Character Design Contest ♯55- Old School: Speedster

 

Ok guys, this week I want you to create a speedster character. It can be hero, villain, modern or golden age. The only proviso I have is that they must be shown using their power.

As per usual, no limits on entries this week, the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). Please read the 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 Help

Hi all, I'm back. I missed posting and talking to everyone. I'm not back to full power yet (and don't know if I can get there), but I'm going to see what I can do. Over the years working with Hero Machine, I have noticed that some people need help getting a character just the way they want them. I have helped with giving recipes (I may get back to them here in the future) and trying my hand at doing the design and showing what I have come up with. Most of you know that I mainly do the plain Jane characters, not all the Zypping and extra shading, I like the way the characters look just the way they come out of the machine. I'm not saying the other ones are not good, because they are great, it's just not my cup of tea. So to get to the topic at hand, "Character Design Help", here is the way this works.

Ask for help with any designs you need too. If I can not answer the question, I am sure one of the other creators can put their two cents in and we can help you work things out. You can post a sample picture of the design you want to make and I will give it a try to see what I can come up with. Other creators are welcome to show what they come up with too. Remember this is a "help" post, if you want to share your characters you are welcome to post them in the forum, we would all love to see the work you do posted there. It really is a great place to share your art, or just to talk to other creators, it is a friendly place for all ages to visit and enjoy. Always keep in mind that we can not do copyrighted characters here, I know that there are designs and styles of characters that you would love to have your character look like, but we need to play it safe. This being said, ask for help with making the design and not for making the character. Try to keep your help request to one a week for now, until I am able to get my legs back under me. I will try to respond as soon as I can, I'm am not as fast as I was before. If your request is not answered with in the week posted it does not mean that it is not being worked on. I will try to let you know if I am able to help or not. Remember other creators are always welcome to help out.

As always, please forgive me for spelling and grammar mistakes. Thanks, Hammerknight.

Character Design Contest ♯54 (Flying)- Poll

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Body Shop Delivery Arrived

Just rolled off the assembly line and already available under "Body/Mech":
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I hope you can make use of it. 😉

The Big Question ♯23

Now, some of you may remember back in the summer, I ran this series called "The Big Question" here on the blog, where I'd give you guys a topic, give my thoughts on it and then let you guys discuss it. It got dropped by the wayside because I ran out of topics that really interested me, but recently I've been going back through them and something sparked my interest. It was one of the earliest BQ's, on the topic of why Batman is so popular. Some of the answers I got were very thought provoking, so I started wondering, what about other characters. So that's what we're going to be doing over the next few weeks. Discussing the reasons for the popularity of two of the greatest and most popular superheroes in existence. Starting with this guy.

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Female Body Alternate Added

The female version of the Body Alternate set is now live for HeroMachine 3. It's all what you'd expect, except I did change the "toon" body quite a bit from its male iteration:

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Enjoy!

I’m about to reset your password!

As part of the effort to stop the hacking of the site, I'm about to reset everyone's passwords. My apologies, but it looks like that might be where the problem is happening so this is one way to combat it.

Update: I just completed the reset. You should get your new auto-generated random password by email. If you don't have it, check your spam folder, it might be in there. Or, you can go directly to http://www.heromachine.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword to reset it manually with either your site username or registered email address.

My apologies for the irritation, believe me, I'm feeling it too.

Is anyone seeing "Cash Back" offers instead of HM3?

Someone on the HeroMachine Facebook page (like us if you haven't already!) is reporting that when they go to HM3 in any browser, they're seeing this instead:

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Is anyone else experiencing anything like that?

HeroMachine Blog & Forums

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Hello folk, With 2014 here I thought I'd make a few inquires. First I would like to know, how many of you here that read the blog use our forums? and if not why not? Secondly since this post will be shared on our facebook and google+ pages I'd like to know from our social media communities, do you folks visit the site and read the blog or read the forums ? Again if not why not ? I will be checking the Facebook and Google+ pages to see your responses.

Next I would like to ask you blog readers what additional content you would like to see us cover here. I can't make any promises, and I certainly can not speak for JR, dblade, CKnap, or FRM on this, however I will give any of your suggestions due consideration and if I feel confident I can cover the content you suggest I will give it a try, as time constraints allow anyway. I would also like to add that I plan on experimenting a bit with Vlogging and submitting some of my posts as Youtube videos instead of a written article and I plan on doing my first video within the next few weeks and record an Anime Talk review.

Thank you all for taking the time to leave me your feedback, it is my hope to hear from all of you. It is my wish to keep our content here on the blog and forums fresh and help bring the HeroMachine Community to that next level!

Whiz Bang Item Creation Poll #3 (Monstrous Feet)

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This week's poll theme is monstrous feet. We have wood, reptilian, and rhino to choose from.

Now's your chance to decide what artwork I will work on next. Whatever wins the vote will be completed the following week. This doesn't mean I won't work on other pieces. The winning piece will just be guaranteed my attention.

This poll will end on Wednesday, January 8th.