Character Design Challenge 100 Winners

As you saw from the gallery of entrants, HeroMachinists are a very talented bunch. I'm glad it wasn't up to me to pick just five of the many entries for our centennial character design challenge! But you all stepped up to the plate, and after a week of intensive voting, the results are in:

Name Votes Percentage
Ninja 69 4.76%
The Reaper 68 4.69%
Love is Always Win 67 4.62%
SoulLessRedux 59 4.07%
Witch Hunter 50 3.45%
dblade 39 2.69%
Morgan Lefey 39 2.69%
Dusk 39 2.69%
Sci-Fi Armor 37 2.55%
Virgo 36 2.48%
Meeting The Goddess 35 2.42%
Evil or Something 32 2.21%
Wings 32 2.21%
Aurora 28 1.93%
Charge 27 1.86%
Fjaldyr 26 1.79%
Cyborg 26 1.79%
Shortest Day 25 1.73%
The Polar Bear 24 1.66%
Solaria Debis 24 1.66%
Captain Norway 23 1.59%
Locomortis 23 1.59%
Amorpha 22 1.52%
Blue Flame 21 1.45%
As above, so below 21 1.45%
Captain Ronan Coop 21 1.45%
Phantom In the Dark 20 1.38%
Hero of the Night 20 1.38%
Sora Shade 20 1.38%
Mystery & Awesome 19 1.31%
A.M.P. 19 1.31%
Ronin 19 1.31%
Mage Female 19 1.31%
Dungeon Crawler 19 1.31%
Boriel 19 1.31%
Sabine 18 1.24%
Collette 18 1.24%
Kunoichi 17 1.17%
Kelda and the black bull 16 1.10%
Bounty Hunter of the Abyss 16 1.10%
Virgo 15 1.04%
Cyber Were 14 0.97%
Foggy Moonrise On Aelihoh 13 0.90%
Shockstorm 12 0.83%
Aloli 11 0.76%
Scarlet Driver 11 0.76%
Tidal Wave 11 0.76%
Carnax Mighty Hero 10 0.69%
Prometheus 10 0.69%
The Warlord 9 0.62%
The Myrmidon of Greece 9 0.62%
Penny Dreadful 9 0.62%
Grace Unterbrandt, zombie hunter 9 0.62%
Kaia with C.A.M. 8 0.55%
Blood Sorceress 8 0.55%
The Phantom in the Dark 8 0.55%
XandersWindow 7 0.48%
Autumn Rayne 7 0.48%
Shichifukujin 7 0.48%
Winston And Bakawk 6 0.41%
There goes the neighborhood 6 0.41%
St. Leonine 6 0.41%
Samael 6 0.41%
Twins 6 0.41%
Pulp 5 0.35%
AgentDD 5 0.35%
Partyman 5 0.35%
Phantom Biker 5 0.35%
Galvanico 4 0.28%
Black Metal 4 0.28%
Xsamis 4 0.28%
Skull Boy 4 0.28%
Arctic Capricorn 4 0.28%
cmafi7 3 0.21%
Hunter 3 0.21%
Brick Sands 2 0.14%
Ghost Shaman 2 0.14%
Geomancer 2 0.14%
Sofia Elisavet 2 0.14%
Demon Seed 2 0.14%
Highland Lassie 1 0.07%
Druid 1 0.07%
Wizard 1 0.07%

As you can see, the top five vote getters are Ninja (Moognation), The Reaper (AMS), Love is Always Win (Harlequin), SoulLessRedux (Iscarioto), and Witch Hunter (meniukas). Congratulations to all five of you! I'll be doing my own interpretation of your characters as your prize, which is going to be very difficult in some of these cases as your style is so distinctive and awesome that doing anything different will be a challenge. But I'll try!

Thanks again to everyone for showing off your artistic skills and for being a part of this community for one hundred challenge outings now. I hope you've had as much fun making your illustrations as I have had in seeing them. Now get out there and let your creative side flourish!

13 Responses to Character Design Challenge 100 Winners

  1. JR19759 says:

    Can’t believe I tied with Dblade and Djuby. That’s practically winning in my book. Would have been nice to have been in the top five, but I was beaten by much better artworks. Well done to the top five, you guys deserved it.

  2. Myro says:

    Congrats winners.

  3. Thundersong says:

    Heyla!

    Awesome job for everyone! And Congratulations to the winners!

  4. dblade says:

    JR19759:
    Can’t believe I tied with Dblade and Djuby. That’s practically winning in my book. Would have been nice to have been in the top five, but I was beaten by much better artworks. Well done to the top five, you guys deserved it.

    Number 6! Number 6! Number 6!
    We are the Evil Triumvirate!

    And from this day forward I will consider you an honorary D,
    DJR19759.

  5. Harlequin says:

    I gratulate everyone whose enter this contest. Everyone show a great creativity and visionality. All of you are awesome. I ask thank you for all, and more especially for Jeff to create this awesome thing what we call Heromachine.

    I thanks for everyone whose vote for my picture, and honor to all of them thinks to my picture is one of the kind of the best five picture. I glad to part of this awesome community. Thank you very much. I can’t tell more.

  6. djuby says:

    dblade: Number 6! Number 6! Number 6!We are the Evil Triumvirate!And from this day forward I will consider you an honorary D,DJR19759.

    Well at least I no longer have to be evil all alone.
    6(th) 6(th) 6(th)

    Hail the DDDJR!

  7. Zaheelee says:

    Hey, Jeff, there are two entries named “Virgo”: mine and Kaylin’s. I think Kaylin’s is the one with more votes (it is really an awesome pic), but I just wanted to know which is which. Thanks!

  8. Jeff Hebert says:

    Zaheelee:
    Hey, Jeff, there are two entries named “Virgo”: mine and Kaylin’s.I think Kaylin’s is the one with more votes (it is really an awesome pic), but I just wanted to know which is which.Thanks!

    Kaylin’s is the one with 36 votes.

  9. Zaheelee says:

    I thought so. Kaylin really had a fantastic image, and she deserved every one of those! Congrats!

  10. Trekkie says:

    Congrats winners! You all deserved it.
    Everyone did amazingly this time round, so well done everyone else, too!

  11. ams says:

    Thanks for the votes, fellow machineheads and congrats to the other winners. Hopefully we will see everyone back for the 200th!

    Cheers!

  12. headlessgeneral says:

    Congratulations to all the winners!

  13. Iscarioto says:

    Congrats everybody, some amazing talent here, so many ideas from outside of the box. Mind blowing!