Female Body Alternate Added

The female version of the Body Alternate set is now live for HeroMachine 3. It's all what you'd expect, except I did change the "toon" body quite a bit from its male iteration:

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Enjoy!

I’m about to reset your password!

As part of the effort to stop the hacking of the site, I'm about to reset everyone's passwords. My apologies, but it looks like that might be where the problem is happening so this is one way to combat it.

Update: I just completed the reset. You should get your new auto-generated random password by email. If you don't have it, check your spam folder, it might be in there. Or, you can go directly to http://www.heromachine.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword to reset it manually with either your site username or registered email address.

My apologies for the irritation, believe me, I'm feeling it too.

Is anyone seeing "Cash Back" offers instead of HM3?

Someone on the HeroMachine Facebook page (like us if you haven't already!) is reporting that when they go to HM3 in any browser, they're seeing this instead:

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Is anyone else experiencing anything like that?

HeroMachine Blog & Forums

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Hello folk, With 2014 here I thought I'd make a few inquires. First I would like to know, how many of you here that read the blog use our forums? and if not why not? Secondly since this post will be shared on our facebook and google+ pages I'd like to know from our social media communities, do you folks visit the site and read the blog or read the forums ? Again if not why not ? I will be checking the Facebook and Google+ pages to see your responses.

Next I would like to ask you blog readers what additional content you would like to see us cover here. I can't make any promises, and I certainly can not speak for JR, dblade, CKnap, or FRM on this, however I will give any of your suggestions due consideration and if I feel confident I can cover the content you suggest I will give it a try, as time constraints allow anyway. I would also like to add that I plan on experimenting a bit with Vlogging and submitting some of my posts as Youtube videos instead of a written article and I plan on doing my first video within the next few weeks and record an Anime Talk review.

Thank you all for taking the time to leave me your feedback, it is my hope to hear from all of you. It is my wish to keep our content here on the blog and forums fresh and help bring the HeroMachine Community to that next level!

Whiz Bang Item Creation Poll #3 (Monstrous Feet)

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This week's poll theme is monstrous feet. We have wood, reptilian, and rhino to choose from.

Now's your chance to decide what artwork I will work on next. Whatever wins the vote will be completed the following week. This doesn't mean I won't work on other pieces. The winning piece will just be guaranteed my attention.

This poll will end on Wednesday, January 8th.

Kaldath's Caption Contest #18

Once again it is time for you tu turn your creative focus to a new Caption Contest. This week I want you to come up with your best replacment dialog 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 on Tuesday January 7th. Of course I 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!

EDIT: Just to be clear, for your entry to count I need you to give dialog for both the thought Bubble and the Yellow caption box.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Just wanted to wish the entire HeroMachine Community a very Happy New Year!

Kaldath's Character Challenge #4

After a brief break for Christmas, it is once again for me to challenge you to redesign one of my characters. This week I ask you to give me your interrupertation of ........................

The Jersey Devil

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From my own home State of NJ the Jersey Devil patrols the Tri-state Area. His powers are Limited winged flight, With wings more suited to gliding he is able to actually fly with then though not very fast and usually used it to gain height and then glide at much greater speeds. In addition to his wings, the Devil also has enhanced strength and reflexes and is able to fire blasts of super heated plasma from his hands that he calls his hell fire.

The Rules

No limit on the number of entries you can submit in your attempts at redesigning the above image, however you most keep within the rules of the forum and blog when creating your entries. You have until Monday January 6th at 12 noon Eastern Time to submit all your entries, and the winner will be announce the next day. Good luck everyone and happy HeroMachineing!

Just For Laughs

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Suit Up!

Hi all! Marx here, once and future contributing artist, with my first Blog post.

I noticed awhile back that if the hero your are designing is a suit-wearing type of hero, you really only have one choice of suit in HM3. When Jeff offered me the chance to come back and draw for HM3 after a long hiatus, I thought I'd start by expanding the options for the well-dressed hero. Because sometimes you want a picture of Superman, but sometimes you want a picture of Clark Kent.

I started with the existing single-breasted suit jacket and added three more jacket styles that all use the same sleeves as the original. I also added an open jacket and pushed-back open jacket for when you want to reveal a bit more of what's underneath. You can find them all in the Tops > MaleCoats set. (also duplicated for the FemaleCoats set.)

preview pane showing new suit jacket options

The elbow joint seen above in the lower right corner will hopefully make bent arm poses a bit more graceful. In addition, I added two new ties in the Neckwear > Standard set, and a folded pocket handkerchief to the Insignia > Standard set.

Then, just to show off all these new fashion choices, I put together a picture of four not-at-all-copyright-infringing, suit-wearing characters that I like to call "The Billionaire Boys Club."

Four non-copyright infringing characters wearing four different styles of suits.

Hope you all find them useful.