Happy Saturday, folks! Your one-day quick-fire challenge is:
"Rocky Background" by AMS
Make an environment or setting!
In other words, I just want the area where a character might be seen, but without the character. You can get some great ideas from the UGO Forums' Custom Backgrounds topic or the somewhat less-populated HeroMachine forum on the same subject if you need examples. Like the Fortress of Solitude without Superman, or a forest glen without the fairy, or a computer without a fat bald geek sitting at it writing this ... here ... paragraph. Hm.
Anyway. You only get one entry -- that's right, just one! So make it your best. Most of the other rules are the same as for a regular contest, but instead of a whole week I'll announce the winner either tonight or first thing in the morning.
- 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;
- 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). Here's a quick-start guide on how to do that for various image hosting services.
The winner will receive their choice of either one item or one portrait to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 release, or one Sketch of the Day style drawing where you pick the subject and I draw it how I like.
Good luck!
And if I could add, save your backgrounds’ text strings and post in the forums so others can use your awesome concepts.
Good luck to everyone. I’m off to run a marathon!
Cheers!
http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/uu224/seamusmcfrost/maniacmick-thecove.png?t=1338048078
The cove
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/the_angel_sees/tk422-bg1.jpg
I’m pretty sure I did this properly.
A graveyard at sunset
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/misterdinoman/2012/05/Sunset-Graveyard.PNG
Here you go, this ought do it. http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/147/c/c/cc6b4833dd1d84c338fdc789b38b2384-d51a53n.png
McKnight, do you think I should make the spray coming off that ship permanently white, as part of the uncolored portion? It seems weird with the water coming through.
I hope this came out right. Its supposed to be a planet seen from a near by sister planet, if that makes sense: http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l512/JohnnyGear/JohnnyGear-PlanetRise3.png
Yeah, that would work. Maybe just put some white around the top edges.
Hey Jeff I plan on entering this contest im just not sure when I’ll be home to send in my entry as I’m working at the moment. Hopefully I’ll be done in the next 4-5 hours and then I will submit my scene.
Explore the Île-de-Deux-Diables.
text, 54 layers
Heyla!
First time I can enter this contest. Didn’t quite come out right, but the parts that didn’t would normally be hidden by the character…
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l274/Healingbear/Thundersong-Asianbackground.png
Alight, here we go.
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/8210/drelladesummoningcircle.png
Had this already made, just needed to remove the character.
http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h464/Kaylin88100/Kaylin88100-Crystal_cave_empty.png
Didn’t give my image the correct name. Here’s the right one.
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/misterdinoman/2012/05/MisterDinoMan_Graveyard-Sunset.PNG
The Gate of the Golden Lions.
http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af309/skybandit/Skybandit-GateoftheGoldenLions.jpg
(Guards don’t count as characters, do they?)
http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/4742/quillmarsbackground.png
Welcome to lovely Mars, home of the tallest mountains on record and way too little atmosphere.
Be awhile since I have entered a contest. Here is Nightmare Globe, picture your hero floating up from the grave, while the evil witch is looking deep into her crystal ball for seeing your hero’s death.
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/hammerknight/2012/05/Nightmare-Globe-by-Hammerknight-3.png
Okay, here we go, The Realm of the Ethereal Behind a Brick Wall.
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/bobobo1/Rorschach/jack-etherealrealm.png
A gate made out of Brimstone that leads to the very depths of hell.
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/vampyrist/2012/05/Vampyrist-BrimstoneGate.png
A partly submerged rock in a sunset:
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/shiboreth/2012/05/Shiboreth_Background-Submerged-Rock-Sunset.png
Does an entry for one of these quizes HAVE to be made the same day the quiz is posted, or can an older creation be entered too? If entering older creations is alright, then here’s a pretty old attempt at creating a scene from a first person perspective
http://forums.ugo.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=83075&stc=1&d=1338078858
I prefer ones made today but I’ll let older ones slide.
Atlantis
http://www.robertmckercher.com/Atlantis3.jpg
The Lagoon
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/147/5/e/lagoon_by_prowlerknight-d51bwur.png
Heres is my entry, tried my best to created battle ravaged alley.
http://i1130.photobucket.com/albums/m523/Chris_Knapman/CKnap-RavagedAlley.png
http://i1152.photobucket.com/albums/p498/MaDPac2/Madpac-CrashLanding.jpg
Inspired by Pitch Black (which is strangely cool in almost the same way that Chronicles of Riddick sucks), I made an alien landscape, complete with neighboring (possibly parent) planet and asteroid field.
http://i685.photobucket.com/albums/vv217/Myrowire/Hero%20Machine%20Contest%20Entries/myro-alien-landscape.png
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk140/marquis_samedi/MarquisSamedi-cave.png
FYI, “brimstone” is actually an old-timey name for sulfur, which is yellow. Just sayin’. Good job on the gate though, looks badass.
McKnight, I knew that going into making it, but brimstone gate sounded hellish and yellow is not that hellish, at least not to me. That and black works well for a hellgate.
My personal favorites so far are MisterDinoMan’s, Trekkie’s and Myro’s.
http://cs10561.userapi.com/v10561168/d33/v90fOD_P8E0.jpg
Oh, fun! Good excuse to start the background for the first scene in the story I’m working on. 🙂
In case anyone is interested in knowing about the story, this is the beach where a small band of con men camped the night before entering the town on the hill. They were caught within a couple of weeks and executed by being thrown off the cliff, but they survived because one of them turned out to be basically an ocean demigod (as well as being the main character and thus not allowed to die in his first scene).
If you’re not interested in the story, it can just be a beach at sunset.
http://i1260.photobucket.com/albums/ii579/barbario1/barbario-winter.jpg
its very simple but i think it is evocative.
My background image, swamp like with a skull moon on the rise.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7oCcISi2hX4/T8Hrz0IrGCI/AAAAAAAADzo/M-R8iHnptf4/s800/Gene%2520-%2520swamp%2520background.jpg
Creation of the Sun
– It all started when God accidentally poured the first galactic blue and red fire he created on a 1,989,100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilogram (4,385,214,857,119,399,823,317,774,893,056 pound) star . And the star began to absorb the heat . The star suddenly changed color and temperature . It became really really hot . It started bursting out light and fire loops we call Solar Flares . It generated elements like helium , hydrogen etc . God named it Sun . And until now it was used by Humans for their light .
Creation of the Sun
– It all started when God accidentally poured the first galactic blue and red fire he created on a 1,989,100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilogram (4,385,214,857,119,399,823,317,774,893,056 pound) star . And the star began to absorb the heat . The star suddenly changed color and temperature . It became really really hot . It started bursting out light and fire loops we call Solar Flares . It generated elements like helium , hydrogen etc . God named it Sun . And until now it was used by Humans for their light .
Full
http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u461/iGusta13/iGusta13-CreationoftheSun.jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9774/kytfestung.png
Title: Sunrise
Geez, Kytana. That almost looks like it was painted, not done with HeroMachine
Kytana, you are a master, that is amazing!
Nice job kytana that looks awesome!
Here is my first ever entry.
It’s a kind of Irish highlands scene, with some other wordly elements.
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/5651/alexanderoflimboirishhi.png
That is good. Rather like someone asked Monet to illustrate “Lord of the Rings”…
Here’s my go. Old character (done in a day!) removed, leaving the background…
http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj596/largebluecat/fuzztone-sunset.png
um–logosgal, kytana, and fuzztone? If this was only a contest for sky, you three would obviously be my finalists. If meterology becomes applied meteronomy, I want to call you three.