Ok guys, time for another caption contest, where you have to come with the funniest replacement dialogue for a random comic panel of my choosing. This week you have to replace the dialogue for this panel:
Everyone can have a maximum of 3 entries, entries must be in by next Wednesday (April 26th) and All Entries Must Be PG-13.
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Classic With A Twist challenges are fairly straightforward. Basically you are charged with taking a traditional character and introducing a new and original take on them.
Your challenge this week is to take Frankenstein’s monster and add your own original twist. Perhaps your version has a steampunk vibe, or maybe your monster is re-imagined as part human, part animal. It’s up to you, so just have fun with it. There is no limit on number of entries.
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. 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 Sunday, April 23rd at 9:00am Eastern.
Posted in Challenges, Character Design Challenges
The winner of this week’s challenge is HerrD.
You can always count on HerrD for thinking outside the box, and coming up with something truly original.
Well done you!
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Look at this poster! Look how awesome it is!
First Thor, now Star Wars! What a week! With Star Wars Celebrations on right now, there was a rumor/hope/thought that perhaps we’d see our first footage for the upcoming Last Jedi. And we got confirmation of that this morning
To kick off this weeks What Were They Thinking (the place where we look at all of the stupidest, most ill-advised things in all of comic book history) I’ve got a scenario for you guys. You are on the creative team for the X-Men at Marvel during the early 90’s and you’ve been given a remit to rejig the series, freshen it up and get rid of some old characters to make way for new, more exciting and more modern ones (read guys with lots of guns and pouches and spikes). What do you do? If your answer is create a new team that goes around killing everyone for an unknown prize, then pat yourself on the back, because you think just like a Marvel employee. And if you also said that you’d just abandon the storyline half-way through without any proper plot resolution, then you obviously know that this week we’re going to be talking about The Upstarts.
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Your Pop Quiz challenge is to re-imagine the Easter Bunny. Could be a hero, villain, sci-fi, zombie, steampunk … whatever puts the hip in your hop.
You only get one entry so 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);
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 Monday, April 17th.
Posted in Challenges, Pop Quiz, Uncategorized
So, last week I asked you guys to come up with the best possible caption for this panel:
And here are my Top 5:
HerrD- Alien Sign Language Proved Difficult
Drinkfluid- Presenting The Next Generation Of Pokemon
Drinkfluid- Hail Cthulhu!
Treasure Hunter- Just Another Day On 3 Mile Island
Tuldabar- Exhibit 37c, where Edward’s first attempt at a squid-human Chimera are causing Alphonse no small amount of concern.
And the winner is….
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8RgYZAAIzY
What a way to start a Monday!
Just super quick thoughts because we’re actually heading out of town right away so I don’t have time for the usual dissection. You can definitely see there’s a change of tone here, although there’s certainly some darker parts. Loving the music choice, personally, and the throwback-style font that’s all Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon-y. There’s some humor, some really epic stuff, and some really dark stuff all thrown together. And Jeff Goldblum! Who else is loving that, because I sure am! I’m one of the few who really like the Thor movies, so I am ready to see where this goes.
Your Character Design Challenge this week is to create an original and unique take on a character from a classic fairy tale.
There is no limit on number of entries this week. Please follow the instructions below for naming your files.
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. 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 Sunday, April 16th at 9:00am Eastern.
Posted in Challenges, Character Design Challenges
Hey ‘machiners!
First, thanks for letting me judge this week’s CDC. It was my suggestion to have a contest on action poses to challenge you on focusing on the foundation of your pics. I read a couple of statements on that it was more of a challenge than first thought. Hopefully we can revisit this subject in future CDC’s with a pose theme like dance or maybe even martial arts. Hmmmmmm…..
Some interesting entries this week with a wide variety of poses. Now as I’m looking for the strongest pose that was entered, I am looking at anatomy, completion of body, centered weight of form and just does it makes sense what is going on without a description. Applying all that, I have come up with my finalist….
Superman punch by kellkin
Great fluid pose that grabbed me right away. Anatomy can be tightened up with size of hands and head adjustment, but the weight of form shows the subject going for the knock out punch to finish the fight.
Congrats kellkin!!
Keep on ‘machining, everyone!
Cheers!
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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
