Category Archives: Character Design Challenges

The Game is on this week. Design a hero that is based on a sport. Knock me out of the ball park with your designs. Limit three entries per person this week.

For the month of January there are five winners. Contest #9 started on January 28th, this means more then half of the contest time was in January. (Believe it or not February will have four winners.) So take some time and vote for the best character. Poll will be open thru Febuary 15 until midnight. Good luck everyone. The winner will win a prize from our prize giver DBlade, the Mighty and Wise. (I have to suck up a little to get the prizes for you. lol)[polldaddy poll="6888138"]

There were a lot of awesome designs this week. The winner this week is Kellkin. Sorry for the short and sweet but I've been busy.

This weeks contest takes us back in time to America's old west. Gunslingers and Indian fighters, stage coaches, and the pony express. Your challenge is to create the villain of an old west story. The bad guy that wanted to kill every good guy and still his woman. The guy that every man with a badge had to fight. I'm going to put a limit of three entries per person this week. Have fun and good luck.4

There were a lot of great entries this week. Seeing what other people think about a subject like Atlantis is very cool. Everyone looks through a different window in life, it is hard to picture what others see, until you you are able to see the picture they have in their minds. And I believe that HM allows us to do just that. I narrowed it down to the top six this week. Here they are in no particular order.

Kellkin- Is becoming one of the fast rising stars here in HM. This is a wonderful design. Great colors for the character, they make her standout. Very nicely designed background.

Jr19759-This is a very strong character. A very well put together design.

Djuby- What can I say, your character made me hungry for some crab legs. lol  Great job with the legs and the transition from the legs to the body.

Headlessgeneral- Characters like this make me wonder about the designs you could come up with if you had a head. Great work. He looks like he is ready to take on anything that would come his way.

Scatman- Wow, she is great, one of the better tail designs I've seen on HM.

Scatman- You are making a habit of having more than one of your characters hit the top list. Great colors and design.

The winner for this week is Scatman. Great work.

I would like to thank my wife for helping me judge these contest. Everyone's characters were great. I would love to have the time to set down and do a write up on each character, but at this time I do not have the time. Just because your character was not included in the top list doesn't mean that I did not like it.

This week you need to design the main character of your very own Horror Movie. Scare us with the scariest character out there. You have to make us want to go out and get a loan so we can see the movie.

How to have you character disqualified:

#1-Not naming the file correctly. Have your name first and then your character's name (just like the picture included shows), in the file's name.

#2-Unable to right click and save. If the site you have your character on will not allow me to right click and save your character, I will not enter it in the contest.

Please follow these rules there are to many wonderful characters that may lose out.

All I can say is wow. Forty-nine entries this week I believe that is the most entries for a contest since I took over for Jeff. They all were great and it was another hard one to judge, I like them all. When I judge a contest one of the things that I look for is how much  the people pay attention to the description of the contest. For an example, the title of this contest was "The Nature  of Wings", hence I was looking for wings that nature provides. Yes I am a true believer of "attention to detail" as a lot of you know already. I have picked out a top ten list  and here they are in no particular order.

AMS, did a wonderful job as always. The pose and the color scheme are great. And the shading is above and beyond.

Blaq Aries, WOW, that pose is killer. And the background is a very cool design.

Dblade, you are out of the box with your use of items. Great color and shading as well.

Djuby, this is truly a jaw dropping character. WOW is the only way I can think of to describe it.

Kaldath, great character design and a stellar background.

Kellkin, simple but very impressive.

Kellkin, you did a wonderful job with the character in her arms. Great.

Skybandit, what can I say, you have been entering some down right wonderful characters.

Tool, great work on bringing together the armor and the wings.

Tool, another great character, it has a wonderful native feel to it.

But as they say, there can be only one. And this weeks winner is Blaq Aries. Your gargoyle is great and the background makes the character jump off the screen at you. Great job everyone. I'm looking forward to seeing more characters from every Hero Machiner out there.

P.S. Sorry for the short sweet post, I was working outside today and ended up getting blisters on a couple of my fingers and the skin came off. So fingers are raw and it's hard to work the mouse. I'll post all the entries by the end of the week.

For this week's contest Atlantis has been found. What do you think the people of Atlantis would look like? No limit again this week. Have fun.

This was a very interesting contest. Another one that was hard to judge. The winner this

week is Keith Kanin. Good job everyone.

This week's contest will be "The Nature Of Wings", that's right characters with wings. Angels, fairies, demons, and the like, anything that has natural wings. Please name your character and tell us what race they are in your comments. Same rules as before. No Limit. If I am unable to bring up your character when it is time for me to judge it will be disqualified.