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Pop Quiz – To Be, Or Not To Be…A Hero Or A Villain?

Posted on August 15, 2015 by djuby | Comments Off

MACBETH

On August 15^th, 1057 - Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was killed by the son of King Duncan.

Your Pop Quiz challenge this time around is to choose one of Shakespeare’s classic characters and re-imagine them as a modern day superhero or villain. Add a brief (brief!) description of their powers, or let the image stand on its’ own.

There is no prize. There is no poll. The winner is chosen by me.

You only get one entry so be creative, and above all else, have fun!

All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine forums,ImageShack, PhotoBucket, or whatever);

Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
The image must be new and designed specifically for the Pop Quiz;
No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
Please name your filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his “Bayou Belle” character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.
Please make the link go directly to the image(like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this). See this post on how to get the direct link for most sites.

This contest will close at 6pm Eastern on Sunday, August 16th.

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HM3: One for the road…

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Mad Jack | Comments Off

Had another item lying around - put it in the 'machine. You'll find it under "Headgear/Modern". Moar (damn thats contagious) to come... 😉

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Character Of The Week: AMS- Mirage

Posted on August 14, 2015 by JR19759 | Comments Off

Ok, first things first, sorry there wasn't a COTW up last Friday. I'd had a very busy end to the week and I just forgot. Stuff happens sometimes unfortunately, but don't worry I won't make a habit of it. Anyway, to make up for it, have some AMSing art. Why? Because he's the best. Always was, probably always will be. Flash fact. Oh and anyone who says that this face isn't one of the most beautiful they've seen done in heromachine needs to go replace their eyes because they are obviously broken. Same goes for the costume.

Gallery: does anyone really need a link to this anymore?

Continue reading →

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HM3: Boots, Belts, and Badashery

Posted on August 13, 2015 by dblade | Comments Off

Moar as promised.

Some prize winners from the past. Vectorman316's prize request was the boots. These can be found in FootRight/MaleTech and Legwear/Kneepads. And Yautja's prize request was the belt/suspenders/pouch which can be found in Belt/Military.

I hope you don't mind but I got really swoll so I could model these items properly.

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HM3: Wings and Molars!

Posted on August 10, 2015 by dblade | Comments Off

Wellllllll....here are a few items that have gone live on the Machine. More to come later.

The wings can be found in Backplane/Wings and the mouth can be found in Mouth/Standard.

((ducks back into hole))

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Character Design Contest ♯134- Itemised

Posted on August 10, 2015 by JR19759 | Comments Off

Ok guys, earlier this week MadJack was kind enough to provide us with a plethora of new items to use. You can find a list of them here. So your challenge this week is simple. You must create an image using any three of these items. That's it. Well no actually that's not it. You must use items from three different sub-categories (e.g. headgear-standard, headgear-glasses and insignia-shapes would be a viable combination, but not three from insignia-shapes, so no blood-splatter overuse). Hopefully that's clear enough.

As per usual, no limits on entries and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). Please read the contest rules before entering, have fun and good luck.

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. Only post characters that you have either created for this contest specifically or you know for certain have never been entered to 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.

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Character Design Contest ♯133 (Great Intelligence) Poll

Posted on August 9, 2015 by JR19759 | Comments Off

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Character Design Contest ♯132 (One Slot) Winner

Posted on August 9, 2015 by JR19759 | Comments Off

Yet another low turnout for the poll to mirror the low turnout for the entries, but even so, this poll did throw up some surprises. I knew it was going to be close, but I didn't expect our eventual second place finisher to be the one challenging for the win, considering it was the most "standard" of our entries, but there you go. I guess people must have really liked it for this one.

And the second surprise comes from the fact that, according to my records (which admittedly do only cover Hammerknights and my own contests, so there may be a Jeff run contest I don't know about here), this is the first CDC win for our winner, which is amazing considering his Power User status. But then Herr D (who won with his piece Foggy Moonrise On Aelihoh) was never one for being conventional. So congratulations Herr D, and well done to all of our contestants.