Gotham – The Series – Teaser Trailer

http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/gotham-batman-fox-1201172226/

HM3: Tip of the Hat (Reward for CDC#63: Gadgets)

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Here is a top hat with its steampunk gear counterpart. These were prize items requested by Rapidosian (AKA QuantumCookies) for winning Character Design Contest #63 (Gadgets).

These items can be found in Headgear/Modern.

 

 

HM3: Compass Rose

So far this morning you've gotten a new site install that's super zippy AND that lets you log in thanks to Ben. I handed over a new version of HeroMachine 3 that once again allows exporting from Chrome. Which are both cool things but they're not really new, they just fix things that were more or less broken. It's like waking up Christmas morning and getting your old bike with a new coat of paint and the horn fixed.

So to complete the trifecta with a brand spanking new present, I've added a compass rose to the Insignia-Tech set for use in making maps or for a navigational-themed character. Or flag, tattoo, very odd Companion, whatever your fancy suggests. Enjoy!

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Chrome Image Exporting fixed for reals this time

I've thought I had the bug fixed in the past where you couldn't export an image out of Chrome, but this time I think I've actually done it. I've tested in both computers I have available here (sadly, both are Macs, so if you are running Chrome on Windows please give it a shot and let me know how it works for you) and it exports the image successfully, and then returns the character to the proper spot instead of 30 pixels off to the left.

Please let me know any issues you run into and thank you very much for your patience.

Character Design Contest ♯72- Mythological Creatures

Salutations my fellow 'machiners. For this weeks contest I would like you to take a look at this here list of creatures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mythological_creatures (well, it's more of a collection of lists, but you get the idea) and re-imagine something from it. Beware though, you're gonna have to be really good if you do a dragon or a fairy or the like, because I'd like to see originality here. I mean, we did fantasy a few weeks ago and there are more legends than have been used in any fantasy setting, so try to come up with something unusual ok. But yeah, anything on any of those lists is fair game, from the A Bao A Qu to the Zunbera-Bo. So with that all said, I look forward to seeing what y'all can come up with.

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: http://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.

And we're back.

Good evening, everyone!

I just finished fixing the bug with logging in. You should now have full access to the forums and other membership-related aspects of the site. Please comment here if you find any other issues.

Over the coming weeks, we will be making other technical changes to HeroMachine in order to give you a better, more reliable experience. This will, unfortunately, include some downtime here and there, but once we're done, we'll have a rock-solid site for the foreseeable future.

As always, keep your eyes peeled here for updates. And thanks for your patience with our site upgrade!

Commission: Wonderland

The client wishes to remain anonymous, but the illustration was for two of the main characters to be fighting off invading card soldiers from Wonderland:

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Character Design Contest ♯71 (Scenery) Poll

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Character Design Contest ♯70 (Fantasy) Winner

The winner of this weeks poll won by a fair margin, which, considering the calibre of the competition, is quite an achievement. And that winner is Candruth for Priestess. Congratulations Candruth, please make sure you speak to dblade about your prize, and well done to all our other finalists and everyone who entered.

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Custom Illustration: Arrow Wolf

I think I forgot to post this one a few weeks back when I was finished with it, but "Arrow Wolf" is a character by Brad Carter. Here's the HeroMachine 3 version he sent me:

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The description I got was:

Arrow-Wolf is an archer and a swordsman his costume is a mix between indian and a knight his companion is Jackle the legendary black wolf id like him to be in the pic to if that's extra money no problem I want the costume for arrow-wolf to be somewhat diff I had an idea of his hood being made out of a wolf's hide his eyes would be looking out of where the wolf's eyes would be and he wears warpaint ... arrow wolf is about 5'11 200lbs of muscle kinda athletic built I told you about the hood I wanted for him but im not sure if its gonna look right or not so we can play witht he idea though he has arrows and small throwing knives he uses as his gadgets ...

We did a bit of back and forth on the design and ultimately we ended up with this illustration:

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Remember, you can order your own custom color character illustration here, it's just $50 for one figure.