Good turn out this week.
Honourable mentions go out to…Henry George and Scott Weyers
Runner up this week is Palazzo. Interesting colours, nice layout.
And the win this week goes out to…
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Hey everyone, I know I’ve been MIA lately. Things have been nuts lately, especially with school wrapping up. But, time waits for no one and those costumes aren’t gonna make themselves, so let’s look at what (little, unfortunately) progress we’ve made! And as a bonus, a cake!
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Tagged 2019, cosplay, costume, geek culture, nerd, news, road to comic-con
The premise of this contest is that over the next number of weeks we will build a team of superheroes and a team of villains. Each week I will supply you with a role, name, or list of powers of one of the team members and you will use HM3 to create the character. The winner each week will win a version of their character created on HM by yours truly.
Your challenge this week is to design the hero team’s warrior Achillia.
Real Name: Nancy George
Age: 35
Hometown: Utica, New York
Profession: Bladesmith / Ancient Historian
Achillia is the reincarnation of one of Ancient Rome’s famed Gladiatrix (female gladiators) She relies on intense physical training and her arsenal of homemade weapons as she has no actual superpowers.
Please follow the instructions below regarding the naming of entries.
Enter a often as you like!
Rules for posts, contests, and challenges: 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. Please keep all submissions PG13: full or partial nudity is prohibited. 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, Deviant Art or whatever);Do not use Photobucket.
Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).
This contest will close at 9am Eastern on Sunday, July 7th.
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Fantastic entries by everyone this week! The win this week goes out to Kellkin.
The costume design is brilliant, and the mechanical spider “minions” are just great. Well done you!
Your prize will be posted to the blog later this week.
Thanks to all who entered
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So, as we’ve just found out what the community believes are the top 10 best superhero movies of all time, why not do the opposite. As with the poll for the best movies, I’ve started us out with 10 movies that most people will agree are to some extent pretty terrible, but you can add your own choices to the list (preferably with the year they came out, so we don’t have any confusion between movies with the same or simular names, i.e. Fantastic Four) one per day. We are including any film that has superheros as a main theme and had a theatrical release, both live-action and animated. So we wouldn’t accept the 1992 Fantastic Four film because that went unreleased and can only be viewed on VHS bootlegs or on the internet, but we would accept Hancock, because it was about superheroes and wasn’t great. You can vote for as many choices as you want once per day and the poll is open until the 6th of July (so a week on Friday).
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The premise of this contest is that over the next number of weeks we will build a team of superheroes and a team of villains. Each week I will supply you with a role, name, or list of powers of one of the team members and you will use HM3 to create the character. The winner each week will win a version of their character created on HM by yours truly.
Your challenge this week is to design the villain team’s computer genius Dark Web.
Celine Eastlake was recruited by the FBI at age 19 as a hacker in their cyber crimes division. This job took her to parts of the internet that she had only heard about. Dangerous people resided there, and the deals made there were horrific.
While researching The Lunatic Fringe’s latest attack, she came across sensitive banking information from around the globe tied to Dr. Epoch’s group, and promptly emptied the accounts into an FBI ghost account which she had previously set up.
Celine then ran a search for people looking for information online about The Fringe’s activities. It was here that she ran across the name Seth for the first time. A quick search revealed a young man with an intense superiority complex, and considerably more passion than intelligence. “Hmm…” she thought,“…fascinating”
She quickly transferred all the money from the ghost account into a new account set up for Seth. Celine then cracked open a beer, and called Seth to tell him what she had done. What he saw as a way to honour his work and vision, Celine saw as a way to live the life of which she had dreamed.
Dark Web is rarely in the field with the others, preferring to work from the compound, but when she does she wears a suit of dark purple and black, and a mask/helmet which allows her to access the internet through the movement of her eyes.
She and Pin Up quickly became best friends.
Please follow the instructions below regarding the naming of entries.
Enter a often as you like!
Rules for posts, contests, and challenges: 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. Please keep all submissions PG13: full or partial nudity is prohibited. 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, Deviant Art or whatever);Do not use Photobucket.
Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).
This contest will close at 9am Eastern on Sunday, June 30th.
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The win this week goes to Xinmodic. What pushed this entry over the top was the background story that Xinmodic created. The inclusion of Hurricane Katrina and last year’s team building villains, The Lunatic Fringe, was really a great idea. Not a huge fan of the name Elemarrow, but the power of the back story cannot be denied. Well done you!
Your prize will be posted on the blog later this week.
There was also great story work by Gregorry Basore this week. Good job sir.
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Once again we had a tie last week. Both AMS and Ubiquitous Pixel ccame up with awesome designs. So rather than doing two different designs based on their originals, and since it was a challenge about a morphing character, I decided to morph the best of both entries into one terrifying Guanlong.
AMS original
and UP’s version
My version…
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Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
Nerdmudgeon.com
