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RP: Why James T. Kirk's "Deanna Troi" didn't work out
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HM3: New backgrounds
I’ve just added the “Background-Standard” set of items, consisting of 8 of the “Floor” items and about the same number of walls. I needed to do a brick wall background for Gargoyle323’s Character Contest 41 win anyway, and realized I didn’t have a “Standard” set there yet. I needed a logical place to put the brick wall, and figured this would be a good time to set up the set. Then when I started looking at walls, I got motivated to do some extras, too.
So this one is just a placeholder for now until I can flesh it out a bit more.
The idea of those first two is that color1 fills the center of the hole, and that’s what is masked to. So you could put whatever item you want on stage, mask it to this hole, and it would look like the item was peeking through. Color2 is the brick pattern, so if you didn’t want bricks you could set that to the same color as color1, or remove it entirely, and be left with just the hole fill.
If you don’t see the choice come up, clear your browser cache and try again.
Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, HeroMachine 3, News & Updates
Open Critique Friday #1
While it was a lot of fun (thanks for the idea, Hammerknight!), I think “RPG Friday” has about run its course. Going forward, we’re going to try “Open Critique Friday” instead, since there seems to be some demand for it. I used to do these on Help Thursdays, but it kind of runs over the recipes that often go in that day, which I hate to do.
So here’s how it works.
If you have a HeroMachine illustration or another piece of artwork you’ve done that you’d like some help with, post a link to it in comments along with your thoughts on it — what you think is working, what you’re struggling with, etc. I will post my critique of the piece, hopefully giving some tips on how to improve it.
Of course everyone is welcome to post their critiques as well, keeping in mind the following rules:
- Make sure your criticism is constructive. Just saying “This sucks” is both rude and unhelpful without giving specific reasons why you think it sucks and, ideally, some advice on how to make it better.
- Each person should only post one illustration for critique to make sure everyone who wants feedback has a chance.
- I will not critique characters entered in the currently running contest, as that doesn’t seem fair to the other entrants. You can still post it if you like for the other visitors to critique, but I will not do so.
That’s it! Hopefully we can get some good interaction going here and help everyone (me included!) learn a little bit today.
Posted in Open Critique Day
RP: The hell of junior high school
(From “Captain Victory and the Galaxy Rangers” number 7, ©1982 Jack Kirby.)
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Female flying pose
A hearty thank-you goes to Hammerknight for putting together the female version of his head-on flying pose in HeroMachine 3. Thanks big guy!
Posted in HeroMachine 3, Recipes, Tips & Tricks
How to make your own volcano in HM3
Everyone was impressed with Me, Myself, and I’s fantastic volcano in the last character contest, and you can see why:
Now for the first time anywhere, he reveals just how he did it! I like these “how to” kinds of guides because even if you don’t want to make your own volcano without the prospect of baking soda blowing up in a high school science fair, the techniques used are applicable to all kinds of things you might want to try.
Many thanks to MMI for putting this together.
Posted in HeroMachine 3, Recipes, Tips & Tricks
HM3: Six new bustiers
Thanks to your feedback, I’ve added six items from the HM2.5 Expansion set to the HM3 Tops-Female-Bustiers set:
These are available now; if you don’t see them, clear your browser’s cache.
Posted in HeroMachine 3, News & Updates, Previews
Everyday items as costumes
This appears to be King Kirby week here at the HeroMachine Comics Blog, and once again I’m going to be picking on a guy I regard as a genius. But hey, if you can’t destroy the ones you love, who can you destroy, right?
The contest this week is oriented towards Kirby’s unique costuming, so I wanted to highlight one tendency of his in particular — incorporating everyday items into his super-hero outfits, particularly in his later Fourth World style designs. My main target today is “Ajak” from Marvel Comics’ “The Eternals” (issue number 7 in this case). Ajak is sort of a herald, as far as I can tell, who comes ahead of the Eternals to basically assemble them from a kit on their new planet. Which doesn’t explain why he is wearing a giant video camera as a helmet:
Actually it’s sort of a combination giant fish with a big lens instead of a head, I suppose. Maybe they heard “Fish Eye Lens” and got carried away? Whatever, look at how far out the nose of that thing sticks from the head! “I’d love to kiss you, darling, but I can’t get closer than two feet!”
Another example of this is “General Ordiz” and his chest-mounted old-fashioned reel-fed tape recorder:
Keep this in mind as you design your Kirby-inspired contest entries, hopefully it will … inspire? … you to new heights of awesomeness.
Posted in Bad Super Costumes
RP: Bad super-hero pickup lines
(From “Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers” number 7, ©1982 Jack Kirby.)
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