Honourable Mentions
Cliff- Get In Shape & Brons- Xoyotec
Winner: Vampyrist- Shapes Shonen
Posted in Challenge Favorites
I apologize that I haven’t been posting anything lately and the way things are going may not be posting for a while to come. The fluctuating weather patterns in my area, wild temperature changes, rain etc has had me in a serious amount of pain. As I type right now I am laying in bed feeling as if someone has kicked me in my back! So while I will be posting the winners of the Hall Of Fame poll on monday I am not going to be doing any kind of schedule posting for a while. I may throw up a random Kaldath’s Corner, or Anime Talk or what have you if I am having a good day but there may be some long stretches with nothing from me. Once again I am sorry to have to do this and I hope the weather decides to settle on what season it wants to be soon so I can return to normal !
Posted in Uncategorized
So, to kick off a new year of COTW’s we’re going to have this very interesting piece by Hawk. Now I’m sure everyone can tell why I’ve picked this. It’s is very difficult to do a back facing pose on Heromachine and make it look good, we don’t have items that facilitate such a pose, so you have to work around it and usually it looks slightly off, no matter how good you are. Hawk has managed to get round this problem with what can only be described as “a lot of shading”. If I had to nit-pick I’d say he could have used different gauntlets or paid a bit more attention to their placement, and trying to do something for the feet, rather than basically blacking it out, but those bits don’t detract from the picture in too severe of a fashion, as I said, nit-picks. Overall, the item usage to make the pose work is excellent and the atmosphere is brilliantly done.
Gallery- Hawk’s Nest
Posted in Character of the Week
So, new year, new CDC’s. For this years contests I’m going to be focusing more on the Challenge aspect rather than the Contest aspect. I’m also only planning to take the CDC’s up to the 300th contest, which is going to be CDC197 under the current numbering, and then see what happens afterwards. As with the end of last year, I will be judging the contests and picking a winner at the end of each week, so polls will not be making a return.
Anyway, in line with the new CDC ideology, this weeks Challenge is for you to only use shapes in creating your character. And when I say character, I mean character, no random combinations of shapes into some form of abstract or minimalist art. You are only allowed to use items in the Insignia’s or Backgrounds- Shapes/ Backgrounds- WordBalloons categories and nothing else.
As per usual, no limits on the number of entries 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.
If you don’t know how to enter, there’s a handy little diagram below the jump.
Posted in Challenges, Character Design Challenges
Well Folk, the polls closed on the previous 5 hall of fame polls and I have collected the 3 entries from each poll with the most votes and have added them to the poll below. Before you , you have 15 heromachine creations to choose from. The 4 that get the most votes will be entered into the HeroMachine Hall Of Fame. You can vote only once in this poll but you can vote for as many or as few of the entries as you like. Poll Closes at Midnight on January 10th. Good luck to all the entrants!
[polldaddy poll=”9256007″]Posted in Uncategorized
Back in September of 2012 when Jeff was still running the blog I made my first attempt at writing for HeroMachine when I learned that the Elf Stones of Shannara was being made into a TV Series. You can Read that Here .
Well now all these years later that series is coming to fruition and will be premiering Tuesday January 5th 2016 ( this Tuesday ) on MTV as The Shannara Chronicles
Posted in Things I Like
Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
Nerdmudgeon.com