Yearly Archives: 2019

CDC #406 – Post Apocalyptic Warriors – Female Edition

Your challenge this week is to create a totally bad@$$ female post apocalyptic warrior character.

You may enter up to three times

This week’s winner will receive a HM3 rendering of their winning character, designed by me.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges: 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. Please keep all submissions PG13: full or partial nudity is prohibited. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered inĀ 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.

All entries must be in JPG or PNG formĀ (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (likeĀ the HeroMachine :,ImageShack,Ā Deviant Art or whatever);Do not use Photobucket.

  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
  • Please name your filesas [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).

This contest will close at 9am Eastern on Sunday, March 24th.

CDC #405 – Two Great Tastes – Grim Reaper Edition – Results

Great showing this week folks.

Honourable mention this week goes to Sam Heness for his Mr. Revenant.

Runner up this week is Kellkin

Powerful stance and great composition.

And the win this week goes to...

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CDC #404 – Down The Rabbit Hole – Prize for Superfly30

Superfly30'sĀ  original ...

My beefcake take...

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Con Announcement and Cosplay Updates!

We've got so much to talk about today! And lots of exciting stuff, so let's get right to it!

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CDC #404 – Down The Rabbit Hole – Results

Really tough decision this week - so many great entries.

Honourable mentions go out to...

YamĆ” Oþûruz ƀtl, the Shadow-Behind-the-Lights,

Kellkin

and Ubiquitous Pixel

All very creative and worthy of the win.

Runners up this week go to CantDraw...

and Ubiquitous Pixel

Both are great takes on classic characters and beautifully rendered and realized. Both also worthy of the win.

And the win this week goes to...

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CDC #405 – Two Great Tastes – Grim Reaper Edition!

Ok guys, it’s time to resurrect the Two Great Tastes style contest this week. This week, your main theme is the Grim Reaper and your challenge is to mix that with any genre you like, whether it be Sci-fi, Fantasy, Superhero, Western, Martial Arts, Horror, Anime, whatever. Ā Just be creative and have fun!

Enter as often as you wish.

This week’s winner will receive a HM3 rendering of their winning character, designed by me.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges: 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. Please keep all submissions PG13: full or partial nudity is prohibited. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered inĀ 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.

All entries must be in JPG or PNG formĀ (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (likeĀ the HeroMachine :,ImageShack,Ā Deviant Art or whatever);Do not use Photobucket.

  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
  • Please name your filesas [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).

This contest will close at 9am Eastern on Sunday, March 17th.

CDC #403 – Aztec Gods – Prize for Christi S.

Christi S' version ofĀ  Coatlicue

My version inspired by Christi's design...

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CDC #404 – Down The Rabbit Hole!

A few years ago I did a series of HM3 characters based on Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland like the Mock Turtle (pictured above).

So your challenge this week is to re-imagine one of the characters from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in an unexpected and unique way.

This week’s winner will receive a HM3 rendering of their winning character, designed by me.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges: 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. Please keep all submissions PG13: full or partial nudity is prohibited. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered inĀ 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.

All entries must be in JPG or PNG formĀ (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (likeĀ the HeroMachine :,ImageShack,Ā Deviant Art or whatever);Do not use Photobucket.

  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
  • Please name your filesas [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).

This contest will close at 9am Eastern on Sunday, March 10h.

CDC #403 – Aztec Gods – Results

Great stuff again this week folks! Every single entry showed a lot of imagination and creativity. So here we go...

Honourable mention goes this week to Xinmodic.

Great colour work and awesome details. Good job

Runner up goes to Superfly30.

Love the way you handled the body paint and the headdress. Brilliant!

And the win goes to...

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CDC #402 – Triple Play – Prize for Augusto Darouiche

AD's original Red Rhino

My version...

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