to keep your entriesno worse then PG-13 in nature and that you follow all the normal rules of the forum when writing your caption for the above image. That being said I wish you all Good luck!

Kaldath's Caption Contest #31 – Results

Last week I asked you to give me your best dialogue to fill the word bubbles for the following image:

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Skybandit

Girl: Huh. Sex is no big deal.
Boy: I think we’re doing it wrong.

*****

Arioch

Haruhi: This is not as fun as I thought…

Kyon:  This is heavier than I feared.

*****

Calvary_Red

Haruhi: “I think we need a little help.”

Kyon: “So send out an S.O.S.”

*****

Herr D

Girl:  I’ve read that talking burns a lot of calories.

Boy: Well, we know it was a lie, don’t we?

*****

Lexicon

Her: Higher! I still can’t see One Direction!
Him: So deep in the friend zone…

*****

And the winner is ....................

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Character Design Contest ♯79- Inspired By Music 2

Last year we did a challenge where I asked you to do a piece of art on Heromachine that was inspired by a piece of music of your choice. Now I enjoyed that contest so much, I've decided to do it again.

As with last time we did this contest, you can do any kind of art, character, background, abstract etc. for this contest. I will be judging on how well I feel the piece illustrates the music, not just by lyrical content (so you can do art for an instrumental) but also the feeling of the music. As such for you work to be eligible you must include a link to a youtube video or sound cloud page of the song your art is portraying (don't send download links). Don't worry about me not liking the song and judging your work down because of that, I'll be objective, and anyway, I'm pretty open in my music tastes.

As per usual, no limits on entries this week and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). The winner gets to claim a custom made item from dblade to be put into heromachine, so long as the item conforms to his prize rules, which you can find here: http://www.heromachine.com/forum/the-heromachine-art-gallery/dblades-whiz-bang-item-dispenser/. Please read the contest rules before entering, have fun and good luck.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges that I am hosting: Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters, no characters based on RPG’s or other games. The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warnings. Only post characters that you have either created for this contest specifically or you know for certain have never been entered to 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.

 

Character Design Contest ♯78 (Strike A Pose) Poll

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Ok guys, so those are your winners, but there were too many awesome entries this week for me not to do an honourable mentions, so you can find them after the jump.

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Character Design Contest ♯77 (Villains) Winner

You know how last weeks poll was really close? Well this one wasn't. The winner won by a clear 20 votes. And you know the best thing, he actually said that he was sure AMS was going to win. Dude, have some confidence ;). Anyway, this weeks winner was Anarchangel for Nightstalker & Entropy. Congrats dude, you probably know the drill by now, go talk to dblade etc. and well done to everyone who entered.

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Kaldath's Caption Contest #31

Once again it time for a new caption contest! This week I am stepping away from the Superhero stuff and venturing into the realm of Anime/Manga for your challenge. Now what I want you to do is come up with your best dialogue  for BOTH word bubbles in this image:

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The usual rules apply, You are limited to Three (3) entries which are due by 12 noon Eastern Time on Tuesday June 24th.  Of course I as always expect you to keep your entries no worse then PG-13 in nature and that you follow all the normal rules of the forum when writing your caption for the above image. That being said I wish you all Good luck!