Character Contest 54: Bounty Hunter

Your character design challenge for this week is to create the coolest looking, most interesting character using HeroMachine 3 that fits the concept of a "bounty hunter". The person I judge as submitting the best entry will win his or her choice of a) any item or b) any portrait to be included in HeroMachine 3.

  • All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like ImageShack, PhotoBucket, the UGO Forums, whatever);
  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • The image cannot have been used in any previous HeroMachine character design contest
  • Please name your files as [your name]-[character name].[file extension]. 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). If you see "preview" or "rotate" somewhere in the link you're probably doing it wrong.
  • All entries must be in by next Monday, when I'll choose a winner, who will receive his or her choice of any item or a portrait to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 program, or a "Sketch of the Week" style black and white illustration.

No limit on entries this week, so knock yourselves out. Just make them good!

Character Contest 53 Winner!

Having slowly dug out of the big snow storm that hit Durango on Move Day, and having stolen my wife's laptop and USB cellular internet doohickey pending the delayed installation of the permanent Internet hardware, I am happy to finally present the best of the entries for Character Contest 53! I'll list all the Finalists in alphabetical order, before announcing which of them is the overall winner.

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RP: How’d you know it was me?!

(From "Keen Detective Funnies" number 21, 1940.)

RP: The Exciting Adventures of Captain Nice Guy

(From "Keen Detective Funnies" number 21, 1940.)

RP: Unfortunate side-effects of being the Parasite

(From "Keen Detective Funnies" number 21, 1940.)

RP: Why you never have Taco Bell prior to surgery

(From "The Beyond" number 2, 1951.)

RP: Worst. Coast Guard Commander. Ever.

(From "Keen Detective Funnies" number 21, 1940.)

META: Moving

I am moving yet again, so posting will be spotty till Saturday at the earliest. Sorry folks.

Hope you're having a good holiday season though!

RP: I’ll take “Things That Sound Dirty” for $1000, Alex.

(From "Four Favorites" number 14.)

Character Contest 53: Bad guy

Granted, it's called the "Hero" machine, but let's be honest -- the Flash programming environment is fairly value-neutral. Which means it's time for you to unleash your inner bad-guy!

That's right, your character design challenge for this week is to create the baddest of the bad-asses, the scummiest of the villainous scum, the evilest of the evil overlords! The person who submits the coolest looking, most awesome, absolutely dead-on killer criminal character will win his or her choice of a) any item or b) any portrait to be included in HeroMachine 3.

  • All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like ImageShack, PhotoBucket, the UGO Forums, whatever);
  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • The image cannot have been used in any previous HeroMachine character design contest -- we had an "Angels and Demons" contest and a "D&D Character" contest a while back, for instance, and I don't want repeats of stuff you already did for those;
  • Please name your files as [your name]-[character name].[file extension]. 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). If you see "preview" or "rotate" somewhere in the link you're probably doing it wrong.
  • All entries must be in by next Monday, when I'll choose a winner, who will receive his or her choice of any item or a portrait to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 program, or a "Sketch of the Week" style black and white illustration.

No limit on entries this week, so knock yourselves out. Just make them good!