Author Archives: AFDStudios

Stonebourne

As AMS' prize for winning Character Contest 77, he requested a Sketch of the Day of his character Stonebourne. And here it is:

And here's the awesome HeroMachine version he sent me as reference:

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Caption Contest 120: Bat Gat

Your challenge this week is to come up with the best replacement dialog for this comics panel:

The best entry (as judged by yours truly) wins the author's choice of either any item they like or any portrait to be included in HeroMachine 3′s final release, or a custom black and white “Sketch of the Day” style illustration (you pick the subject, I draw it however I like).

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!

(Original panel © DC Comics, Inc.)

Character Contest 87 Winners

We had a ton of great entries for Character Contest 87. Without further ado, here are the ones I thought had something extra special about them. Ladies and gentlemen, your Finalists!

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It's the Perv-O-Matic 2000!

(From "Target Comics" number 1, 1940.)

Prize updates

As you can tell, I've been focused over the last week trying to complete the outstanding prizes for the various contests. According to my list I owe specific prizes to:

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Gunner

I've just finished Rick's prize for winning Caption Contest 108, his original character Gunner:

I hope it came out like you wanted, Rick.

Happy Easter

Today Christians around the world celebrate their holiest day, Easter. Americans celebrate the holiday by decorating eggs, so in that tradition our Pop Quiz for the weekend was to create an Easter egg in HeroMachine. Some folks went for the historic look while others took an approach more out of left field. Where presumably they're finding hidden eggs. Without further ado, here are all of our entrants!

While I love all the creativity, I am in a traditional mood today and so am going with an entry that took the approach of an actual dyed Easter egg. And that winner is ... FRM!

It made me feel happy and peaceful while looking at it. So congratulations to him, a sincere thanks to all of our entrants, and a Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it!

Pop Quiz: Easter egg

Get ready for your pop quiz, kids! In honor of the big Christian holiday tomorrow, your one-day quick-fire challenge is:

Make an awesome Easter egg in HM3!

To make this easier, I've just added two new items to Background-Shapes, one a big egg-shaped hole and one an actual egg shape. So you can put together whatever image you like, load the egg-hole on top of it, and Bob's your uncle!

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 contest, but instead of a whole week I'll announce the winner either tonight or first thing in the morning.

  • All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like ImageShack, PhotoBucket, the UGO 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). If you see "preview" or "rotate" somewhere in the link you're probably doing it wrong.

Good luck!

Racially offensive AND completely nonsensical all in one!

(From "Target Comics" number 1, 1940.)

HM3: Lighthouse

I've just uploaded Frankie's prize for Caption Contest 118 to Background-Standard, a lighthouse and a cliff on which to perch it:

Originally I had them combined, but it was too limiting to try and get good color on both the buildings and in the landscape. But they're positioned by default to work together, so if you just turn on Multiples you can place the cliffs, then the lighthouse and they ought to fit together.