HeroMachine Character Portrait Creator

Thanx! The self-portrait is actually what got me to start thinking of shading with the gradient backgrounds as able to be more nuanced than simply ‘ad lighting’ or ‘make 2d character 3d’, n I’ve been trying to do more with it since so I’m glad its showing through! ^_^

Ah, well thanx for both the edification and the compliment, Keric! N lol, I’m really not so squeamish anymore, I’ve just never taken the time to go back n re-watch it.

Its ‘an’, Herr D; silent consonants don’t count towards that particular grammatical rule. And yeah hahah… I myself took a look at my piece n was like; ‘there’s not enough sand in that hourglass for her to be in any kind of actual danger’. But I got lazy so left it.

Not sure about the copy/pasting text issue. I don’t have any trouble doing so. It could be because this site isn’t behind an SSL certificate and, depending on what browser/security you’re using, it doesn’t trust it to access your clipboard as a result? Maybe check the log on your browser and/or security and manually greenlight it for the future? Just hazarding a guess though. Could be way off.

Anywho, here are yall’s items! (with text in-image this time, because I finally learned fonts)

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Just as a refresher, I will be judging the entries by the same criteria/scoring system as the last time I did this:

1. Composition: The overall quality of the style/technique used in the piece. 2 points!

2. Element Composition: How well the items were used/fit in to the piece. 3 points!

3. Creativity: How well the items were MISUSED in the piece. 3 points!

4. Aesthetics: Which piece I think just has the better overall finished product. 1 point!

The shading on your last 3 works are excellent, especially on your self portrait.

Keep up the good work

Love the effect you got on Witch Queen

Welcome back BTW, I know I’m a bit late to that party, but better late than never right 😉

Bkstory:  C0, K2

Bkgd: ….C4.5, K3

ITEM1, SNAKETAT: C4,K5

ITEM2, SAND: C4, K4

ITEM3, FIRE: C4, K4

BELLS: C4, K3

WHISTLES: C4, K2

Items-story: C3.5, K4

Emotional: C3, K2.5

Bonus: C0.5, K0

Total: C by 2

Items: Musical chairs style was ambitious, and congratulations on doing so well with it. I almost wish I had a built-in bonus for that, but I doubt it will come up often. Fire as snake put in shadow was the right call, made it less awkward. I put it on par with the fire as a crown and two-toned ritual-affected fire. The sand as fire was more plasma wave with glowing embers, but fire, yes. And on par with the sand as not only sand but an interesting ensemble minus smoothness value. (Keric, if you had made that one ‘strip’ droop like cloth, you’d have fived that and gone up in Whistles. Now snake as sand on condensation residue, very believable, but that made the danger less real. Putting more sand above it would’ve also raised Emo val for you. Keric won that category with snake tat as a magical poison emanation AND the ritual cairn-altar-pieces. Double the misuses without a smoothness dock is pretty much an auto-five and a ‘sorry-I-can’t-give-more.’ It’s a ‘high-five.’ Heh, heh.

Bonus: CS–Aladdin and Jasmine were it. Two towers, one inside and one outside. Those items WERE obstacles for IJ:RotLA, but not so close to Indiana’s final gambit. Who’d’ve thought eyelids were so powerful?

Christie! Pick 3 and set a deadline!

Breakdown in next post.

BTW? Does anyone know why I can’t copy-paste pretyped text here? What’s so ‘dangerous’ about it? 403 danger . . . forbidden?

Characterizing this week, I’d say K did some original thinking and CS did loads and loads of polish on a (an?) homage.

Keric ‘formalized the existence’ of his backstory with a presented title.  Good story there. Christie’s background had depth in spades (see what I did there?) Had the stars been more diverse, or the walls had battle damage or something it might’ve fived. Keric’s background was a little flat, but the content was great. Floating land masses will do that.

Homages are nice but seem to produce a muted emotional effect in me. Keric’s piece had some ambiguity, so the emotional and items’ story category came out as a tie.

Bells and whistles were where CS really shone. K’s placement of two-toned fire was good, just ritually symmetrical enough that being identical was a problem. Otherwise it would’ve taken the category  with that difficult posing. What really hurt him in Whistles was that second left hand. Snakelike would’ve meant it was part of her affliction. Translucent would’ve been a twitch effect. It looked like an error. CS’s lighting and depth took that.

I’m having trouble posting–continued in another post block.

Thank you!