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Character Design Contest ♯47 (Giving Up For Ghosts) Winner

The winner of this weeks CDC poll was none other than Atomic Punk for his Necromancer. Well done AP and good work by everyone who entered.

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Power User Profiles: Linea24

This week's Power User hasn't been a part of the forums for a hugely long time, but she's definitely made an impact whilst she's been there (considering that when I ask who should get profiled I can always count on someone suggesting her). Also it's nice to have another Digimon fan around, but I digress. Creator of many colourful cats and a stunning spaceship that came 2nd in last weeks CDC poll, please give a big hand for Linea24.

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Character Design Contest ♯48- Be Inspired

This week I'm going to try something a bit different. Instead of giving you a set topic which you have to stick to, I'm going to give you free reign to create what ever you want. However, I have one proviso, this week I've been looking at a lot of art inspired by music and visa versa, so I want you to create something inspired by a piece of music. It doesn't have to be connected to the content of the song, but I want you to try to capture the feeling of that song in your work. Hopefully this will lead to some very good art work from you all. You can do characters, abstracts, landscapes, anything. The one rule I have this week is I want you to put the song title and artist name in the comment when you post your work, because I can't judge how well your art captures the music if I don't know what song you've done. And don't worry about me not liking the song. I'm pretty open in my music tastes, as long as it isn't Justin Bieber or Music Concrete (don't ask).

Hopefully this isn't too complicated. I am going to put a limit on entries this week, 3 per person. The contest will close at 12am Sunday (blog time). Please read the 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.

No “WWTT” Today/ Open Critique Day

Sorry about this, I know I did the same thing on last week's Sci-fi Corner and Big Question. Uni has just started to get really hectic and I haven't been able to find much time to come up with stuff to write about. Hopefully I won't be getting rid of either, I'll try to get them in when I have time or if there's something come up that I feel merits special inclusion, but this week it doesn't look like that's going to happen.

On a slightly more positive note, I have found another person to do a Power User Profile and I've contacted another two (at time of writing), so thankfully the PUP's won't be going anywhere for at least another week.

Anyway, we haven't had an Open Critique Day in a while, so feel free to use the comments below as such or to make suggestions for subjects for any of the above mentioned topics that you'd like to see covered (What Were They Thinking, Sci-Fi Corner, Screen Spotlight, Big Question or Power User Profiles) and if I like 'em I'll try to cover them.

To quote AMS; 'Cheers'

Character Design Contest ♯47 (Ghosts) Poll

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Character Design Contest ♯46 (Cosmic) Winner

So, we had some excellent entries for last weeks CDC and, accordingly, the poll was close. However, this didn't stop it from being another win for prswirve for his Hawk Interceptor. I do believe that's now your fifth win, sir.

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Power User Profiles: Vengeance

I'll be honest, I didn't originally consider this week's nominee when I first brought back the PUP's on the basis that I thought he'd already done one. He's got to have gone the longest between being nominated and actually getting to do a profile, having been nominated way back on the first ever PUP. Like all the best 'machiners, he has an easily identifiable style that means you can tell whose work it is just by looking and his costume designs are always very well thought out and visually interesting. So, here you go Vengeance, this one is long over-due.

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Character Design Contest ♯47- Giving Up For Ghost(s)

This week, as it's halloween, I would like you to break out the bedsheets and show me your best ghoul, ghast or ghost. You are free to do any kind of non-corperal entity, from a pernicious poltergeist to a frightening phantom. You can do this any way you want, horror-centric, fantasy, historical, real-life or you could do a Boston Brand (not literally, 'cause that would beak the rules, but you get the idea). No zombies are allowed (on account of them being corperal entities), but possessed objects/ people do count, as long as there is some evidence of said possessing spirit.

As per usual, there are no entry limits, the contest will close at 12am Sunday (blog time). Please read the 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 ♯46 (Cosmic) Poll

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Character Design Contest ♯45 Winner

This weeks poll had the highest number of votes we've ever had. And whilst it wasn't as much of a walk over as some previous polls, there was a very clear winner. And that winner was OnionBeam for Witch Of The Forest.

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