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(From "Wow Comics" number 9, 1943.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
It's time once again for another Open Critique Day! My in-laws are in town so I might be slower than usual responding today, but hopefully some of our other insightful and frequent commenters can pick up the slack and chime in if I'm absent for a bit.
If you have a HeroMachine illustration or another piece of artwork you've done that you'd like some help with, post a link to it in comments along with your thoughts on it -- what you think is working, what you're struggling with, etc. I will post my critique of the piece, hopefully giving some tips on how to improve it.
Of course everyone is welcome to post their critiques as well, keeping in mind the following rules:
That's it! Hopefully we can get some good interaction going here and help everyone (me included!) learn a little bit today.
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(From "WOW Comics" number 9, 1943.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
I've just uploaded two Contest prize items to HeroMachine 3. First was Jenna's "next prize up on the replacement list" for winning Character Contest 46, which was a "long-ass wizard's beard" like we had in HM2:
And next was a "tapered tail" for PapaKrok's Character Contest 57 win, also a "next item up":
I think it's appropriate PapaKrok ended up with that one, because it turned into something that could be a big tentacle, evil flower frond, wicked tongue, wave form, or some other equally demented thing he would be likely to turn it into. So that's cool.
Be sure to thank both of them if you like the items, for giving up their prizes! And if you had something different in mind for the final shape of these two requests, let me know.
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Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, HeroMachine 3
As a "thank you" for extraordinary assistance troubleshooting bugs, I offered Panner the equivalent of a contest winning prize, and he chose "Stonehenge". I've just uploaded the following addition to Background-Standard for HeroMachine 3, now available:
Thanks, Panner, it was a great idea! If you want changes to it, let me know.
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Posted in Challenge Prizes, Challenges, HeroMachine 3, News & Updates
Our last foray into the world of the Lone Wolf didn't end all that well -- we got kilt. Kilt dead.
But never fear! If a life of geeky comic book nerdery has taught us anything, it's that no one has to stay dead forever. With that spirit, today I kick off Book 2 of the Lone Wolf, "Fire on the Water", courtesy of Project Aon! It's a fantastic site dedicated to preserving and sharing the legacy of "Choose Your Own Adventure" style books, and will be the source of our new foray.
For the sake of continuity, we'll say that when our little wee Kai Lord in training seemed to die, in fact he was snatched into an alternate dimension where Spider-Man has another new costume he actually lived to complete the quest to find the king and warn him of impending danger, whereupon he was given a new quest:
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Posted in Lone Wolf: Fire on the Water, RPG Corner
(From "Holyoke One Shots" number 3.)
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A few days ago, Photoshop images of Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern from the upcoming movie were released by the studio and upon viewing it I had to say OH MY GOD RYAN REYNOLDS' HUGE MODOK HEAD AAAAAAGGGGHH!!
After I recovered from the relatively appalling paste job, my second thought was OH MY GOD RYAN REYNOLDS TOES AAAAAAGGGGHH! Apparently I don't care for feet.
Buddy John really likes the whole concept, revealing a power ring that infuses the body itself, turning the bearer in effect into an energy construct. Thus you see the muscle striations and belly buttons and toes (ugh). But not the penis, because this isn't "Watchmen", people, grow up! Super heroes don't have genitals, we all know that. Or nipples. Because if you're not making babies, you don't need to nurse anything now do you, Mr. Anatomically Correct Person.
John also likes the way the green elements merge smokelike into the black areas rather than having the strict cloth costume or rubber boot crisp edges we've seen in other super hero movie offerings.
Personally, I'm "meh" on the whole thing. It's really hard to judge live-action costumes like this in a static studio shot, especially when it's a Photoshop hack job. You have to see it in motion and watch how it interacts with the environment before you know whether or not it "works". But judging just from these shots, I have some reservations.
I already mentioned how it's odd that some parts of the anatomy are in full evidence but others are not. That bugs me a little. I also don't understand why, if this is energy suffusing the body, some elements are clearly patterned objects (like over his thighs), but then merge into parts that look like a flayed body (the thigh treads go into the calves and the -- ugh again -- toes).
The deficiencies of the mask have been well and truly thrashed out elsewhere so I won't belabor it, but yeah, it sucks. Luckily from the trailer it looks like they're ditching it ASAP in the course of the story.
What do you all think of it?
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Posted in Bad Super Costumes
Martian Blue has a very cool thread going on the UGO boards where he's posting custom items he's created and then gives you the text string you need to load it up as-is into your existing illustrations. It's a fantastic idea and I'm really glad he sent me the links.
Here's a sample helmet he put together:
You can download the text version of the item for loading into HM3 here.
Check out and bookmark the thread, I'm sure it'll turn into a wonderful resource for cool new items.
Thanks, Martian Blue!
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Posted in HeroMachine 3
Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
Nerdmudgeon.com