Monthly Archives: November 2013

HM3 Save Dialog Bug Fix

Earlier today I changed a setting for how ads are displayed in HM3. In a word, it was broken before -- ads weren't clickable in most of the major browsers. So I changed the stacking order of the app and the ad and now the ads actually function. Hooray! Before they were just annoying without actually generating revenue but now they do both!

Unfortunately that introduced several problems, one of which was the cancel button on the Save dialog box was obscured by the ad. That's been fixed now (you might have to clear your browser cache).

The other major problem is that the ads also show on the full-screen preview. I don't know how to fix that but I'll start working on it tomorrow.

30 Characters in 30 Days Challenge 2013, Day 4: Mansplainer

Fresh from a successful mission explaining to Wonder Woman the role of the Greek pantheon in modern comics life, Mansplainer is now on his way to tell you exactly what it is you're doing wrong, ladies. You're welcome.

Day4

Character Design Contest ♯48- Be Inspired

This week I'm going to try something a bit different. Instead of giving you a set topic which you have to stick to, I'm going to give you free reign to create what ever you want. However, I have one proviso, this week I've been looking at a lot of art inspired by music and visa versa, so I want you to create something inspired by a piece of music. It doesn't have to be connected to the content of the song, but I want you to try to capture the feeling of that song in your work. Hopefully this will lead to some very good art work from you all. You can do characters, abstracts, landscapes, anything. The one rule I have this week is I want you to put the song title and artist name in the comment when you post your work, because I can't judge how well your art captures the music if I don't know what song you've done. And don't worry about me not liking the song. I'm pretty open in my music tastes, as long as it isn't Justin Bieber or Music Concrete (don't ask).

Hopefully this isn't too complicated. I am going to put a limit on entries this week, 3 per person.Ā The contest will close at 12am Sunday (blog time). Please read the 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.

No “WWTT” Today/ Open Critique Day

Sorry about this, I know I did the same thing on last week's Sci-fi Corner and Big Question. Uni has just started to get really hectic and I haven't been able to find much time to come up with stuff to write about. Hopefully I won't be getting rid of either, I'll try to get them in when I have time or if there's something come up that I feel merits special inclusion, but this week it doesn't look like that's going to happen.

On a slightly more positive note, I have found another person to do a Power User Profile and I've contacted another two (at time of writing), so thankfully the PUP's won't be going anywhere for at least another week.

Anyway, we haven't had an Open Critique Day in a while, so feel free to use the comments below as such or to make suggestions for subjects for any of the above mentioned topics that you'd like to see covered (What Were They Thinking, Sci-Fi Corner, Screen Spotlight, Big Question or Power User Profiles) and if I like 'em I'll try to cover them.

To quote AMS; 'Cheers'

November 2nd Pop Quiz Winner!

atomicpunk-citrine Calvary_Red-Emperor_of_the_Autumn_Wood KericFallQueen Melmo44-Autumna sorbus__the_wood_nypmph_by_babylonarch-d6sxgke

Five great entries this week, and as always the decision is never as easy as it initially seems. Have gone back and forth on this one a few times, but I've got to give it to The Atomic Punk this week, although Calvary Red was a VERY close second. Good job everyone. Congratulations!

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On a personal note, the next month is going to be very busy professionally as I am working on four shows simultaneously. As such I will not have time to post the Costume Blog for the next little while. I should be back up an running the first week in December to return to the blog and post the Pop Quiz on December 6th.

 

30 Characters in 30 Days Challenge 2013: Day 3 – They call me Mr. Crabs

And now for something completely different.

Day3

Character Design Contest ♯47 (Ghosts) Poll

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Character Design Contest ♯46 (Cosmic) Winner

So, we had some excellent entries for last weeks CDC and, accordingly, the poll was close. However, this didn't stop it from being another win for prswirve for hisĀ Hawk Interceptor. I do believe that's now your fifth win, sir.

46- prswirve-hawk_interceptor

30 Days Challenge 2013 Day 2: Iron Spear the Demon Haunted

The obscure and isolated tribe of Native Americans had never heard of Christ, or the Hell He claimed to save the White Man from, or the steel and iron used to subjugate the land. Until they did, and then it was almost too late. I say almost, because a shaman of the Tribe happened to chance upon a dark ritual outside one of the wooden stockades the invaders had spread like a pox, and a demon intended for the innocent lad invaded him instead. But the soul of a Sioux was made of different stuff than the hellspawn of the West was used to, and in place of subjugation the two joined in a once-in-an-eternity pact to fight their mutual enemy.

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Pop Quiz – November 2nd, 2013 – The Spirit of Autumn

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Your Pop Quiz Challenge for November is to create a sprite, fairy, nymph or any other creature for that matter, which resides in, and embodies the spirit of, the autumn forest.

You only get one entry so be creative, and above all else, have fun!

All entries must be in JPG or PNG formĀ (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (likeĀ the HeroMachine forums,ImageShack,Ā PhotoBucket, or 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 must be new and designed specifically for the Pop Quiz;
  • No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
  • Please name your filesĀ as [your name]-[character name].[file extension]Ā before you upload it. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his ā€œBayou Belleā€ character image asĀ DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.
  • Please make the link goĀ directly to the imageĀ (likeĀ this) andĀ not to a hosting jump pageĀ (likeĀ this).Ā See this post on how to get the direct link for most sites.

This contest will close at 9pm Eastern on Sunday, November 3rd.