CDC #399 – King Arthur

This week you CDC Challenge is to re-imagine a character from the legend of King Arthur as a modern day hero or villain. Above is a version of the sorceress Morgan Le Fey I did ages ago.

You may enter up to three times.

This week’s winner will receive a HM3 rendering by yours truly of my version of their winning entry

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges: 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. Please keep all submissions PG13: full or partial nudity is prohibited. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered in 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.

All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack, Deviant Art or whatever);Do not use Photobucket.

  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
  • Please name your filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his “Bayou Belle” character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.

Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).

This contest will close at 9am Eastern on Sunday, February 3rd.

Caption Contest #133 Results

Ok guys, last week I asked you to come up with the best caption for this movie still:

And our top 5 are:

The Atomic Punk: Everyone's sequel-sense was tingling

A.Winters: I sense a great disturbance in the Force. Wait, wrong franchise…

Random-Fancy-Nerd-Taco-Thing: Introducing: The Paramore Cover Band!

James: Wait… so I’m not Tobey Maguire?

LoganGrayHyde: She couldn’t understand why the bridge set off her spider sense…but her two companions seemed nervous.

But, as was pointed out in another entry that very nearly made the final 5, there can only be one. And that one is....

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CDC #397 – Two’s Company…Prize for Supertfly30

This was both the most challenging and most fun I have had recreating an artist's work. Congrats again on the win!

Superfly30's original

My take

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CDC #397 – Two’s Company…Results

Wow folks! Really great work across the board this week!

This week's runner up is Maxman and Microwoman.

Great posing, great highlighting, great shading...classic AMS. Well done you!

And the win goes to...

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Caption Contest #133

Ok guys, the caption contests are back after their winter hibernation. This week I want you to come up with the best caption you can for this movie still:

Everyone can have a maximum of 3 entries, entries must be in by next Wednesday (Jan 23rd) and All Entries Must Be PG-13

CDC #396 – Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match – Prize for Cant Draw

The original F5...

My version...

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CDC #397 – Two’s Company…

Pictured above is D-Cup and Sir, a CDC entry I did eons ago

Your CDC challenge this week is to design an unlikely crime fighting duo. They may be submitted as separate entries, or as a single rendering if you prefer. Just have fun!

The winner will receive a HM3 rendering of their winning entry by yours truly.

Please follow the instructions below regarding the naming of entries.

You may enter up to three times.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges: 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. Please keep all submissions PG13: full or partial nudity is prohibited. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered in 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.

All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack, Deviant Art or whatever);Do not use Photobucket.

  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
  • Please name your filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his “Bayou Belle” character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.

Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).

This contest will close at noon Eastern on Monday, January 21st.

2018: A Retrospective

Well, everyone, I’ll admit I didn’t know what to write about. I haven’t done anything, haven’t seen anything (thanks, weather) lately. This was very close to just being pictures of and talking about my cat. But instead let’s talk about 2018 and what happened. Of course now I went from nothing to write about to lots to write about, but we’ll start here. So this is my year in review. Not really in any particular order, just the things that made an impact on me this past year.

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CDC #395 – Public Domain – It’s Magic – Prize for Ubiquitous Pixel

UP's version of Mr. Strange...

My version...

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CDC #395 – Public Domain – It’s Magic – Results

Runner Up this week is Kellkin for the Darkbringer; the effects are great and the modern take on the costume is really well done. Seriously man, this came very close to taking top spot.

But the win this week belongs to...

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