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Caption Challenge 126

Posted on July 30, 2012 | 99 comments

It’s time for another new Caption Contest! Your challenge this week is to come up with the best replacement dialog for this comics panel:

I’ll pick out some as my personal favorites to highlight in a post next Monday, and then I’ll choose one of those to bear the standard as the “Featured Creator of the Week” atop the right tool bar.

All entries must be left as a comment (or comments) to this post. Keep ‘em clean (appropriate for a late-night broadcast TV show), but most importantly, keep ‘em funny!

No limit to entries, but please, self-edit and only put up ones you genuinely think are good!

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Posted in Caption Challenges, Challenges

Character Design Challenge 96 Results

Posted on July 30, 2012 | 26 comments

We had some great entries for Character Design Challenge 96, which tasked you with designing a “big bad” type of villain, something that could take on an entire team of super heroes. I want to take a moment right at the top to welcome the many new folks who chimed in for the first time this week, it’s great to have you sharing your creativity with us!

And on a more unpleasant bookkeeping note, among others who submitted entries that were invalid for not being named properly were excellent ones by Alphaalpharomeo, Joel, Blaq Aries, the creator, and DC Lover. Please name your files properly next time so your great work has a chance to be considered.

I encourage you to go check out the entire submissions thread because while I’ll choose my personal favorites in a moment, there are many more that are stellar that you might like better.

However, since all I have is my opinion, here are the ones that I personally enjoyed the most.

Continue reading →

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Posted in Challenge Favorites

Pop Quiz 20 Results

Posted on July 30, 2012 | 16 comments

Many thanks to everyone who entered Saturday’s Pop Quiz, and my apologies for the extra day taken to go through them. Without yet more delay, therefore, I am happy to present everyone who tackled the challenge of putting together an image using one hand item and no other body parts!

Although I’d love to hear which ones you liked the most, my personal favorites were by Atomic Punk, djuby, Prowler Knight, Jack, NHA247, Skybandit, and Thundersong. Out of those, I’m going with the entry by djuby as my top choice to be our Featured Creator:

The colors, the figure design the font choice, and the clever use of the hand all contribute to an effective and cool image.

Congratulations to djuby and to everyone who entered!

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Posted in Challenge Favorites

Lateness

Posted on July 29, 2012 | 1 comment

I’m having a harder time than usual recovering from the trip yesterday, so results for the Pop Quiz might be delayed till tonight or tomorrow. My apologies.

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Posted in Meta

META: Guest posts

Posted on July 28, 2012 | 9 comments

I just wanted to note that Andrew Hines, aka McKnight57, has graciously consented to do the occasional (or even, regular!) guest post ’round these parts about current comics. Be sure to give him a warm HeroMachine community welcome!

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Posted in Meta

Pop Quiz: Handy!

Posted on July 28, 2012 | 27 comments

Happy Saturday, folks! Your one-day quick-fire challenge today is to make an illustration with any of the dozens of items in the “Hand” sets, but that has no other items in it from any of the “body part” sets. So no heads, no other hands, no feet, no arms, no eyes, no ears, no nothing that would normally come with your standard Human 101.

On the plus side, you get to decide which hand to use! So to speak. Ahem.

You only get one entry — that’s right, just one! So make it your best. Most of the other rules are the same as for a regular challenge, but instead of a whole week I’ll announce my favorites either tonight or tomorrow morning. Elaborate backgrounds aren’t necessary, though if you’ve got one it’s fine.

  • All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like ImageShack, PhotoBucket, the HeroMachine Forums, whatever);
  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • Please name your files as [your name]-[character name].[file extension]. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his “Bayou Belle” character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.
  • Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this). Here’s a quick-start guide on how to do that for various image hosting services.

I’ll pick one entry as my personal favorite, which will get to be featured in the side bar to the right for ultimate glory! As a bonus you’re allowed to say you won the Internet for a few days.

Good luck!

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Posted in Challenges, Pop Quiz

I think he just did …

Posted on July 28, 2012 | 5 comments

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Posted in Daily Random Panel

New dblade items

Posted on July 27, 2012 | 24 comments

I’ve just uploaded the following Noses, Mouths, Hair, and Ears to HM3 thanks to the artistic stylings of one Mr. dblade. Be sure and thank him in the comments for his hard work!

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Posted in HeroMachine 3

Nominations, please!

Posted on July 27, 2012 | 66 comments

Instead of the usual Open Critique Day, I wanted to make a thread where each of you can nominate one however many HeroMachine illustrations you want (either of yours or someone else’s) that you think ought to be in the Hall of Fame gallery here on the site. Just post a link to them in the comments along with a few words about why you think they should be enshrined for all posterity.

Have at it! Tomorrow I’ll add at least one to the gallery from the received nominations.

ETA: I changed it so you can only nominate a piece by someone other than yourself and as many as you want. I think that gets more to the spirit of the thing, which is that I want to see what you think is a “great” piece of HM art. Not just good, but great, something that ought to make people sit back in their chairs on viewing and go “Wow”.

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Posted in Sharing Day

I dunno, it looks hot to me

Posted on July 27, 2012 | 1 comment

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Posted in Daily Random Panel