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Character Design Contest ♯126 (Contest Again) Winner

Posted on June 28, 2015 by JR19759 | 3 comments

Ok, I’d be lying if I said that result wasn’t a little bit worrying. Not who won, but the amount of votes. This weeks poll only got 97 votes apparently, which is the lowest turnout for a poll since CDC63 in March last year. What’s all that about guys? Did everyone decide to take their summer vacation at the same time this week or something? Or did people just look at the poll and say “oh, this guy is gonna win, it’s so obvious, so I’m not gonna vote” (although that’s never stopped anyone before).

Either way, it doesn’t change the outcome, seeing as our winner won by a clear nearly 30 votes. And that winner is DiCicatriz for his Spear Scream character. Congrats DiCi and thanks to everyone who entered and voted.

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Pop Quiz – You Are Getting Sleepy…

Posted on June 27, 2015 by djuby | 6 comments

Your Pop Quiz challenge this time around is to redesign one of the Hypnotist characters from the Public Domain Superhero Wiki found in the link below.

http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Hypnotist_Characters

Be sure to post an image of the original as well just for the fun of it.

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, June 28th.

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Character Of The Week: Suleman- Hover Hands

Posted on June 26, 2015 by JR19759 | 2 comments

Very condensed COTW this week, due to the fact that there hasn’t been much uploaded in the past week. So no Also Awesome, but hopefully it’ll be back next week. I blame summer personally.

But anyways, we still have a COTW and this week it’s Suleman. I love the use of the energy effects for the arms and the colour blending on the chest and gloves is pretty damn nice. Nice use of items, helmets for the shoulders and shoulder pads on the head, though I’m not too sure about the “eyes”, but they aren’t that bad that it puts me off the rest of the picture.

Gallery– Suleman’s Creations

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Kaldath’s Caption Contest #67: Results

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Kaldath | 4 comments

Last week I asked everyone to give me you best dialogue for this image:

Normally I would give you a top five entries and then post the above picture with the winners dialogue put in place however I am a little pressed for time today so instead I will just announce the winner and post the winning dialogue below:

and your winner is ……………

DiCicatriz

“Well this is awkward…”
“One of us is going to have to change.”

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Posted in Caption Challenges, Challenges

Kaldath’s Corner: New Spiderman is Cast

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Kaldath | 4 comments

Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures have cast their new Spiderman as well as picked a director for the film.

Actor Tom Holland will be playing Peter Parker / Spiderman and the director will be Jon Watts

You can read more : HERE:

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Character Design Contest ♯127- What a bunch of posers

Posted on June 22, 2015 by JR19759 | 31 comments

Ok, starting this week, I’m going to do a series of challenges for you guys, to really test your skills with the ‘machine. And we’re going to kick of with a challenge centred around posing. We did this sort of challenge a while back, so everyone should know the drill. You cannot use the standard face-forward pose. The pose has to be of your own creation, so you can’t use pre-made poses from the forums custom item section. Also, I’m only judging on the pose and, to an extent, how well you’ve adapted the costume elements to the pose, so don’t include backgrounds. That’ll come later.

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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Posted in Challenges, Character Design Challenges

Pop Quiz – Colour Me Bad! (and by bad I mean good!)

Posted on June 21, 2015 by djuby | 4 comments

Your Pop Quiz challenge this time around is to colour this handsome devil found in Companions – Humanoid.

That’s right…colour…just colour. Feel free to mask, shade and highlight as much as you want…or not. Backgrounds should remain white, but you may also choose a solid black background if you wish.

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 9am Eastern on Monday, June 22nd.

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Character Design Contest ♯126 (Contest Again) Poll

Posted on June 21, 2015 by JR19759 | Comments Off

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Character Design Contest ♯125 (TGT) Winner

Posted on June 21, 2015 by JR19759 | 7 comments

Well, we haven’t had this name mentioned in the contest winners segment for quite a while now. I suppose that’s what you get when you are more sporadic with your contest entrances. But either way, I’m surprised that it’s been over 40 contests since his last win. Anyway, this weeks winner is djuby for his Wild West Saloon Girl Hover Bot. Congrats djuby, and well done to everyone who entered.

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Character Of The Week: Zyp- Work In Progress

Posted on June 19, 2015 by JR19759 | 6 comments

I don’t think that we’ve ever featured a w.i.p on Character Of The Week before But then, this is one of Zyp’s works in progress, so you already know the level of quality we’re talking about here. Just look at the shading. That’s gone beyond Zyping (his own technique), it’s even gone beyond Jeimuzu’s cell-shading technique. It’s quite honestly one of the most incredible things I’ve seen on heromachine and is a testament to what you can do by thinking outside the box with this program.