Character Design Challenge #178- TGT: Pirates

Posted on July 11, 2016 by | 9 comments

Ok guys, another Two Great Tastes style contest for you this week. This week, your main them is Pirates and you can mix that with any genre you like, whether it be Sci-fi, Fantasy, Superhero, Western, Martial Arts, Horror, Anime, whatever. The only extra rule is that you must include a skull and crossbones in your entry in some aspect, for obvious reasons.

As per usual, no limits on entries this week and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). 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.

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Character Design Challenge #177 (Public Domain Amalgams) Winner

Posted on July 10, 2016 by | 2 comments

Winner: Brons- The Avenging Bat

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Pop Quiz – Savage Beauty

Posted on July 9, 2016 by | 7 comments

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Savage Beauty was an art exhibition held in 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring clothing created by British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, as well as accessories created for his runway shows. The exhibit was extremely popular in New York City and resulted in record attendance for the museum.

A master of the Avant Garde, McQueen played with extreme silhouettes and materials; the dress posted above was made of razor clam shells.

Your challenge this week is to design a character that personifies the idea of Savage Beauty.

This is a link to my McQueen Pinterest page to help inspire you.

https://www.pinterest.com/davidjuby7/mcqueen/

You only get one entry so be creative, and above all else, have fun!

All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack, PhotoBucket, or whatever);

  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • The image must be new and designed specifically for the Pop Quiz;
  • No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
  • Please name your filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. 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). See this post on how to get the direct link for most sites.

This contest will close at 6pm Eastern on Monday, July 11th.

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Yep another update!

Posted on July 5, 2016 by | 9 comments

Kaldath here again to keep you all updated.  i’m being released from the hospital again today which is good news the bad news I’ve been diagnosed with MRSA I have several small pockets of the infection in my chest.  I now have to have daily IV infusions of a very strong antibiotic for the next five weeks and then get retested. If the antibiotics don’t work I’m going to have to have surgery to have those pockets of infection drained.  i’ve already had one pocket it drain and  and dealing with a great feel pain right now and I’m afraid that I might be MIA for a few months and weeks at this point but I’ll try to keep you updated on my condition  if you’d like me to.  I’m not in the best of spirits but I’m not no in the worst if spirits either. I’m hoping the antibiotics work and that I’ll be back to my normal self in a month or so.  wish me luck everybody!

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The List: Things Marvel Got Wrong With The First 2 Stages Of The MCU

Posted on July 5, 2016 by | 5 comments

Ok, gonna try a different kind of list this week. Instead of doing a top 10, I’m going to go through each of Marvels Stage 1 and 2 films and find the problems. This is going to be interesting.

Continue reading →

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Pop Quiz Winner

Posted on July 4, 2016 by | 2 comments

Honorable Mentions: Cliff and HerrD.

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Winner: CalvaryRed. Made me giggle!

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Special shout out to AtomicPunk for the Looney Tunes reference!

Thanks to all who entered. See you Saturday!

 

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Character Design Challenge #177- Public Domain Amalgams

Posted on July 4, 2016 by | 6 comments

Here’s a contest theme we haven’t done in a long time. So, the idea here is that you go to this page and pick two similar characters from their list of Public Domain Comic Book Characters. Then you combine them to create one character, like DC and Marvel did with their most famous heroes to create Amalgam Comics back in the 90’s. The characters must have a name that is a combination of both of the characters that they are made of and you must leave links to the pages for both characters that are combined. Other than that, you have free reign, so go nuts.

As per usual, no limits on entries this week and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). 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.

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Character Design Challenge #176 (National Heroes) Result

Posted on July 3, 2016 by | 2 comments

Honourable Mentions: Blunt Object- Masada (Israel) & Urban Poet- La Catrina (Mexico)

Winner: MacAdson- Le Sans Culotte (France)

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Pop Quiz – Roswell

Posted on July 2, 2016 by | 10 comments

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Sixty-nine years ago today, on July 2nd, 1947, an object crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. The United States Army Air Force insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts led to speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft. 

Your Pop Quiz challenge is to create your version of the object that crashed AND who…or what…was on board at the time.

You only get one entry so be creative, and above all else, have fun!

All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack, PhotoBucket, or whatever);

  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • The image must be new and designed specifically for the Pop Quiz;
  • No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
  • Please name your filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. 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). See this post on how to get the direct link for most sites.

Due to the scope of this challenge, the contest will close at 6pm Eastern on Monday, July 4th.

 

 

 

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Happy Canada Day to all the Canadian Machiners!

Posted on July 1, 2016 by | 1 comment

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