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Character Design Contest ♯79- Inspired By Music 2

Last year we did a challenge where I asked you to do a piece of art on Heromachine that was inspired by a piece of music of your choice. Now I enjoyed that contest so much, I've decided to do it again.

As with last time we did this contest, you can do any kind of art, character, background, abstract etc. for this contest. I will be judging on how well I feel the piece illustrates the music, not just by lyrical content (so you can do art for an instrumental) but also the feeling of the music. As such for you work to be eligible you must include a link to a youtube video or sound cloud page of the song your art is portraying (don't send download links). Don't worry about me not liking the song and judging your work down because of that, I'll be objective, and anyway, I'm pretty open in my music tastes.

As per usual, no limits on entries this week and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). The winner gets to claim a custom made item from dblade to be put into heromachine, so long as the item conforms to his prize rules, which you can find here: http://www.heromachine.com/forum/the-heromachine-art-gallery/dblades-whiz-bang-item-dispenser/. Please read the contest rules before entering, have fun and good luck.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges that I am hosting: 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. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warnings. Only post characters that you have either created for this contest specifically or you know for certain have never been entered to 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.

 

Character Design Contest ♯78 (Strike A Pose) Poll

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Ok guys, so those are your winners, but there were too many awesome entries this week for me not to do an honourable mentions, so you can find them after the jump.

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Character Design Contest ♯77 (Villains) Winner

You know how last weeks poll was really close? Well this one wasn't. The winner won by a clear 20 votes. And you know the best thing, he actually said that he was sure AMS was going to win. Dude, have some confidence ;). Anyway, this weeks winner was Anarchangel for Nightstalker & Entropy. Congrats dude, you probably know the drill by now, go talk to dblade etc. and well done to everyone who entered.

77 Anarchangel-Nightstalker & Entropy

Character Design Contest ♯78- Strike A Pose

Ok guys, this week I'm going to do something a little bit different. Instead of giving you a specific genre or whatever and you going and creating a character from it, I instead want you to create whatever type of character you please, but the hitch is YOU CANNOT USE THE STANDARD FORWARD FACING POSE. That is right, I want you to create a different pose to use. I know a lot of people already do and those of you that don't I want you to try it because it isn't all that bad to do honestly. If you're stuck for ideas of inspiration or just aren't sure how to do alternate poses, there is a section on the forum full of custom poses which you can find here- http://www.heromachine.com/forum/poses/ however, unless you were the original creator of any of these poses (i.e. AMS, keric, livewyre etc.) you aren't allowed to use them as they are, because it isn't you creating the pose. You can also use Companions as the bases for poses but you must at least make the character different from the base companion, different heads/ faces, hands all that sort of stuff.

Hopefully this isn't too complicated and explanation and people get what I'm asking for you to do. If you aren't a great poser don't worry, I'm not just looking at the pose, I'm looking at how well you dress the pose as well as the usual character design/ costume design and all that stuff. So have fun and good luck.

As per usual, no limits on entries this week and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). The winner gets to claim a custom made item from dblade to be put into heromachine, so long as the item conforms to his prize rules, which you can find here: http://www.heromachine.com/forum/the-heromachine-art-gallery/dblades-whiz-bang-item-dispenser/. Please read the contest rules before entering, have fun and good luck.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges that I am hosting: 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. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warnings. Only post characters that you have either created for this contest specifically or you know for certain have never been entered to 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.

 

Character Design Contest ♯77 (Villains) Poll

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Character Design Contest ♯76 (TGT- Sci-fi) Winner

Now, when entries first started coming in for this CDC, I thought it would be the normal fare for the poll, one person runs away with the prize. However, as more and more entries started to come in, I began to think "ok, this one is going to be close". And so it turned out to be. The five finalists where separated by 12 votes, that's 12 votes between places 1 and 5 (to put that in perspective, the previous weeks poll had 12 votes between positions 1 and 2). And if that wasn't enough positions 1 and 2 were separated by 1 vote. Yes, 1 vote. I sorta half wanted to give a vote to second place so we could have a tie, but the poll had closed by the time I got round to writing this and, anyway, that woulda been unfair on the winner, because he thoroughly deserved this win.  And that winner would be CantDraw for his Sci-Fi Angel. Congrats CD, that'd be your 3rd win I believe, please make sure you speak to dblade about your prize. And a hearty congratulations to everyone who entered, especially our finalists, the fact the poll was so close is testament to your creativity and talent.

76 CantDraw-SciFiAngel

Character Design Contest ♯77- Villains

The title says it all here, I'm sure you don't need me to tell you what to do. Oh you do? Ok. This weeks challenge is to create an awesome bad guy. Simple as that. Do you need me to explain any further?

As per usual, no limits on entries this week and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). The winner gets to claim a custom made item from dblade to be put into heromachine, so long as the item conforms to his prize rules, which you can find here: http://www.heromachine.com/forum/the-heromachine-art-gallery/dblades-whiz-bang-item-dispenser/. Please read the contest rules before entering, have fun and good luck.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges that I am hosting: 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. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warnings. Only post characters that you have either created for this contest specifically or you know for certain have never been entered to 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.

Character Design Contest ♯76 (TGT- Sci-Fi) Poll

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Note: I don't know if people know this, but if you right click on the pictures in the poll you can open them in full in a new tab. I'd especially advise doing that this week, as the thumbnails don't really do some of these pictures justice.

Character Design Contest ♯75 (Indelible)- Winner

The winner of this weeks contest also won the contest two weeks ago, although hopefully this time there will be less complaining about her win. So congratulations to Valyndril and her winning piece, Indelible Taint. Please make sure you speak to dblade about your prize Val, and well done to everyone else who entered.

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