Next up in our Seven Deadly Sins series of character design contests is Greed!
Your design challenge for this week is to create a character or characters based on something related to the second of the Deadly Sins, "greed". Your character could be named greed, or you could build a mentalist who inspires greed in his or her victims; a classic "dungeon crawl" group of adventurers looking to plunder the nearest goblin cave; a gold-hungry Dragon; the Generalized Recovery / Exploration / Exploitation Device robot; or anything else you could think of related to the desire to own everything.
But really, it's up to you. Just make a great illustration based on the concept of "greed".
The rules are the same as usual:
- All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like ImageShack, PhotoBucket, the UGO Forums, whatever);
- Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
- The image cannot have been used in any previous HeroMachine character design contest;
- Please name your files as [your name]-[character name].[file extension]. 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). If you see "preview" or "rotate" somewhere in the link you're probably doing it wrong.
- All entries must be in by next Monday, when I'll choose a winner.
The person with the winning entry as selected by our expert panel (i.e. me) will win their choice of a) a portrait to go in HeroMachine 3, b) an item to go in HeroMachine 3, or c) a custom black and white "Sketch of the Day" style drawing (also by me).
No limit again this week, knock yourselves out.
Good luck, everyone!
And…… What about entry limit?
Second to last line, “No limit again this week, knock yourselves out.” For once I remembered BEFORE hitting post!
ups
Ups..:oops: I didn’t read the second to last line.. I thought you would forget that again..
Getting busy with my final exam.. dunno I’ll submit my entry or not this week..
The guy in the picture up there looks like an amalgam of both greed and gluttony…
This time, I’ll go Hindu…
http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af309/skybandit/Skybandit-MammonsGreed.jpg
And like a remora I latch on to Jeff’s larger contest…
dblade’s Random Finalist Consolation Prize!
I will randomly choose (roll of a dice) one of the nonwinning finalists (the Chosen One) and create an item of his/her choice (with a couple of guidelines, caveats, jabbergobbles to consider).
1. The Chosen One can choose one new item to be created for any existing category in Hero Machine 3 with the exception of these categories: Backgrounds, Companions.
2. The new item must be applicable to the default body type. No specialized items for alternate body types (turned head, 3/4 torso, etc…)
3. I reserve the right to ask the Chosen One to pick another item if the request is beyond my ability or inappropriate for Hero Machine 3.
4. Reference images or a really good description must be provided so I can fulfill the request with the minimal amount of heartache and frustration.
So there you have it. As many of you are familiar with my contributions you know I can handle a wide range of art requests so don’t let the guidelines scare you. I do have limitations (damn you, Human Hair!!) so please be understanding if I have to decline a request.
Now back to the regularly scheduled contest…
I’m commiting to making an entire group for these contests.
SEVEN DEADLY SINS: A group of horror-like characters, one for each deadly sin, that live in an abandoned Assylum where they torment and kill any unlucky person who stumbles upon them.
GREED: I knew I wanted a kid in my group of horror misfits, so I decided greed would be the best choice. Whats greedier than a kid! She’s 13 years old but far from innocent. She burned down her house with her parents inside. Her lungs are damaged from breathing in the smoke and now she has to carry around her own oxygen tank. The last sound her victims hear is the screech of the metal tanks being drug across the floor.
http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae274/capttravis/MScat-Greed.jpg
In the future contests I will simply post my guidelines in the Winners’ thread. Sorry for the hijacking.
Greed twins 🙂
http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc364/newerlie/Greed.jpg?t=1327339969
Here is an entry for “greed”. Beware of the golden touch of Midas! You can never have enough gold!
http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=81816&d=1327341784
Continuing my series based on Google Images search results 😛
http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h464/Kaylin88100/Kaylin88100-Greed1.png
In case you’re curious…here’s the set of pics I’m working from. This is a group pic I found,I’ve also got full pictures of each. http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h464/Kaylin88100/7deadlysins1.jpg
And finally, here’s my Wrath entry for comparison. They’re probably not going to fit together very well by the time I’ve finished, but oh well.
http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h464/Kaylin88100/Kaylin88100-Wrath2.png
http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae99/dhabirunner/hm3-beta-1.png
I want the entire world
Rome never looks where she treads.
Always her heavy hooves fall
On our stomachs, our hearts or our heads;
And Rome never heeds when we bawl.
(The Pict Song by Rudyard Kipling)
Greed has a long and sad history-
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Pu4_EhP7WYA/Txz9NVL30bI/AAAAAAAAAUE/BeOZT8cqrnQ/s512/Phatchick-Greed.png
Entry #1 – The Politician: http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=81821&d=1327358535
I don’t think I’ve entered my Theif before, so here she is, along with my other entry simply titled “Money” because I am lazy and uncreative.
http://i.imgur.com/J81P1.jpg Money
http://i.imgur.com/lkAC7.jpg Theif
MEPHISTO
http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=81108&d=1321726071
The post picture on top reminds me of big government, politicians get fatter and richer while the lil guy strugles to buy milk and bread.
AVARICE
http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=73406&d=1288095124
My entries have been in moderation for three hours. WTF
You must remember that Jeff has a New Job and Moderation of posts will be slower then normal. Be Patient Jeff will get to them when he is able.
Uh, is that,really, greed?
Just cause it’s green?
I Dunno
Five hours. Why must The Man be so keen to hold Jeff down? Sigh.
I’ll just check back tomorrow.
Calm yer britches, Syntax, yer good to go.
Moi’s Back, please don’t criticize the other entrants. Thanks.
Yarr har, me buckos. What do ye do when ya want somethin’r other online, but ye be too much of a cheap an’ greedy lan’lubber to spare some dubloons for it? Ye pirate it of course, yo ho!
http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=81829&d=1327377453
That is incredible! I like the use of perspective in your work.
Greed.
http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af309/skybandit/Skybandit-AmericanGreed.jpg
i think that’s the kind of stuff you can be sent to jail for now under the new extension of the patriot act……lol
Hey Jeff, could you go with this update of MIDAS, please? Couldn’t resist making some improvements. Thanks!
http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=81830&d=1327380731
General
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/562/e350general.png
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. – Dwight D. Eisenhower.
http://s1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/RoccoPio_Cuccurullo/?action=view¤t=hm3-beta.png the jaguar a thief of museums
http://s1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/RoccoPio_Cuccurullo/?action=view¤t=hm3-beta.png
Dollar Man : http://s1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/RoccoPio_Cuccurullo/?action=view¤t=hm3-beta-1.png
http://s1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/RoccoPio_Cuccurullo/?action=view¤t=hm3-beta-1.png-greed
@Razor99
Hello RoccoPio in the contests. Good to see your entries. You made a lot of great picture what you shown in facebook. So there is a little problem your pictures, the links are jump page links but Jeff need the direct links for the pictures.
The jaguar a thief of museum
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/RoccoPio_Cuccurullo/hm3-beta.png
Dollar Man
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/RoccoPio_Cuccurullo/hm3-beta-1.png
And another advice, try to rename the picture for this mode to Razor99_picturename.png or jpg more help to Jeff.
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/Razor99_CursedCOIN/hm3-beta-2.png
sorry for the problems i will try to improve http://s1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/RoccoPio_Cuccurullo/?action=view¤t=hm3-beta-2.png
razor99, the link you want is the one that appears in the “direct link” box:
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/RoccoPio_Cuccurullo/hm3-beta-2.png
In the album view, each image has a set of boxes just beneath it, one of which is the “direct link” you want. In the single-image view, it’s over in a box to the right.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6755077689_2f83640d5d_b.jpg
Joseph H. Mammon was the kingpin of underground distribution. He sold weapons, drugs, and women in quantities that gang lords could only dream of. But that all changed August 6, 2006.
No one really knows what happened that day. Some say he made a deal with the devil. Others, that he became the devil. Still others insist that he always was, and his ‘abilities’ simply awakened that day. But one thing is for certain: he isn’t fully human anymore.
However, people still find themselves drawn to his estate, to sign special ‘contracts’. These deals invariably are something that the signee wants, such as vast sums of money or drugs, but they come at a price: the soul of the signee.
There are rumors that he stores the souls of his victims in a vault, to feed his unearthly greed.
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/RoccoPio_Cuccurullo/hm3-beta-3.png a damned greed gladiator
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/RoccoPio_Cuccurullo/hm3-beta-2.png AN cursed coin (sorry for the problems)
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/RoccoPio_Cuccurullo/hm3-beta-1.png Dollar man
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/RoccoPio_Cuccurullo/hm3-beta.png
jaguar a museums thief
I slept the Wrath contest but now I’m here with Twisted Greed.
He has the ability to turn people into greediest of the greedy by simply letting them touch his golden cards.
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff426/Namless/TwistedGreed.png
Greed
Achilles, you’re doing something very wrong here — this was just a list of links to your previous comments, none of which had any content.
You have this url as “your site” but I think it’s actually your entry:
http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/hh584/Achillies228/greed.png
To make an entry, just hit Reply at the bottom here, and paste in the URL to your image in the big text block where you’d type your comments. It’s that easy. You don’t have to quote anything, just cut and paste the URL to your image into the comment box.
— Jeff
Good evening from Italy!
For the sin of greed, I am pleased to present …
GreedFall!
Spectrum of gold that creeps into the minds of humans.
Fear it or own it?
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/214/dynamitegreedfall.jpg/
ciao!
@Dynamite
Hello in the community blog, and the contest.
The correct link for your picture is:
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9776/dynamitegreedfall.jpg
Right click on the picture and choose first row if you use firefox.
he raid every sacred place around the world to hunt treasures for himself..
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii180/gendonesiaraya/heroes/gendonesia-gravehunter.jpg
the top ca:
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/024/5/2/the_top_cat_by_karzykyle-d4nh73n.png
i meant to say the top cat:
My take on Midas. Credit goes to Kytana (I think) for the amphora.
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u352/DENZIS666/Albannach-FrutilityofGreed.png
I’ve just noticed a spelling error in that name, Jeff. It should read FUTILITY of Greed lol
entry 1
the one percent.
Its been a while since I have been able to do one of these 🙂
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/watson_kaboos/watsonbradshaw-onepercent.png
The unfortunate victim of King Midas’ greed, his daughter Marigold, being turned into a golden statue.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-votB3lButDg/Tx8c9e6iYhI/AAAAAAAAAU0/TajWOCVFNPc/s606/Phatchick-Marigold.png
GREED
http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=81841&d=1327439189
Can our entries be posted on Facebook?
Hail Money!
http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=81843&d=1327444668
You can post the images on Facebook, but you need to come here and post a comment with the link to the image, the name of the character, etc. I use this comment stream as the exclusive method for determining what entries have been made.
Thank you for the compliment, but I totally stole that perspective trick from Gendonisia’s entry in Contest 79. To be honest, I think they did it better than I did.
I made some edits to my “Money” entry. Hopefully this one sucks less: http://i.imgur.com/T1vIt.jpg
Entry #1
Second member of super-villain group “The Deadly Sins”
Greed
http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=81845&d=1327457075
This is a very slow contest.
::shakes head:: Syntax, I don’t suppose you played “Debbie Downer” on Saturday Night Live, did you? There are 63 comments so far in just one day, I’m happy with that.
some of us have to let the ideas stew a bit before getting to work on the contest
Greed
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/7092/guzyagreed.jpg
Hear hear! I’m still figuring this one out, but I think I have a decent idea I’ll work on this week.
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/RoccoPio_Cuccurullo/hm3-beta-4.png the spirit of the greed
I always felt that certain monsters in games were more geared as PC deterrents. This particular monster was to help control greed.
The translation is “almost… almost…!”
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/Mashlagoo/Mashlagoo-Mimic.jpg
Continuing my OTHER series, the Deadly Sins in their adolescent incarnations:
http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h464/Kaylin88100/Kaylin88100-Teenage_Greed.png
Spoiled child wants a pony. Stinkin’ rich dad about to give in. And yeah, I know the proportions are off. I can’t think how to fix it though. Might upload a tweaked version on Sunday evening. Might not.
my 1st entry
http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i398/diazmydaz/Greed-Burntheworld.jpg
Thak you!!!!!!!!
Well this is not very greed, but you can say it’s a demon of greed
http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/025/6/4/heromachine_contest_for_greed_by_kwnnos-d4nl4wo.jpg
I noticed that the carpet goes up the wall. You might want to fix that.
It can also be seen through the CEO’s desk.
This one is kind of self explanatory. The shadowed background was actually nowhere near as difficult as I expected it to be, but then again, I’m a bit new to this.
http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/7064/kiuygfvb.png
http://i891.photobucket.com/albums/ac111/Kicktar/HM/CaptainKicktar-LegionofGreed.png
The Legion of Greed was mutated to think she is young forever, and desires the money she needs for glamorizing materials.
Alone
http://s843.photobucket.com/albums/zz360/engetsunoaori/?action=view¤t=unknownblackpaper-Alone.png
“If there be one small Hope in this Realm, then it shall be mine alone.”
One way of thinking of greed is to want everything. Another is to possess something that no one else can have. Now imagine if you will that within all the darkness that exists around you, you still possessed that small light that gave you the hope that you needed to know that everything will be all right.
Then lost it once again, taken from you by that same darkness.
True greed takes all, including what you cannot give.
Sorry, here is the correct link
http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz360/engetsunoaori/unknownblackpaper-Alone.png
Continued yesterday, about seven deadly sins clown. But with a different touch 🙂
The second member of the group deadly sins clown, CLOWN GREED:
http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/k573/eddogurong/gurong7_clowngreed.jpg
Entry #2
Greed of The Deadly Sins(variant)
http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=81881&d=1327564493
Slavery the ultimate crime of Greed!
http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z445/Xenowolf1/greedofslavery.png
Continuing my series of the Letter Sinners:
“G” is for Greed.
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg498/RoccoPio_Cuccurullo/hm3-beta-5.png
I didn’t save it. Oh well. It’s not a particularly strong image anyway.
Some areas of my image bothered me, so I fixed them. Please go off this instead of the first Mimic Jeff.
This is also higher quality, so (hopefully) more of the details can be viewed.
Poor little guy has a belt buckle stuck in his teeth.
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/Mashlagoo/Mashlagoo-Mimic-1.jpg
“Did you ever see the giant’s ring? You’re so lucky.. I am Greed, the second member of “7 Deadly Sins”, will show it for you and.. No! No! Don’t touch anything of mine!!”
the cat burglar:
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/026/b/f/the_cat_burglar_by_karzykyle-d4noxmn.jpg
I thought you weren’t entering! Nooooooooooooooooooooo!
In other news, the back of that couch-thing doesn’t look like it matches up with it’s arms.
http://s1162.photobucket.com/albums/q533/WiggeWill/?action=view¤t=Greedoes.jpg
I just KNEW that somebody was going to do an Orange Lantern eventually.
Hello will. I don’t know this is your first entry, if the first welcome to the contest. There is a little problem with your link. The correct link for your picture.
http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/q533/WiggeWill/Greedoes.jpg
If you use firefox right click the picture and first row or use what Jeff wrote it
“In the album view, each image has a set of boxes just beneath it, one of which is the “direct link” you want. In the single-image view, it’s over in a box to the right.”
GREED
http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=81904&d=1327674837
The Tax Collector
http://forums.ugo.com/picture.php?albumid=254&pictureid=2245
love it! im a huge GL fan myself.
Entry #1:
Greedy Siblings: http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=81916&stc=1&d=1327700982
Here my greed entry:
http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/1852/kytgreed.png
A dragon is a very greed fantasy character, always watch that nobody stole his treasure.
There you are, Kytana!!!
Regarding your Random Finalist Consolation Prize. I took a shot at a hairstyle but I’m not sure it’s what you had in mind. Color 2 hasn’t been added yet. Once the look is approved I will add it in.
http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=81761&d=1327091183
ams also did a sample piece using HM3 assets to create a hairstyle. Was this more of what you had in mind? If so I can take these assets and recreate this look (with a little less symmetry).
http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=81764&d=1327093385
I’m thinking of taking another shot at it. I won’t let that blasted hair get the best of me!
Daryl
Also feel free to hit me up on the UGO forums…
http://forums.ugo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34
…then go to Hero Archives and find my dblade’s Whiz Bang Item Dispenser thread. We can talk hair.
IT’S BEAUTIFUL!
OMG, I think we have a winner! Your sense of detail is wonderful.
Next Installment of my seven deadly martial arts styles: Greed Style!
This martial arts style employs the tenants of the greedy. Those who use it take whatever they want by hiding in the shadows. Everything they can get they do so with trickery and stealth. They are the master assassins who take life with a greed unlike anything else.
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/027/0/0/greed_style_by_onikagenoken-d4nu2fy.png
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk140/marquis_samedi/MarquisSamedi-LordHoggmungus.jpg
before I make such a picture is displayed in the room..and now I feel greedy 😀
My CLOWN GREED with different styles and backgrounds..and check my second entry:
http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/k573/eddogurong/gurong7_clowngreed-2-.jpg
“hand over the money! yeah, yeah. the ring, too!”
http://forums.ugo.com/album.php?albumid=254&pictureid=2246
not as an entry, but i think i’ll make my second entry part of a series, this guy being wrath:
http://forums.ugo.com/album.php?albumid=254&pictureid=2247
The greedy corporation’s oil drills have awoken a beast more terrifying than anyone could imagine. Nobody is safe.
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u352/DENZIS666/TragoediaArctica.png
My second of my “Sins”, Greed has the ability to make individuals as greedy as possible, making them want everything. This is typically how the Sins start their conquering, as these individuals have to keep their part of the deal (letting the sins have the planet) when they get powerful enough politically.
Full:http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j451/Superhuman1992/Joe-Greed1.png
Head:http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j451/Superhuman1992/Joe-Greed2.png
As you could see, I gave him an affinity for shields. I also put in a very fitting Star Wars quote.
Entry #2
Fallen Angel Greed. He was imprisoned in hell because he sought to take everything on earth for himself. Now he rules the circle of hell called greed, named after it’s king.
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/029/e/b/fallen_angel_greed_by_onikagenoken-d4nyoro.png
One of the richest and most dangerous mobs in the city, Taking anybody’s gold and turning the gold into weapons even a army can’t stop.
http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m593/mrmatt220/GOLDENSHOTMOB.png
Defeated by the Internets! No entry for me this week. A good lesson to learn about not waiting too long to get started.
Woot!!! Heromachine is back!
I actually had most of this done before Kytana put in her dragon picture, so I swear, I’m not trying to copy her.
Weird thing about a dragon’s riches that I’ve never understood: They will amass all this wealth, they covet it, they will nest in it. But they never spend it on anything, so one has to wonder why they value it at all.
http://i685.photobucket.com/albums/vv217/Myrowire/Hero%20Machine%20Contest%20Entries/myro-dragons_riches.png
Here goes :). Another being formed by the fusion of the damned, Greed hungers only for further conquests to add to her vast collection. Every person she kills forfeits the entirety of their earthly possessions to her. The once barren dimension she inhabits is swollen with her gains, but there will never be enough to satisfy her. Each soul she collects adds a link to the chain that writhes and ferries around her. The chain moves at her mental command, ensnaring anything and anyone that comes within it’s reach.
http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l607/DiCicatriz/HM%20Contests/DiCicatriz-Greed.png
Well I am no 50 years old as of the 28th, Half a century and still ticking, and let me tell ya a time or two it was touch and go.
I wanted to do more for this contest, but well .. I didn’t want to be Greedy!` LOL
So her is my one entry. A Man who symbolizes Greed for me the best. Here I play my Trump card.
http://s795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_GreedTrump001.jpg
First and only entry: IOWA
Personally i don’t want to enter in the contest, because i don’t have any idea for greed, but i hear the song Iowa from band Slipknot and that gives me the idea.
So the story of the picture is a man kidnapped a woman whose love, and want to make a clay statue from her, which statue made by the girl. So in my eyes this is the typical example of greed. He don’t want to loose her girlfriend, and also don’t want to the girl shown her beauty for another man.
http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=81964&d=1327928111
Thanks for the entries, folks, this contest is now closed! I’ll be judging and assembling the announcement post during the day; it might be later than usual due to the day job but it will go up today at some point.