Character Design Contest ♯123 (All Winners Squad) Winner

Definitely an interesting result for this one. It was a close poll, 8 votes between the top 3, which is always nice, but I for one certainly wasn’t expecting our eventual winner to pick up the win, considering some of the other entries. But I guess the picture explains how he pulled it off. Either that or this meme is more popular than I thought. So congratulations to CosmicComics for picking up his second win in as many weeks with his pic Aliens. And of course well done to everyone else who entered.

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OCD (Open Critique Day) #29

I’m sorry this is late, guys. My computer’s been a little flaky.

How this goes:  You post a work of yours, finished or WIP, and then others give you critiques on your work. I do not mind if you post non-HM pictures or piece of writing. Just make sure that you only post pictures that are your own design and not any that are copyrighted or based off of copyrighted characters. 

Also, if you post a work, it is highly recommended that you also give someone else a critique.

Even this is called Open Critique Day, I allow (even welcome!) for you guys to post and discuss on this for the weekend until 11:59 pm Sunday.

Character Of The Week: AMS- Disturbed & Maverik1313- t90

Well, it’s been a while since we’ve had an AMS picture as COTW hasn’t it. Strange really, because he is still the most consistent member of the community when it comes to his characters and designs. And of course this is no exception (despite the fact it is neither his character nor his design, but an Art Trade with someone on deviantart but anyways). Best bits for me, apart obviously from the shading which is always a highlight when talking about AMS, is the energy effect on the right hand (especially with the white outline that borders the hand, which is a great touch) and the background. Having the background allows the character to stand out more, but the fact that that background is dissected by a number of white lines just makes it that bit more visually interesting.

Gallery- Planet AMS]

And that was originally going to be that. Round of applause for AMS and we jump to the also awesome for the week. However, I woke up this morning and found this in amongst all of the stuff that had been posted while I was asleep.

Now anyone familiar with Mav’s work knows that he does a lot of recreations of military vehicles, but this is something else. Not only is the tank superbly constructed (and when I say superb I mean it. He’s used zips for treads and a pole-arm as the gun barrel for gods sake). And then you have the background. I love the colours in the sky, it’s not your normal blue sky with a bit of yellow to show that it’s sunrise, and it really sells the fact that it’s set in a desert. Brilliant.

Gallery- Mav’s Armory

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Kaldath’s Caption Contest #66

Welcome Ladies, Gentlemen and Fellow Machiners! It is once again time for our bi-weekly caption contest and this week I want your best dialogue for this image:

SuperBat 1

The normal rules apply, which are: You are limited to Three (3) entries which are due by 5:00 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday June 9th. Of course I as always expect you to keep your entries no worse than PG-13 in nature and that you follow all the normal rules of the forum when writing your caption for the above image. That being said I wish you all Good luck!

Kaldath’s Caption Contest #65: Results

Well after a bit of a delay it is time to judge our latest caption contest of which I asked you to give me your best dialogue for this image:

Swamp thing 1

And My top five entries are:

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hawk007
Give me my little brother and no one get’s hurt.
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“Just one cup of broccoli provides over 100% of your daily need for vitamin C and vitamin K, and is also a good source of vitamin A, folate and potassium.”
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KatmirStone
Barbecue sauce isn’t salad dressing!

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dreadyacht
GIVE ME MY NOOOOOOOOOSE!
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PMD_Warrior
I must become even greener
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And your winner is ……………………………….

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Character Design Contest ♯124- JR’s 100th

Eeyup. Today marks the 100th CDC that has occurred under my supervision since I was made a moderator and blog author for the site over 2 years ago. Hopefully you’ve all enjoyed the madness that ensued, it’s certainly been fun for me. And considering it’s a milestone, I’m gonna celebrate.

So, the idea is; just impress me. Simple as that. Show me something awesome you’ve created in Heromachine, as long as it isn’t something that has previously entered into a contest. But of course there is a catch. Y’all only have one shot at this. Yup, one entry only (sits back and watches Cliff implode and explode simultaneously). So make it a good one.

Oh and you know that poll thingy-majig that you all seem to like so much. That’s getting kicked for this week. When I said you’ve got to impress me, I meant me and me alone. The only way you guys are influencing who wins this week is by entering, I’m deciding who takes the no-prize. *evil smirk* Don’t worry, I don’t play favourites… often.

As I said earlier, one entry only this week 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.

Character Design Contest ♯123 (All Winners Squad) Poll

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Character Design Contest ♯122 (Secret Identities) Winner

I must say, I like how we can now hit around the 200 votes mark for these polls regularly. Back when I started we’d be luck to break 100 votes for a poll. You guys have really started coming out to support our contestants that’s for sure. I mean, this week managed to break 230 votes, which is one of the highest turnouts we’ve ever had. And it wasn’t a walk-over, although having said that, two of our contestants did run off and leave the others in the dust. But they kept fighting until the end at least, so it was interesting. Anyway, our eventual winner was in fact CosmicComics for their The Judge. Congrats CC and well done to everyone else who entered, especially those who got onto the poll.

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OCD (Open Critique Day) #28

How this goes:  You post a work of yours, finished or WIP, and then others give you critiques on your work. I do not mind if you post non-HM pictures or piece of writing. Just make sure that you only post pictures that are your own design and not any that are copyrighted or based off of copyrighted characters. 

Also, if you post a work, it is highly recommended that you also give someone else a critique.

Even this is called Open Critique Day, I allow (even welcome!) for you guys to post and discuss on this for the weekend until 11:59 pm Sunday.

Character Of The Week: Candruth- Hooded Man

You know, sometimes it’s so blindingly obvious what COTW is going to be for a certain week that I end up convincing myself that, actually, there has to be something that I’m missing, something that is better. So I look around everyone’s galleries from the week and find a ton of great art. And then I end up back at the obvious contender and I’m just like “Ooooooh, so that’s why it was so blindly obvious.” Not slighting any of the guys who make it into the Also Awesome section, you wouldn’t be there if you weren’t awesome (it says as much in the title), but sometimes your gut instinct is what you should go with. And of course, the whole point of that missive is because that’s what happened this week. “I can’t feature Candruth again, that’s way too obvious, there’s got to be something I’ve missed.” 10 minutes later- “Wait, that’s superb, what was I thinking.”

Gallery- Candruth’s Characters :3

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