Last year we did a challenge where I asked you to do a piece of art on Heromachine that was inspired by a piece of music of your choice. Now I enjoyed that contest so much, I've decided to do it again.
As with last time we did this contest, you can do any kind of art, character, background, abstract etc. for this contest. I will be judging on how well I feel the piece illustrates the music, not just by lyrical content (so you can do art for an instrumental) but also the feeling of the music. As such for you work to be eligible you must include a link to a youtube video or sound cloud page of the song your art is portraying (don't send download links). Don't worry about me not liking the song and judging your work down because of that, I'll be objective, and anyway, I'm pretty open in my music tastes.
As per usual, no limits on entries this week and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). The winner gets to claim a custom made item from dblade to be put into heromachine, so long as the item conforms to his prize rules, which you can find here: http://www.heromachine.com/forum/the-heromachine-art-gallery/dblades-whiz-bang-item-dispenser/. Please read the contest 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.
First comment! 😉 ok ill try this
ok first time its my first time trying to do a pose so please go easy on me and i do not know how to shade so please here is the link http://s1275.photobucket.com/user/Agsfg_Dfrhgfr/media/hm3-beta4_zps5bd1f1eb.png.html?sort=3&o=0 its from gangnam style i think we all know what this is but just in case http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 i tried the one in the last fottage
Ok, maybe I didn’t make this clear, your piece don’t have to have anything to do with the content of any music video that may have gone with the song you chose, in fact I would highly discourage you doing that. I know this weeks concept is very abstract but it’s interpretation not imitation (if that makes any sense).
here is a piece i made some time ago
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/gargantua/2014/01/000000000000.png (well it is preaty dark but i don’t have a save to fix it so i puting what i got)
and here is a music
i may make somethig now leter
Rhapsody? Nice!
actualy it is only song by them i know
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/gargantua/2014/06/hm3-beta-1.png
Here’s a picture I did a while back. Perhaps it’s not my best work, but what the heck?
It wasn’t so much inspired by a song so much as an ideal aesthetic that multiple songs were written to reach for, but none have perfectly achieved. As such, I’ll instead pair it with the song which, I think, comes closest to achieving this ideal.
Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISdeiheoP9w
Image: http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/jadebrain/2014/06/Lenarr-Patron-Saint-of-AWESOME.png
(By the way, is the old image file naming protocol still in effect? I remember,for old contests, there was a certain way the file should be named, but I can’t remember what it was, and there’s no mention of it on the blog post.)
I’m one of those weird people who actually hear a song or a set of lyrics and can branch off an entire story line from it…so this contest should be fun. Probably gonna try and do at least one more entry, but first up is pretty experimental for me, as I’ve never really tried to make a scene before. The song is “Unbreak my Heart” by Toni Braxton…and the scene is supposed to be the MysteryMan kneeling at the grave of his wife. You guys can tell me if I pulled it off.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/livewyre/unbreak-livewyrepng_zps62efb012.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/livewyre/unbreak-livewyrepng_zps62efb012.png
These are some great concepts.
I truly recommend to anyone reviewing each entry, that you get the music going first then open the image for the full effect.
Cheers!
Here is my First ( and Possibly only) Entry
The Sister of Pain
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/kaldath/2014/06/Sister-Of-Pain.PNG
Based on the Vince Neil Song “Sister Of Pain”
@ KSW
While your entry doesn’t really fit the spirit of this contest I have to say it’s a pretty damn good imitation.
Maria I Braganza: Queen of New Portugal
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/stulte/2014/04/Maria-I-Braganza-2.png
Daughter of Darkness by Tom Jones was a big inspiration: both the semi-hispanic melodies and the lyrics.
And something more closely tied to the song:
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/stulte/2014/06/99.PNG
Just noticed the left margin of my latest entry. Here’s a revised version:
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/stulte/2014/06/99-1.PNG
hope I did it right.
Art: http://pmd-warrior.deviantart.com/art/God-Vs-The-Devil-463350232
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8j34xvrV3k
This is my first entry for the contest. Everyone’s favourite rock…Loadstone.
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/anarchangel/2014/06/Anarchangel-Loadstone.png
And I’m not sure if I’m posting this link correctly but here’s the song that inspired it.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7iLERCEznI&w=560&h=315%5D
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/keric/2014/06/Heart-of-Stone.PNG
Song: Taylor Dayne’s Heart of stone
I had fun with this contest.
Of course I have aften done satyr pipers, and recently posted some in the Poses contest.
But I wanted to do a new one that was more abstract about the feeling of the music and not just the musician playing it.
Reprsented is Pan in the void piping forth the planet in various plants in various colors bound with water and music
Creation
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_Creatioon_zps74a7c04f.jpg
PERFECT SUNSET & Midori – Secrets ( from Secret of the
Panpipes
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As a kid this song got to me every time.
I recently found out the dog didn’t drown as I had thought for like 30 years, the lines “… she’s drifting out to sea, she always loved to swim away” came from Gross’s neighbors being so loud when he wrote the song, he listened to a relaxing surf recording and it wormed it’s way into the lyrics LOL
Shannon
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_Shannon_zpse5af0164.jpg
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I was such a hormonal little queen back in my prepubescent years. I was sure I would never find someone to love.
NEVER thought it would be a woman!
25 year anniversary this 4th of July.
Who’d have thunk.
All By Myself
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_AllByMyself_zps830d3f56.jpg
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I didn’t illustrate the lyrics here but the music. Nuff said. 😀
Jazz
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_Jazz_zps0b21f0a9.jpg
When The Saints Go Marching In
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I had done one similar to this for the Aquarius contest, and got an Honorable Mention.
But I had always noticed the hands were off,
so with all the new stuff and my better knowledge ofHM3
here is my birthsign
Age of Aquarius
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_Aquarius_Hair002_zps15fba07a.jpg
Here is one more from me.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_MoonRiver_zpsd4df873a.jpg
Moon River
I’ve had music in my RP games and Hero Machine since I’ve been doing both.
Here is one of my AD&D 2nd Ed characters:
Levanah, a preistess of the Moon Goddess Seluna
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/LavanahDance001a_zps80837a37.jpg
We All Come From The Goddess
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When I did this satyr peice for Leap Year
this is the song I listened to. >}:^{D>
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/LeapDaySatyr001a_zps5ced0868.jpg
Jump
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My friend John and I have a long time rock and roll game.
Hecate Barnes, used to be a high tech hero called the Screech Owl, she is the president of Moon Aerie Entertainment, and major stockholder, a chantuesse in her own right she also owns the nightclub Nightingales where she sometimes sings. She is married to “rock satyr” Tim Breibois front man for The Haunted. They are polyamorous with another couple August Deleth and Dee Dee Dada and Tim has fathered their children.
Hecate Barnes
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/HecateBarnes_zps4764a828.jpg
k. d. lang – Miss Chatelaine
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This is one of Moon Aerie Entertainment’s other muscians Mark Xavier Linbrook aka “Marx” 19yr old emo lead guitarist
of the band Black Rain
He’s dating the Black Rain’s leader Gerald Lay (yes its
basically Gerald Way from My Chemical Romance)
Marx goes to Juliard and is a top notch guitarist
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/MarxGuitar00_zps926c787d.jpg
The secret machines – Lightning blue eyes
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Here is the self titled album XYZ
for a Chill horro RP game of ours set in 1972 London England
Xavier MacDonald, Mickey Young and Zoe Padbury.
The band is early and progressive rockand here is their first album cover I did on HM3
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/XYZ_01_zps26c763da.jpg
Uriah Heep – Easy Livin’
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Monkstrap from Cats
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/MonkstrapHM3_02a_zps9a8a9234.jpg
Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats – Dubbed with Broadway
Dreams In Digital:
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/nug/2014/06/Dreams-In-Digital.PNG
Orgy – Fiction
My entry:
Rising Faith
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/linea24/2014/06/Linea24-Rising-Faith-2.png
Song:
Retrouvailles by David Gay-Perret
http://youtu.be/eGUE8QH0-wA
Freya:
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2014/177/9/b/freya_by_vectorman316-d7o2m4p.png
Song:
Freya by The Sword
One more from me.
Fairy Burst
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/linea24/2014/06/Linea24-Fairy-Burst.png
Song:
Birth of Fairies by Alex Must
http://youtu.be/Q_Rnop6iyBc
Based on Turn, Turn, Turn! by the Byrds and the biblical quote the lyrics come from.
I envisioned it as the final speech a hero would make before sacrificing himself to save his teammates.
“There is a time for everything. A time to live and a time to die. I’m afraid its the latter for me. Go on, I’ll hold them off.”
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/vampyrist/2014/06/Vampyrist-ATimeToDie.png
Hopefully I can do at least one more, but here’s the first two. Both from Judas Priest songs.
1. Angel
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/melmo44/2014/06/Melmo44-Angel.png
2. Blood Red Skies
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/melmo44/2014/06/Melmo44-Blood-Red-Skies.jpg
Hopefully I can do at least one more, but here’s the first two. Both from Judas Priest songs.
1. Angel- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7mQp7oAjm4
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/melmo44/2014/06/Melmo44-Angel.png
2. Blood Red Skies- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtnW8w3e-7Q
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/melmo44/2014/06/Melmo44-Blood-Red-Skies.jpg
OK, I have more,
I hope I don’t get anyone angry sharing so many.
I look at it catching up for the two years I was hardly posting 😀
Coyote Shield
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_WolfSheild_zps5547db3f.png
Coyote Dance
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Yogi – my satyr haiku poet and sumi-e and calligraphy artist.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_YagiSatyrHaijin001_zps23c0a8a3.png
Rin’ – sakura sakura
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Vitas is a Russian musician/ performer I used as inspiration
for a hero Banshee character in a supernatural/horror game
28yr old Victor Grant/Viktor Grachov,
avante guarde artiste: (singer, writer, actor, fashion designer)
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Vitas_Body_zps118f4a7c.jpg
Vitas – Body (Тело)
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Jan aka Elemental Lad from our Legion of Super Heroes
Yes, even in the 30th century they have the
Rocky Horror Picture Show
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/ElementLad_RHPS01a_zps41c201ab.jpg
RHPS The Floor Show
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Hugh Spectrum aka Kalidascope Kid
My version of Legion Of Substitute Hero Color Kid/Ulu Vakk after he went back to the 20th century, as so many LSHers
did LOL, and assumed a secret identity and alternated Hero
persona, and gained better control of his powers.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/KalidescopeKid001a_zps89502ef3.jpg
True Colors
actually any song from the fabulous True Colors tour
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Kara, the only demi god level AD&D character I’ve ever had.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Kara002a_zps16a3abf6.jpg
Ride Of The Valkeries
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Salif of Vulcan, Security Cheif of the Intrepid NCC 1631A
under Capt. Robert Mason.
Salif was married to Dr. BreAhnya, a Rigelian
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Salif03_zpsf3b3a0cf.jpg
Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan Theme
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Gabhran the Scottish Satyr
I’ve always been very proud that I had discovered how to
make HM3 bagpipes.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/ScottishSatyr001a_zps7fc5abac.jpg
Scotland The Brave on bagpipes
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Time Empress
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/TimeEmperess01_zpsc28fcc76.jpg
ELO – Prologue/Twilight
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Killer Queen(Killian Quinn) is my Wrestler,
He is an outrageous out and proud wrestler, who bares an
amazing resemblence to Freddy Mercury. He loves to humiliate his straight opponents.
He started out as a Heel but oddly enough became a Face
despite, or maybe because of, his outrageous antics and
notable feud with Tasty Tommy Wu..
From 1997 – 2008 – He had been in U.W.L. Universal
Wrestling League located in Dallas Texas with Roy Dale as
Owner/General Manager
In 2012 Roy Dale opened Universal Wrestling Entertainment.
With the first televised match in 2013 with Killer Queen as Talent Scout and Interviewer with a weekly interview show on
Wednesdays called “KQ’s Q&A” on the set of Queen’s Court.
With “Killer Queen” playing over the opening credits.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/KillerQueenRing_zps6c148f0d.jpg
Killer Queen
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Xippili – my ancient Aztec (Palladium) super hero came to present day, and after watching some tv movies actually did
this. LOL
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/XipilliRiskyBuisness001a_zps128a8835.jpg
Old Time Rock & Roll
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Bruce
I’m sorry I was in a satyr mood in HM3 when the song came on …
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/SatyrSpringstein001a_zps69e417bd.jpg
Born In The USA
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Harvest Moon
I did this as part of a series for the Pagan Holidays
which I intended as cards. So listened to this as I created it.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/HarvestMoon_zps8e6e80ef.jpg
Shine On Harvest Moon
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Shirley Birthday
OK while the pic doesn’t reflect the song, my freind and her
(now ex) always used to sing this version of the Birthday Dirge
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/HappyBirthdayShirley01b_zpsef16e12b.jpg
Barbarian’s Birthday by Clan Na Gael.
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Vanyell Delacroix is my vampire pen name in which I wrote a
book of vampire poetry “In Another Vein” (available at SynergEbooks)
Here is one of the all time favorite vampire songs I listened
to whenever I was in a vampire mood, including making my
fictional vampire portrait.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/VanyellDelacroix01a_zps17741eff.jpg
Slept So Long – Queen of the Damned
indeed any Queen of the Damned song
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Lone Star is a Skilled hero for my Texas Rangers super hero
team.
And here is one icon with another.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Lonestar01a_zpseff73d36.jpg
Ballad Of The Alamo-Marty Robbins Lyrics
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Pirate Samantha
I made this birthday card for a friend who loves pirates,
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/HappyBirthdaySam001a_zps284f89bb.jpg
Here was my inspiration.
Black Velvet Band, The Irish Rovers
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Felicia Faust my character for Suicide Squad game.
Mystic daughter of villian sorcerer Felix Faust.
One of the few really bad characters I have.
She got a teammate killed just for insulting her father, a major pet peeve of hers.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/FeliciaFaust01_zpsc31e2b98.jpg
If her pic bares a resemblence to Black Canary action figure, it’s only because it’s what I based her look on, which that
figure looked NOTHING like Black Canary I knew in the comics, so I didn’t feel bad about it.
She actually had a soundtrack: (I don’t expect people to listen to all of them, heck ya might not have even waded through the post this far. But it’s here if you like)
Witchy Woman – Eagles
Dark Lady – Cher
Evil Woman – ELO
Bad To The Bone – George Thorogood
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, I Put a Spell on You
Rufus Wainwright – Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
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Moon Aerie’s Music Mixer was a software product Haunted keyboardist Ronnie Storm created.
The Haunted’s first big hit was Whole Of The Moon.
Ths song gets to me every time. Can’t begin to tell ya how many emotional moments were had between characters to
this song.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/MoonAerieMusicMixerLogo_zps5673b369.jpg
Whole Of The Moon – The Waterboys
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Muse Music Store logo
William “Willy” Capra. He started working in a music store at
14 as a cd stocker, and through the years works up to
manager, then is left the store when the owner dies, which
with his obsession with music her turns into a huge music
industry.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/MuseMusic_zpsf819d815.jpg
The Muse by Darren Criss (cover)
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satyr DJ Billy Beats is the DJ at Elysiam nightclub which caters to Changelings as well as Dreamers.
It’s DJ Billy Beats job to keep the party jumping with his
frentic beats and outragous personality and style.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/DJBillyBeats002_zpsefbd25e2.jpg
Pleasurekraft – Satyr Song
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Thumper
is an Elven scout/messenger.
He ended up mated to the Giant Slayer Dwarf “Savage Sam
The Dwarf I Am” and thanks to a Girdle of Masculinity/Femininity he gave birth to their child, then finally
got a Remove Curse, got the belt off and slapped it onto
Sam so HE could nurse their Dwelf child Flint.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Thumper003a_zps35a6d09d.jpg
Beautiful Forest Elf Music – Elven Sanctuary
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Heavy Metal Bard
OK, yes I can get very silly, but when ya have songs like this
to inspire you ….
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/HeavyMetalBard001a_zpsaea0a103.jpg
Canon Rock (Mandolin Cover) Played By Legend_Of_Wii
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Leroy ran away from his abusive home and lives in the old abandoned car dealership where his father had worked,now a junk yard.
He sleeps in the light blue car.
He only has the gun to protect himself from any crazies.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Leroy_zps564a159e.jpg
ADULT LANGUAGE!!!
Forgot About Dre ★ Bass Mechanix Remix ★ Trap Music 2012
I Hung My Head
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/vampyrist/2014/06/Vampyrist-HungMyHead.png
The Man Comes Around
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/vampyrist/2014/06/Vampyrist-ManComesAround.png
I see them as an angel of death that appear near death scenes, like the Observers in Fringe
Colonization of the Islands:
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/stulte/2014/06/Colonization.PNG
Inspired by Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky
Psycho (I know real original):
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/voel/2014/06/phsyco.jpg
Song: I’m I a psycho?- Tech 9
@gemmashine- Neither of the comments you’ve posted have anything in them. I can’t judge something that isn’t there.
One of the earlier Terran hits on W-H-A-T radio.
http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2014hm/HerrD-OEOHFPPE_zps5871ccfa.png
http://www.ask.com/youtube?q=one-eyed+one-horned&v=Rx47qrH1GRs&qsrc=472
I was bored at work and listening to Prince’s Batman soundtrack when I came up with the concept of “Vigilante Inc.” at first I was just trying to capture the feeling of your average campy 80’s sci fi film
but I have been fleshing out the the characters and there story lately and this track off of that album was a huge influence on what I came up with….
https://soundcloud.com/mr-sleaze/the-future-remix
The story takes place in a late 80’s action movie version of the future. The massive sprawl that is “St. Marc City” is riddled with crime and corruption. A clandestine group known only as The Sponsors is funding a covert crime fighting unit to serve and protect the citizens of St. Marc by any means necessary. We enter this world as former police commissioner Farrah Haddad is in the process of recruiting her team for the task The Sponsors have given her. She enlists the aid of three highly trained individuals with special abilities. Brilliant ex SMPD detective Lucas Rook enhanced with advanced cybernetics, telekinetic kunoichi Akiko Black, and Jaxon Belmont a gifted marksman. Together they are the future of Justice….
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/son4_album/vigilanteinc2.png
Herr D – my wife Brenda lover Purple People Eater and was dancing in her chair listening to it. It used to be her mother’s fave song when she was alive.
And regarding your pic of it, Bre says she likes it, but she hates it if it wins over me LOL
Great piece dewd. It could win due to it’s whimsy and great execution of course.
Ok guys, this weeks contest is closed. The poll will be up shortly.