These mech legs were a prize request from Extremely Epic for winning Character Design Contest #71: Scenery. They come in three separate pieces and can be found stomping around the Body/Mech category.
Posted in HeroMachine 3, New Item Releases, News & Updates
This weeks COTW I had to feature not only because of the fact it’s a great image, but for all of the symbolism included and the thought that went into it.
Ok, we’ll kick off with the usual stuff. The shading is excellent. There is a chance that when you do shading with near full alpha settings, you can end up with shading that looks messy and horrible, which is why I tend to prefer using at most 75% alpha on the shading circle, but Therianthrope has a knack of actually making it work. The shading on the face is a very good example of this, as well as a good example of adding depth without using the standard black. The face looks incredibly realistic and the expression just draws you in. However, while we’re on the shading, I do think he missed a trick by not putting a shadow underfoot of the character and the skull beneath the left foot, it makes the character look slightly divorced from the background at the point they meet.
My favourite part of the image is not the shading though, it’s actually the left hand. It’s so stupidly simple, but I haven’t actually seen those two hands used together in that way before. It’s impossible to mask to the palm up hand that is used as the back part of the hand here, or at least impossible to mask in a way that looks good, so using the grasping fingers makes sense. But I haven’t seen it before. Maybe it’s just no-one has had need to use those items in that way, but I had to make mention of it because it just works so well and I will be borrowing that idea at some point in the future.
Finally we get on to all of the symbolism and for that I’m going to let Therianthrope speak for himself. As he posted on his forum thread:
“The rapier standing for his clans strength – wielded with finesse, the scroll standing for his learned status, the mirror in the back indicating his wealth, the statue of the wolf indicating he is Cainite, and the skull under his left foot is for his clans mastery over death (they’re necromancers).”
I love all of the thought that was put into all of the little details and inclusions in here. Everything has a place and a meaning, nothing is out of place or needlessly included. It just works.
Posted in Character of the Week, Cool Characters
It is again time for our weekly caption contest and this week your challenge is to give your best dialogue for this image:
The normal rules apply, which are: You are limited to Three (3) entries which are due by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday October 7th. Of course I as always expect you to keep your entries no worse then 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!
Posted in Caption Challenges, Challenges
Last week I asked you all to give me your best dialogue for the following image:
After a bit of a delay in the judging here are my top five entries.
1. Spider-Man: What the hell is all of this?
Deadpool: Hey, I was created by Rob Liefeld.
*****
Deadpool: I call it the Liefeld look.
Spider-Man: I call it gaudy and unnecessary.
*****
S: What’s with the belt-buckle that looks like my face?
D: It looks like you’re sticking your tongue out when you pee!
*****
SM- Don’t you think this is overkill for a kid’s show appearance?
DP- Those 8 year olds can be a tough crowd.
*****
Spider-man: Can’t tell if all this makes me feel heavier or if it’s the ego attached to it…
Deadpool: Defiantly a little a heavy since it flattened your spidey feet!
*****
And our winner is ……………………………………………
Posted in Caption Challenges, Challenges
Ok guys, time for the first of our Community Submissions, this week brought to you courtesy of Skybandit. Submissions next Thursday are now open. You can find the rules and other submission information here: Link
Anyway, I will now go away and leave you with Skybandit.
Posted in Sharing Day, Super-Hero Stuff
It’s been a while since we’ve done a Public Domain redesign contest, so let’s have one this week. What I want you to do is pick some characters from the list below and redesign them to fit a modern comic book feel. Simple as that.
List here: http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Comic_Book_Characters
As per usual, no limits on entries this week and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). The winner gets to claim a custom made item from dblade to be put into heromachine, so long as the item conforms to his prize rules, which you can find here: https://www.heromachine.com/forum/the-heromachine-art-gallery/dblades-whiz-bang-item-dispenser/. 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.
Posted in Challenges, Character Design Challenges
Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
Nerdmudgeon.com
