Eeyup, we're doing this one again, because it's always great fun. The idea, for those of you who don't remember, or weren't around last time, is that you create an image to fit a piece of music of your choice. So you could create a serene background scene to fit with a piece of soothing orchestral music or you could create a random colour explosion to some dubstep, the possibilities are limitless. I will be judging the entrants on how well I feel their images portray the music they have chosen, so I must ask that you include a link to a youtube video or sound cloud page where I can listen to the song, not to a page where the song can be downloaded. If you don't include the song, I can't judge your piece and it will be disqualified. I don't care what music you chose, I have a very broad taste in music and I won't mark anyone down for their music choice. That being said, I'd rather not have to sit around for 10- 20 minutes just staring at your pic because that's how long the song is, no matter how good either are, so please try to keep the song choices less than 10 minutes long please.
Anyway, I've decided to put a limit off 5 entries per person this week (because if judging each picture takes 5 minutes on average due to song length and we get 12 entries, that's an hour of judging) and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). 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.
Mine. Rise from the Abyss. The song is Heart of Courage by Two Steps From Hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRLdhFVzqt4
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Rise-from-the-Abyss.jpg
Entry #1
OK talk about serendipity.
I just recently made satyr raver Justin McKinney’s living room loft
when I first made a HM3 satyr party animal , he was just a concept with no actual name or story.
Since then I took some inspiration from Queer As Folk and fused 3 parts Brian Kinney with 1 part Justin Taylor, a dash of McKinney, Texas a town close to my hometown, and mixed with Changling the Dreaming.
So Justin McKinney is all about partying, drinking,smoking grass and doing E, one night stands and is stuck on himself, as illustrated by the tasteful artistic framed nudes of himself on the wall
and of course this song from one my last music contest entries was the perfect inspiration.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_Music_SaturSong_zpsrby403zf.jpg
Pleasurekraft – Satyr Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvsy6Ibtb0U
Entry #2
Here is party animal Justin McKinney, a wilder satyr raver.
Justin almost always wears a half shirt of some kind and blue jean cutoffs along with friendship bracelets and/or neon braclets.
Justin has a maple leaf tattoo on his left arm since he was so stoned when he got it he thought it was a marjuana leaf.
at the changeling club “Elysium”
dancing with Justin is Cat Pooka Kit Kat
and red cap Vik Vicious
to the psytrance magic of DJ Sylver Sidhe
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_Music_SatyrDemon_zpsb9qdz7hv.jpg
Tryambaka – Satyr Demons
@hawk007
LOVE Two Steps From Hell! I was thinking of doing one of their pieces, but you may have taken the best one. 🙂 But everything they do is amazing…
Ha, sorry. :/ But yeah, they’re great.
Character
http://s1382.photobucket.com/user/ethanshluker/media/hm3-beta%202_zpsjbotntkv.png.html
Song
Its kind of scary because last week I was actually thinking about the music theme contest.
any way here’s my entry I couldn’t think of a song so I put my phone and shuffle and this song came up.
art- http://pmd-warrior.deviantart.com/art/Straight-Lines-526841517?ga_submit_new=10%253A1429005972
song- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47P3bzefCVI
Character
http://s1382.photobucket.com/user/ethanshluker/media/hm3-beta%203_zps27gac0yv.png.html
Song
My entry:
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Madpac-HeavenHell.png
The song I chose:
So I might be violating a couple of rules – firstly, I think I made this about two years ago (but I don’t think I’ve entered this in a compo before), secondly, it’s quite heavily influenced by the music video.
But whales.
My entry:
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/legacy/forum-image-uploads/iscarioto/2013/02/Iscarioto_WhispersWastedInTheSand.PNG
Inspired by Woodkid ~ I Love You:
https://youtu.be/KQu8FOjJXdI
Cheers guys
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Centerfold.png
the song Centerfold by the J.geils band
Link:
I wonder how you will judge a character based on a song which isn’t in English. Still, I will try.
All those characters are quite old (very very very old, like 2010 year’s old) but I never entered them in contests before, so why not. I can’t win anything with those anyway and just sharing some of my favourite songs this way.
1. Master of the Forest. Character – http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/263/0/e/malfar_forester_by_malfar-d2z5z5l.jpg
Song: Korol i Shut – Master of the Forest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQgbuHxeMjk
The song tells about an undead guardian of some forest. He has a knife, a crossbow, he lives for more than 1000 years, animals and forest imps obey him.
2. An Evildoer and a Hat. Character – http://orig14.deviantart.net/b491/f/2015/105/6/c/an_evil_man_and_a_hat_by_malfar-d8psbw5.jpg
Song: Korol i Shut – An Evildoer and a Hat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLYZl1wNHDs
The song tells about an evil guy who bought a magic hat and lost a head trying to take the hat off.
3. A Fool and a Lightning. Character – http://orig11.deviantart.net/28e6/f/2015/105/c/7/a_fool_and_a_lightning_by_malfar-d8pscwk.jpg
Song: Korol i Shut – A Fool and a Lightning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5QZ85TuAio
The song tells about a stupid guy who tried to catch a lightning and hide it in his bag.
4. Trader of Nightmares. Character – http://orig04.deviantart.net/4925/f/2015/105/c/c/trader_of_nightmares_by_malfar-d8psdik.jpg
Song: Korol i Shut – Trader of Nightmares https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP3AiXb4FkI
The song tells about a guy who sells nightmares made of phosforic paint and scary masks.
5. Richard Gordon. Character – http://orig10.deviantart.net/35da/f/2015/105/5/9/richard_gordon_by_malfar-d8pse8g.jpg
Song: Korol i Shut – Richard Gordon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6pzg0ETKSE
The song tells about a guy who hunts undead creatures, but struggles to find those evil things because they don’t exist.
The Emperor
http://i.imgur.com/1KnSUBm.jpg
http://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=VJuXKeiM4_0#Mot%C3%B6rhead_-_King_of_Kings
Bête Noire
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Bete-Noire.png
Song: Theme from the movie “Saw” (by Charlie Clouser) – A wonderfully crafted piece of chilling music
Teresa Teng (The Nighthingale of China) one of her most beloved song: Yue liang dai biao wo de xin – The Moon Represents my Heart
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l274/Healingbear/The%20Moon%20Represents%20my%20Heart%20Thundersong_zpsjbpwriv1.png
Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_cEeDlop0
Translation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B5gAczFJps
WELL CRAP!
I was about to post my 3rd Entry, but after Thundersong’s The Moon Represents My Heart, I almost don’t want to bother LOL
It is SO FRIGGIN LOVELY!
I bow before you.
I worked on it too hard, to not post it, but SHEESH!
Entry #3
I made my first HM3 pic of Koi on Oct 15, 2014
from a concept I wanted of a Japanese Aqualad type
character in a koi patterned speedo,
I did this pic of Koi about 3 days ago, after I posted Justin
McKinney, constantly tinkering till it wouldn’t let me anymore
since the majority of koi have pattern on them and was
REALLY slowing me down, I came up with the background
story in the last two days. working on background character
names all day yesterday from name meanings or mashups of
famous people in whatever career I needed. Koi’s story is still mostly storyboarded and not actually written out yet, but have to post it sometime.
I’m laying most of my cards on this one entry (of three,
maybe four if I’m lucky) this time, instead of the 30? I did last Inspired By Music contest. LOL 😀
Koi
(or Nishikigoi in Japan)
Real Name: Gosanke Taisho
Other Aliases: “Ningyo”, “Subject”, “Ichirou”, “Ichi-kun”,
“Ichi-chan”, “Sakuraba”
Relatives: Hattori Nagato (Paternal DNA donor)
Momochi Chiyome Maternal DNA donor)
Kangofu Kenta (Surrogate “father”)
Maeda Naomi (surrogate “mother” deceased)
Affiliation:
Base Of Operations: Fort Worth, Texas
Status
Alignment: Good
Identity: Public Identity
Citizenship: Japanese/American
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Adventurer
Characteristics
Gender: Male
Height: 5′ 8″
Weight: 175 lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Origin
Place of Birth: Nagaoka, Japan
SKILLS:
Languages: Japanese, English (more to be determined).
Diving,
Swimming,
Acrobatics, Gymnastics, Tumbling,
Jumping,
Climbing,
Running,
Stealth: Move Silently, Hide, Concealment,
Tracking/Trailing,
Survival,
Observation,
Spotting, Setting and Disarming Traps,
Martial Arts,
Weapons Master,
Meditation,
Tea Ceremony,
Bonsai (miniature tree pruning),
Ikebana (flower arranging),
Haiku poetry,
Calligraphy (painting and writing brushwork)
POWERS:
Amphibious Nature: Koi can breathe both water and air, but
must return to the aquatic environment at various intervals;
this length can be prolonged by the humidity in the
atmosphere. Koi breathes by extracting oxygen from the
water through tiny pores in his skin.
Enhanced Sight: His ability to see in the murky depths of the
ocean allows him exceptional night vision while on land. Koi
has excellent close range vision and he can see particularly
well in low light.
Enhanced Hearing: He has several times more acute than
human capacity. His sense of hearing is particularly acute,
although, because the rate sound travels on dry land is
different than beneath the water, his hearing is directly linked to his vision.
Enhanced Physiology: His bloodstream is filled with an amino
acid that keeps his body from freezing in the ocean depths,
although his own temperature is naturally quite high, allowing his muscles the heat they need to swim at such high speeds.
This physiology means he can survive indefinitely underwater
or on land (though he would still need occasional contact with water to survive) this length can be prolonged by the
humidity in the air.
Superhuman Strength: He can lift approximately 8 tons.
Superhuman Stamina
Superhuman Speed: He can swim at speeds of 97.76 knots
(or 85 MPH).
Superhuman Durability: He can survive at depths of up to
3,400 feet below surface level. His body contains fluids that
adjust to give him buoyancy at varying depths. His body also
produces gases that push out against the ocean pressures
as heavily as they push in, preventing him from being
crushed at great depths. His body is also highly impervious
to physical injury.
Marine Telepathy: Koi has a form of telepathy which works
on other aquatic life.
HISTORY
Nagaoka, Japan
Top Secret Project NINGYO
Lead by General Kobayashi Kotarō
Kihara Yusuke a male Geneticist
Maeda Naomi – female Psychologist – Basic Skills Teaching
Katayama Hiraku a Computer Technologist/ Engineer
owns several cats, he is a videogame playing, manga/anime,
sci fi, fan boy nerd. Came up with Subliminal Teaching
machine from concepts of Matrix and other Sci Fi media.
Hiraku usually ribs Kenta about his name meaning Nurse and
the hentai manga.anime Warau Kangofu suggesting Kenta must be “taking
advantage” of Ichi-kun when Kenta is on shift since the man
is gay.
Ishikawa Jinichi – Teacher – (Ninja Training)
Kangofu Kenta – male Medic to monitor the condition and
feed the teaching programs into the cybernetic teacher
some of the scientist were told it was a project to make a
aquatic adaptable human to win gold in Olympics swimming
and diving,
of course the real goal was to use the specimen in espionage
and military.
5 year program to grow a specimen to the equivalent of a 20
year old
DNA was taken from two agents
Hattori Nagato a ninja trained assassin
and Momochi Chiyome a Computer Espionage Expert
each year the specimen would age 4 years
every 3 months the subject aging the equivalent of 1 year
new subliminal teaching technology was developed (from
Matrix and other concepts) for knowledge subjects and skills
as well as physical training for body/muscle memory and
development
During his sleep cycles the boy was fitted with the
subliminal teacher and keep learning and then kept in a
gestation capsule, filled with fluids which continued to work
and develop and monitor him till the end of the fifth year of
the experiment.
The experimental boy was called “Ningyo” by General
Kobayashi,
“Subject” by geneticist Yusuke and teacher Jinichi (and
“Subject” always had to call Jinichi “Sensai”),
“Ichirou” and eventually “Ichi-kun” or “Ichi-chan” by
psycologist Naomi and medic Kenta,
and “Sakuraba” by computer tech Hiraku based off a
computer game .
Medic Kenta decided to teach subject some cultural skills to
give him some balance
Psychologist Naomi decided to add to skill set to balance him
Computer tech Hiraku decided to add to skills to give the
subject some humanity
During the beginning of the last year, Subject Ningyo
equivelent to a 16 year old
he was a given new black wet suit to cover him from neck to
foot.
one day sensai Jinichi
came back suspecting the subject’s training had been
tampered with as subject was reluctant to perform killing
blows.
Jinichi caught psychologist Naomi teaching the subject
Ikebana flower arranging
Jinichi killed Naomi, slitting her throat
Ichirou went berserk and fought his ninja sensai
surprising Junichi with maneuvers he did not teach, as well
as his superhuman strength, speed and endurance.
General Kobayashi came in with security guards
Ichirou leaped over them and ran
the general received a report that the Subject escaped the
complex, taking out several people and guards
Jinichi was sent after him
Koi fought his sensei again for a long time
but after a long savage battle eventually defeated him
He eventually made it into the ocean
and swam away
the remaining scientist on the experiment were concerned for Inchirou since he still had teaching to learn on some basic
subjects and skills as well as more procedures to slow down
his growing so he would live much longer than a human as to
be virtually immortal. As it was Ichirou would continue to age 4 years for every one.
Ichirou ran afoul of a toxic pool from the massive tsunami cIt
contained oil, radioactive waste and other deadly chemicals
which ate through his wet suit and before long left it in tatters
disorientated and weak due to the chemicals
dolphins helped push Ichirou out of danger
made it to America
As he crawled out of the surf his wet suit fell away and
the unique chemical coctail had strangely stained his swin
trunks
He stowed away on a plane in the cargo hold
the plane flew away across the United States.
Eventually the plane landed
Ichirou snuck off,
subduing a worker
made it to military plane
jumping onto wheel and getting into plane as wheel retracted
landed at Fort Worth Military Base
escaped from the plane and hanger
taking out several military personal
Theodore “Teddy” Straton,
Robert “Rob” Washington,
Arthur “Art” Werner
was shot by sniper Mark Pearce
a graze across the temple
he jumped the fence
ran across road to Jack In The Box
hide in truck bed under tarp with with supplies
was driven to Fort Worth Botanical Gardens
heard Japanese music
snuck out of the truck bed
jumped fence
hid in bamboo
end of day for Festival
people left
made it to water
passed out and fell in
next morning found swimming in a koi pond at the Japanese
Gardens.
He had no memory of who he was or why he was in the Koi
pond, but says he was talking to the fish.
Japanese American photographer Ken Mihama took pics
Japanese Wedding wedding party along with other Garden
patrons took cellphone pics
Koi pond gardener/attendant Natsumi “Nat” Koka asked him
his name,
which he didn’t know, and wasn’t even sure what a name
was.
Nat told him his name, and the photographer told his name
and some of the guest told their names.
the boy didn’t know why but felt a comfortable familiurarity
with the photographer’s name.
Nat named him Gosanke after a catagory of Koi after the koi
like patten on his Speedo and him supposedly talking to them
and Taisho Sanshoku being a variety of Gosanke Koi, The
boy liked Gosanke Taisho with the Japanese surname being
first, and given name second
people asked him to prove he was talking to the fish
he told them to go back, then come up, to go left then right
someone accused him of using hand signals
he pointed left but told them to go right, they went right
told then to go back put pointed forwards they went back
told them to go left and pointed left
they went left
etc
Ken took pics
patrons took cellphone pics
the people were amazed
Was taken into custody by Officer Frank Starr for his own
welfare and to discover who he was and where he was from.
John Henry Wyatt – Tarrent County Medical Examiner
checked him out
Taisho growing irritable at being called a subject to the point
of almost becoming violent.
Taisho’s story and photo was written up in the Fort Worth
Star Telegram newpaper
the US Military read about Taisho in the paper
US Military liason Mike Crawford got Taisho from jail
US Military Doctor Benjermin Jones
US Military Scientist James Franklin King
US Military General George Appomattox in charge of the
project
and tested him and his capabilities with marine fife
physical strength
endurance
time capable of staying under water
swimming rate
as well as IQ and education
ethics and morals
for a huge gaps in his knowledge of some very basic
information
became a US Government project
Escaped
went back to Japanese Garden and dived into the koi pond
Met Japanese Garden’s gardener “Nag” again
and Ken the photographer
who thought me might find Taisho there again
Ken wanted his story
Taisho wanted to find out about Americans
and their culture
Ken took him to his apartment
Taisho was captivated by Ken’s apartment
Taisho was surprised to see the well appointed aquarium with gravel, live plants and several goldfish swimming lazilly
around, which became more excited and active, swimming to
the top when they saw Ken who fed and cooed and kissed at
them
Taisho then surprised Ken by looking intense at the fish and
nodding several times then looking at Ken with a smile and
saying the fish said he took good care of them,
Taisho was likewise very interested in the bathroom sink,
toilet and with the shower/tub which he wanted to lay in
but Ken told him they had other things for sleeping
Taisho looked like a child in a candy store at the waterbed
which he pounced upon
and soon he fell asleep on it.
Ken realizing he would have to sleep on the futon in the living room and he should have let Taisho sleep in the tub after all.
I have some ideas of further adventures tor Koi
his learning of America and it’s culture, and friendships he
makes as well as Japan’s culture
and rediscovering who he is and where he came from
as well as meeting those from his distant and recent past,
and the gifts and curse of his powers.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_Music_Koi_zps9tjrmdlk.jpg
This music is ONE of several that was inspiration for, during
and of Koi, since JR said “less than 10 minutes’ and some
were complete Japanese albums.
Sadly this music clip does end abruptly but I think it most
reflects Koi.
(I do have a great cover of Lady Gaga’s Telephone done on
koto and Sakuhachi Flute by Team Kozan I would like to do
Koi dancing at a Japanese/American club … hopefully before
the contest deadline, but today is dialysis, so maybe Friday.)
JAPANESE KOI POND FROM THE FISH DVD KOI POND
Shine Over the Light
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Shine-Over-the-Light.png
song: Valley of the Damned- by Dragonforce
Nice choice, Dragonforce. Wouldn’t be my personal choice, but still a good song.
my song (actually, my father’s song): https://soundcloud.com/simon-beck-3/indian-techno
my picture: http://i1383.photobucket.com/albums/ah307/Dreadyacht/Contest%20Characters/Indian_Techno_zps5ksojmoy.png
Kirin VS Seishin
http://img03.deviantart.net/f13b/i/2015/106/3/8/kirin_vs_seishin_by_vectorman316-d8pxfy4.png
Inspired by: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYAwOhDgCbY&w=560&h=315%5D
\M/ DIE BY THE BLADE!!! BY OMEN
http://pre00.deviantart.net/63ef/th/pre/f/2015/106/b/7/die_by_the_blade_by_heavynieto-d8py29w.jpg
https://youtu.be/KWNN0xi_ltI
The Transfiguration
Image: http://img00.deviantart.net/b0b2/i/2015/106/3/c/the_transfiguration_by_vadnik-d8pycph.jpg
Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JsaE2yZ1Rs
Decided to do another one.
Go to Him
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Go-to-Him.jpg
Song: Don’t Fear The Reaper- by Blue Oyster Cult
@Thundersong- I know I shouldn’t be saying this, being the judge and everything, but that is one of the most beautiful Heromachine creations I’ve ever seen.
Heyla!
Thank you for the compliments. I have always been a “fan” of the Asian artwork painted on huge fans. When I first saw the video, I was much inspired to create my own version of a “painted fan”. When I saw this weeks contest, I decided to put this one in along with the song. Music that touches people, does inspire creative visuals as I’ve seen in the entries this week. Very awesome job for all of us. Thanks again for the compliments!
3LF, Thundersong
The Lion From the North by Sabaton.
http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Melmo44-The-Lion-From-the-North.jpg
Ok guys, this weeks contest is closed. The poll will be up shortly.