Character Design Contest ♯55 (Speedsters) Poll

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Character Design Contest ♯54 (Flying) Winner

The winner of this weeks CDC poll was none other than RobM for his Jet Dynamo Go. Congratulations Rob, if you wish to claim a prize I believe dblade is offering custom items to CDC winners.

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Announcement – FNF : Monsters

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This is to let people know that I will be attempting to run Friday Night Fights again next month, with the them of Monsters. I will have more details next month, but wanted to judge interest levels .

Whiz Bang Poll #4 Delayed Because of Kimono

Instead of posting a poll I decided to create a Kimono as my item of the week. I will miss the excitement of the voting but I hope you won’t mind so much. I’ll get back to the polls the following week.

Ah, what the heck. Here is a little poll to help me focus on the next couple of polls. I chose a couple of sets that I personally wanted to focus on but I left it open for people to add to the voting.

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HM3: Stompin Time!

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The Ent foot and reptilian abomination foot from the week 3 poll have kicked their way into the Machine! You can find these items in the FootRight/Monster set. Did I mention that we put together a new set for monstrous/creature feet? Mostly old items at the moment but hopefully more will follow.

The Big Question ♯24

Last week we covered why Wolverine is so popular, now it’s Spidey’s turn. And that puts me in a bit of a corner, because I can’t actually write a counter argument against him. I’ve been trying all week to come up with good arguments as to why Pete shouldn’t be as popular as he is. The only decent one I could think of was the rubbish things Marvel have done with him on occasion (The Clone Saga, Civil War & Superior Spider-Man for example), but these are occasional lapses. Ok, they’ve all been terrible, but that’s because Marvel have been heavily misguided in their approach during these periods. So what I’m going to do instead is say why I think Spiderman is one of the best superheroes. If you intend to comment on why you think Spiderman is so popular, can you skip the next bit, write your comment and then read, I want to hear peoples honest opinions without them being influenced by what I say.

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Thrusting Swords

That title sounds like a romance novel, doesn’t it? Oh my.

Regardless, what it actually means is that I have published the following items to ItemRight-Blades. The intent is that you can combine the angled hilts with the angled blades to create the effect of a sword coming more towards the viewer rather than being held parallel to the plane of the canvas.

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Open Critique Day

Back by popular demand. You know the drill, you post a piece of heromachine work (either finished or W.I.P) that you want an opinion on and myself and others will give our opinions and advice.

So, show us what you’ve got.

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.

Robot Hand

Per request from AMS, a new relaxed robot hand is now live in HandRight-Standard:

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It’s basically one of the items from Gloves with the glove part removed. Thanks to dblade for the original hand pose.

Whiz Bang Item Creation Week 3 Poll Results!

And the winner is…

Ent Foot

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Rhino Foot and Abomination Foot just couldn’t keep pace with the Ent Foot.

I’ve already got the Ent Foot going…

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and I’ve started working on the Abomination (Special Five-Toed Edition) Foot…

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Now let’s see if I can pull off a hat trick and finish the Rhino Foot.