Runner up this week goes to Mark Williams
And the win goes to…
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Your challenge this week is to reimagine Golden Age hero Major Victory (pictured above) for the modern day.
The winning entrant will receive a HM3 version of their characters rendered by yours truly.
The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way.
Rules for posts, contests, and challenges:
Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters.No characters based on Official RPG NPC’s ( Non-Player Characters ). Please keep all submissions PG13. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered in 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.
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);
Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).
This contest will close on Monday, August 17th at 6:00pm Eastern
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We’ve got two – count ’em, TWO! – episodes of the podcast releasing today. First up is the Phase 2 closer, Ant-Man followed by our recap of the entirety of Phase 2. Please give us a listen if you have a chance!
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Your challenge this week is to reimagine Golden Age hero Strongman (pictured above) for the modern day.
The winning entrant will receive a HM3 version of their characters rendered by yours truly.
The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way.
Rules for posts, contests, and challenges:
Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters.No characters based on Official RPG NPC’s ( Non-Player Characters ). Please keep all submissions PG13. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered in 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.
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);
Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).
This contest will close on Monday, August 10th at 6:00pm Eastern
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Really outstanding entries this week
Honourable mentions go out to …
This week’s runner up is…
…Mauricio Brito.
The win this week goes out to…
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Robots! Punching! More robots! *More* punching! Also, deep philosophical and metaphysical contextualization of the #MCU heroes as a new pantheon of modern mythology. (Say what?) Tune in as my two best friends and I discuss “Avengers: Age of Ultron”!
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