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Steam powered robot, via suggestion from Mark Edwards on the HeroMachine Facebook group.
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Posted in Sketch of the Day
If you haven't seen it yet, Entertainment Weekly features a still of Ryan Reynolds (?!) in the Green Lantern costume from the upcoming movie:
Can't say I'm a huge fan of the glowing muscle ligature in the design, but as always you have to see it in action first. And that looks more like a Photoshopped head on a CGI body rather than an actual photograph, but what do I know -- not only did I not know Ryan Reynolds had been cast, I didn't even know there was a movie coming up. Ignorance is bliss, I reckon.
Thoughts?
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Posted in Movies and TV
While rifling through old directories on the hard drive for a separate UGO request, I realized I have an awful lot of old drawings in Flash that could be used in HeroMachine 3. So I put together a "Companions-Humanoids" set for you:
I would imagine some of these can have other items applied to them for further customization, or you can just leave them as-is. For instance, with just a little positioning and scaling and layering you could do this "Charlie's Angels" remix:
Some of these are prizes from back when you got a custom illustration; if one is yours and you don't want it in HM3, just let me know.
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Posted in HeroMachine 3
On a dare, Hammerknight can show you how to make your own toilet in HeroMachine 3:
I can't decide what's more alarming, that someone drew a toilet or that someone dared someone to do it. Speaking of which, have you ever noticed how un-toilet-friendly most superhero gear is? No zippers, layers of armor, spandex out the wazoo, and an almost sinister lack of access to said wazoo in the first place.
Anyway, the speculation last week over just how he got the book pages in his grimoire was really entertaining, so we're introducing a new feature this week -- "Guess How!"
Take a look at this Hammerknight effort and see if you can guess how it was done, either just explaining what you think the tricks are, or trying to replicate it yourself (link to show your work!):
I'll post the answer key after folks've had a chance to give it a try. Thanks HK, should be fun!
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Posted in Recipes, Tips & Tricks
(From "Prize Comics" number 1, 1940.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
Someone on the "Star Wars: The Old Republic" forums posted the following:
Maybe I'm just going through a stage of Male-PMS, but I feel like being really blunt here. The people who post screenshots of there person made with HeroMachine and call it their artwork, well, there are several things wrong with this:
1.) HeroMachine is not your program, your just using a public device. You cannot call it your art if you didn't make it. So you spent hours slaving over the hardest efforts to click a button many times to get a poor rendition of something that vaguely resembles a person with a generic stance that never changes.
2.) It's beyond unoriginal. I've seen it a lot around here, and it just irks me! It is so much more beneficial to ask someone to draw it for you. It benefits you in that you have a genuine piece of artwork that somebody actually put effort into. It also benefits them in that it helps them with the experience. Computers don't learn to draw from reference sheets and imagination, they get it from a billionaire who programs it into them.
I think it's an interesting question -- are images created in HeroMachine art? Why or why not?
(Image © Fiona Katauskas.)
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Posted in Meta, Open threads
Jeff's Super Hero Fashion Tip #32: If you don't want to look like road kill, don't wear helmets that make your head look like a steering wheel and a uniform with tire tread marks on it.
Example:
A lesser writer would say something like "If only his uniform were a mirage, ha ha!" but I would not stoop so low. But I would never take such a cheap joke, I prefer to keep it high-brow.
This guy looks like he should opening at the Mirage in Vegas, ha ha!
That's me, Jeff Hebert, Classy Humorist.
(Image and character ©Marvel Comics.)
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Posted in Bad Super Costumes
Via BleedingCool, Marvel has released a photo from the upcoming Thor movie featuring the God of Thunder, his father Odin, and his evil brother Loki:
What do you think?
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Posted in Movies and TV
(From "National Comics" number 2, 1940.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
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