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A sliced mountain would make a neat background for him.

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Welcome back. Love your blue lady. Behemoth is a cutie–do you have it on a scaling background?

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Welcome back. Yeah, Brickhouse Mason looks tasty. Very nice work on the clipboard, too.

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Your cast has grown too. Nice interplay.

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The stages in sequence are their own effect. Well done.

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–Technically you can also have between categories. Wolverine isn’t just a mutant. He was given an adamantium skeleton coating. That might make him an augmented mutant. Artificial augmentation (surgical or suit-wearing) is not cyborg exactly.

Some people like the idea that trauma or repetitive and chronic abuse can ‘bring out’ the supernatural or magical or mystical ‘stuff’ that all of us have deep down. That would fall under human. Dr. Strange supposedly trained and traded for his powers. That’s human with outside augmentation.

There’s also dimensional travel as a source of changing one’s nature.

T-cells from Resident Evil might also be worth checking out.

 

Let me know–I work with any story that doesn’t involve extreme evil. They get enough press.

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Hvidgrandr looks like he’s ready to fight the Xylophonicus Beast, the only reptile to require hits to each of his twenty-one ribs within four seconds to be killed by less than a megaton of explosives. I think your guy’ll win. Interesting works.

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Thank you!  . . . Don’t you mean I took it by an eyelash? Oh, well. Yeah, it’s really hard to make the protruding-breast-squashed-by-the-arm-crossing-the-chest-too-close look right. That may have been too ambitious. The rest of the problems were just hurry.  Real life multitasking wasn’t so successful . . .

–Ahem! Sorry.

Let’s say due at (EST) 10am, 12/14/16, because I like semi-serious series, judgement to be submitted btw 18:00  and 20:00 same day. Here’s the three items for all you  victi enthusiastic entrants.

 

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Cast has mushroomed. Good stuff. Do you want suggestions for power origin?

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Power user profiles and Hall of Fame entries are less common these days, but I’ll 2nd your nominations right here and now. You’ve obviously learned exponentially.

How many layers was that latest smiley-faced man?

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@Keric: I got Star Trek, but thought you must mean a specific event–ah, well.

This one is called ‘Multitasker,’ a shout-out to all of us who don’t have time but somehow find a way . . .

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2015hm/HerrD-Multitasker_zpsrgnccqja.png

*The eye became the character’s hair and paintbrush and part of the paint being mixed on the palette. The gun became her hair dryer, which is drying her hair, the painting, and the paint in her hair and on her hip. The ground piece became the abstract art and part of the paint palette sworl.

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‘hitler’s rex’ is a designation given to an unnamed character. I’ve dubbed it ‘Das Maschine’ for the ‘Big Time’ contest. Here we have it catching a rocket fired at it.

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2015hm/HerrD-hitlersrexorDasMaschineCatchesTheRocket_zpsyyqti9f2.png

*big time

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This one is called ‘Multitasker,’ a shout-out to all of us who don’t have time but somehow find a way . . .

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2015hm/HerrD-Multitasker_zpsrgnccqja.png

*opmc

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Ah, good, a gallery . . . ! You haven’t tried the Fonts category yet? Do yourself a favor while you’re waiting to judge (deadline?) take an pervasive tour of hm’s features and sections.

[dashes up wall, across ceiling, and into studio to get started on new pic]

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First off, thanx Randall, for letting us know not to worry. Good luck on your other deadlines.

 

Now. On to business:

Extra point for holiday season goes to each entrant right off the bat. I knew you could do it, you contest entrants, you.

–For those tuning in late, I’m all about ‘misusing’ items from the vast clip art treasure trove. That’s a one for findable with or without prompting / questioning. That’s at least a two for “abuse,” or leaving category in an emphatic manner. That’s a three for incorporating / manipulating in a way that makes it less obvious but still present and belonging to the pic.

Concision of design isn’t something I normally mention here, but C got all three items in the FACE OF ONE CHARACTER. I have no score bonus for that, and I’m beginning to wonder if that is an oversight on my part. A good design does tend to be concise, efficient.

Anyway, C’s items all left category behind and looked good. The Braided Beard item looked slightly less like it belonged to me. Maybe the coloring just struck me as wrong? A sparkle might’ve made it up, but I’m not sure. (Somebody posted a tutorial for those, gotta give him a plug for the new girl.)

K’s items? The mask was a mask, and it began to tell me something. If you’d had a backstory posted to ‘explain it to us westerners,’ that would’ve surged up. The BB was still hair, but topped the head and became part of the posing, enough to tie C for that item. The scarf was still clothes, but seamlessly became a different garment. Not as easy as it looks—your thread has examples of you doing that stuff.

Then there’s the general contribution category. The emotional content was noticeably different, but the item’s contributions to it were about the same. C pushed every button. K could’ve added a big performance smile to the skater or cheering arms to the crowd (or something else) for more emotional effect. Maybe an announcer looking impressed or flabbergasted at the ‘Triple-Axle-Tree-Trimming-Contest’ Champion?

Bells here means presence by virtue of item or holistic effect contributed. Pivotal, both of you. Nothing extraneous about the three items themselves.

Whistles is about minor pieces or features like placement, posing, shading, highlighting, etc. C did some great shading and placement. K did great posing, down to the hair. I wish I’d seen some ice fragments spraying up or the skater’s shadow or something. K would’ve tied her here, except for a sleeve problem.

Finally there are background and story. C managed to push every button again. If anything, a fewmore subtly-placed but specific details might’ve made that a 5. If there is anything there that shouldn’t be, it’s the Santa’s sleigh and reindeer. I hope you use it somewhere else. It took away from an otherwise perfect background somehow—didn’t belong. If it had been on a neighboring house or something . . . no worries, your point is safe. You seamlessly got there with the backstory.

K had no backstory. The minimalist background WORKS, though, for this. Did she win the T-A-T-T-C? I actually want to know.

C has a clear victory here. CHRISTIE S! Pick three items and post a deadline! You are the winner and so now judge of the next OPMC!

(Breakdown below)

Backstory score: ………………..C4……K0

Bkgd score:………..……………C3.5…..K3.5

Scarf:……………….…………….C4.…….K3.5

Braided Beard: ………………….C3.5……K3.5

Mask: …………….………….…C4….….K3

Bells: …………………….…….C4…..….K4

Whistles: ………………….…….C4………K3.5

Items-story:………………..……C5……..K4.5

Emotional:……………….……..C5…..….K4
Seasonal theme ….…………..C1……….K1
………………………………………C38…..K30.5

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Mr. Bobby “Babyface” McInarry, his wife Clara “Scary Clara,” and Junior  or “Dozen” all arrived for consideration at circus tryouts being held at the Wassupwidalladis County fairground. They were selected second, but the cameraman fainted when asked to capture a likeness of the first selected family.

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