Custom Illustration: Demora

Another commissioned piece for Brad Carter, his arch-villain Demora. Here's the original HM3 version:

Demora

Demora

And here's the final piece:

Brad-Demora-Web

If you like it, please let Brad know in the comments. And if you want your own commissioned piece of artwork, you can find out more here!

Sharing Day with JR19759

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk7Qm0uvDgc

This weeks question: Do you do anything creative besides Heromachine? (Art, music, video etc.)

META: New site updates

As you've seen from the most excellent Ben Finn below, we've migrated the server over to the new host, but with some problems. Specifically, the Premium content pages and the forums aren't letting people log in.

Ben (and I, but mostly Ben) is working assiduously to figure out what the bug is. I apologize for the inconvenience and frustration, but hopefully things'll be squared away soon. In the meantime, the apps all still work so you can continue to create away.

A big THANK YOU to Ben for handling all this, too!

HeroMachine – Site Upgrade in Progress

Hey, folks!

We've moved HeroMachine.com to it's snazzy new server. Most things are up and functional, but we're still encountering a few bugs, specifically:

  • logging into the forums is problematic
  • some premium content may be unavailable

We're working overtime to correct these bugs, and we'll let you know when they're fixed.

If you're having any other issues with the site, please comment on this post.

Thanks, and sorry for any inconvenience!

- Ben

Star Wars Episode 7 Cast Announced…

Featuring an exorcist and a creepy middle earth guy.

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2014/04/29/star-wars-episode-vii-cast-announced

Chrome Exporting is now fixed!

Over the weekend an old client called with a new bug in their HeroMachine version after the last Flash Player updated. We spent a couple of days figuring out what went wrong and now it's fine, but along the way I stumbled across a workaround for the image exporting bug Google introduced in their last Chrome updated. Using this new (actually, very old) method instead, I was able to get this important feature working again. So now if, like me, you're a Chrome user, you can once again export your HeroMachine 3 creations as a PNG or JPG. Hooray!

Character Design Contest ♯71- Scenery

So guys, this week I want you to create an awesome background scene. So that means I don't want a character, just the background. You can include people in the scene but the main focus must be the scenery its self. This should be fun.

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.

Character Design Contest ♯70 (Fantasy) Poll

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Character Design Contest ♯69 (Non-Humanoid) Winner

The winner of this weeks poll was none other than Stulte for his amazing Angler. Congrats Stulte, please go speak to dblade about your prize, and well done to everyone who entered (applicably that is).

69 Stulte- Angler

Special Contest for JJ Baskin

The man who introduced my wife and I seventeen years ago, our good friend JJ Baskin, has just been diagnosed with brain cancer. He's a wonderful man, an incredible father, and a fantastic husband. He and his family are concentrating on staying positive and focusing on the fight with an eye to a long and happy future, so I want to help bring them a little lightness in this dark time.

So I've added a drawing of JJ to the "Head-Winners" set of HeroMachine 3 items (because one thing he definitely is, is a winner!):

jj

Your challenge is to create a character featuring JJ's likeness somewhere (presumably on the end of the neck where it would normally go, but I know you all well enough to know by now that "normal" doesn't necessarily apply!). He loves to laugh, always with a joke at the ready and a kind or sarcastic word as the occasion permits, so feel free to go for humor if you like. Or sci-fi, fantasy, modern warrior, whatever you like. He's got a great group of supporters who are called "JJ's Fight Club":

jjfightclub
You've got one week (until Saturday, May 3) two weeks (until Saturday, May 10) to submit your entry, and normal contest rules apply.

I'll select a winner, who will receive their choice of a free custom color illustration by me; a custom item to go in any HM3 slot; or their likeness to join JJ's in the Winners set. I'll also post some or all of the entries to JJ's Facebook wall by way of encouragement, I think he'll get a kick out of them.

Thanks in advance for your positive energy, your creativity, and for the happiness seeing all of your entries will hopefully bring JJ and his family!