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Character Contest 5 Winners

Posted on June 2, 2009 | 39 comments

After the jump I have the winners of Character Design Contest 5: Fantasy Edition. That’s right, I said winnerS, plural; there were so many great entries (42 different individuals contributed 186 separate illustrations, which is mind-blowing) that I couldn’t decide on just one. So I’ll be showing you what I consider to be the best examples from five different categories, each of which will win either one item of their choice or a caricature of their head to be included in the HeroMachine 3 program!

Many thanks to everyone who entered; as always, if you don’t see one of yours called out here, it’s due to lack of space and not a lack of ability or creativity on your part. There’s only so much room, after all!

And now, your winners (WARNING: Lots of very large images to follow, users with slow connections beware!).

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Posted in Challenge Favorites, Challenges, Cool Characters

HM3: Ranged update

Posted on June 2, 2009 | 15 comments

With thanks to Violodion for pointing out the problem, I have updated the ItemRightRanged set by making the patterns and masks align properly in the HeroMachine 3 Alpha. As always, holler if the fix broke something else.

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Posted in Bug Reports & Fixes, HeroMachine 3

Random Panel: Low moments in side-kickery

Posted on June 2, 2009 | 6 comments
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(From “Exciting Comics” number 20, 1942.)

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Posted in Daily Random Panel

Poll Position: Resistance is to be hoped for

Posted on June 1, 2009 | 18 comments

Much like the Los Angeles Lakers, the Borg in Star Trek come in two varieties: Pure, unadulterated, horrifying, assimilating, nasty, relentless evil and complete wusses who you still hate just on principle. To be clear, this week’s Poll Position is dealing with the former:

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Because when you’ve got a creation as creepy and awesome as The Borg, you owe it to yourself to not let them become completely emasculated, impotent weenies, and if you have to invade some other person’s much healthier (read: violent) creation to make that happen, then so be it. Discussion after the jump.

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Random Panel: It's my birthday!

Posted on June 1, 2009 | 37 comments
gay-birthday

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HM3: More ranged items

Posted on May 30, 2009 | 39 comments

I’ve just made the updated “ItemRightRanged” set for the HM3 Alpha available, which includes a lot of the suggestions from Solander and others, primarily in the “Thrown Items” sort of category. It also includes the prize for our first Character Contest winner, Imp, who requested:

Okay, how about this: a bow that looks like a bat – the arms would be the ‘wings’, with a kind of webbed look – sort of like a more intricate, stylized Batman symbol.

It’s the last item in the set, and here’s what the lineart looks like:

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Congratulations to Imp, and I should get to those other prizes … soon. Yeah.

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Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, HeroMachine 3

Random Panel: That's the X-Ray Tech, sir …

Posted on May 30, 2009 | 3 comments
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Random Panel: Too … many … JOKES …

Posted on May 29, 2009 | 7 comments
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(From “Exciting Comics” number 18, 1942.)

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Posted in Daily Random Panel

HM3: Take a bow

Posted on May 28, 2009 | 64 comments

I’ve just update the HeroMachine 3 Alpha with the “ItemRightRanged” set, featuring all manner of bows with a couple of arrows, a boomerang, a sling, and a javelin “thrown” in for good measure.

If you have specific bows you want included that you don’t see, let me know. Your best shot at getting an item included (besides winning one of the character contests!) is to put a link to an image of what you want in your request, like Solander did. That’s no guarantee, but it’s a lot easier on me if I have an actual reference to look at.

Hope you like the new set of items! Next up is probably Shields, as it ought to be easy to knock those out.

Note that I won’t be converting these all over to “ItemLeft” til I get all the sets done. In the meantime, “flip” is your friend.

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Posted in HeroMachine 3

HM3: More glasses

Posted on May 28, 2009 | 13 comments

With many thanks to Solander for an awesome set of links in the comments to the last “glasses” post, I have updated HeadgearGlasses with seven new items, including a monocle, a really nifty “x” set of sunglasses, a steampunk mask thingie, and several more. Hope you like ’em!

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Posted in HeroMachine 3