Maskless hands

Inspired by an AMS comment, I've just added the following items to HandRight-Standard:

triggerfingers

Basically the idea behind these is that you can use them to simulate holding an object without having to use masking, since you can only mask one thing to one other thing at a time. So for instance, you can use the first two to put a rifle in a character's hands with just layering -- all the parts that would be covered in the hand are just not there in the first place.

If this works and there are other hands you'd like to see get the same treatment, let me know.

Character Design Contest ♯56- Old School: Gadgeteer

This week I want you guys to create an awesome gadgeteer type hero or villain. I'm looking for tech suits, big guns, hologram computers, you name it. It can be golden age or modern, I'm not to fussy, just make it good.

As per usual, no limits on entries this week, 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.

META: Blog tweaks

I installed WordPress' "JetPack" plugin today, which among other things will give you some additional "share" options and a way for you to "like" a variety of content around the site. I'm not sure how that's going to play with the forums, so please let me know if you see any weirdness there. Or anywhere, really, because I'm all about the funkiness.

I'm also trying out their auto-publicize feature, which will put all posts on Facebook and Twitter. I'm hoping they come through with images intact, which HootSuite (the previous solution) did not do. We'll see.

Thanks for your support over the years, folks! If you're so inclined, I sure would appreciate your sharing the blog or the app(s) on your favored social media platform.

As your bonus for reading this far, here's a character sketch I did for our old Champions campaign back in 1997. Lucky you!

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Jazz Hands and the Flying Torsos, which is NOT the name of my band

I've just updated HandRight-Standard with the following dramatic hand poses:

morehands

In addition, BodyMale-Standard has the following headless, flying torso just in case you needed some bad-dream fodder. I was inspired to make this by the flying contest last week, sorry I couldn't get it out faster.

flyingtorso

Hammerknight's Recipes

I'm back with a few tips for you when you are making your characters. This is my first try using the wooden figures, I hope you like them.Flying pose 1 top view looking down

Character Design Contest ♯55 (Speedsters) Poll

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Character Design Contest ♯54 (Flying) Winner

The winner of this weeks CDC poll was none other than RobM for his Jet Dynamo Go. Congratulations Rob, if you wish to claim a prize I believe dblade is offering custom items to CDC winners.

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Announcement – FNF : Monsters

FNF Monster Logo

This is to let people know that I will be attempting to run Friday Night Fights again next month, with the them of Monsters. I will have more details next month, but wanted to judge interest levels .

Whiz Bang Poll #4 Delayed Because of Kimono

Instead of posting a poll I decided to create a Kimono as my item of the week. I will miss the excitement of the voting but I hope you won't mind so much. I'll get back to the polls the following week.

Ah, what the heck. Here is a little poll to help me focus on the next couple of polls. I chose a couple of sets that I personally wanted to focus on but I left it open for people to add to the voting.

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HM3: Stompin Time!

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The Ent foot and reptilian abomination foot from the week 3 poll have kicked their way into the Machine! You can find these items in the FootRight/Monster set. Did I mention that we put together a new set for monstrous/creature feet? Mostly old items at the moment but hopefully more will follow.