Well with the 2016 Spring anime season about halfway over I figured now would be a good time to tell you my top five anime from this season. I will only be including Anime that began this season and not ones that just have new seasons out now. So without further delay let us begin.
Hey guys, JR here and I’m gonna try something that hasn’t been done in a while. For those of you who aren’t aware, the Friday Night Fights is a character design contest style tournament that takes place each Friday (hence the name). Jeff and Kaldath have both done a few contests but we haven’t had one in 2 years due to a bad turn out with the last one. But for a pessimist I’m pretty optimistic (why do you think I’m posting this on Friday 13th) and I think we can actually get enough people to make the idea work again.
So, what actually happens. Well, I need at least 8 people as a bare minimum to make this work and 16 as a maximum. There will be 4 rounds (provided we get more than the minimum 8 people, otherwise there will only be 3 rounds) each with a different theme. Each entrant needs to design a character based on each theme and submit them all before the FNF starts. The first round will be a qualification round if we don’t get 16 entrants, where the creators of the top 8 images will advance to the next round, where they will be randomly placed into pairs and the tournament starts, so one creator facing off against another in a head to head contest and the winner advancing to the next round until we have an overall winner for the whole thing. I’ll be bringing back polls for this contest, so each round will be voted for by you guys, so there’s no judges deciding who goes through or who wins each round. Everything clear so far? If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments.
Now the important stuff. Rules and entry requirements:
And with that, the categories:
Week 1- Modern (Normal people)
Week 2- Fantasy (Paladins, Mages, Dwarves, Elves, Trolls, Orcs etc.)
Week 3- Sci-Fi (Aliens, Spacemen, Cosmic Beings etc.)
Week 4- Superheroes/ Supervillains
And with that, JR out.
Posted in Challenges, Friday Night Fights
Ok guys for this weeks CDC I want you to create a character/ image using something from one or more of the items from the Companions item slot. You can do what ever you like, provided you don’t just stick a companion in front of a back ground and call it good, be a bit creative. You can use the companion as the base for a pose, mask it for parts (the wings of the Pegasus for example, or the feet or tail from one of the dinos) or something along those lines.
As per usual, no limits on the number of entries and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). Please read the contest rules before entering, have fun and good luck.
Rules for posts, contests, and challenges that I am hosting: 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. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warnings. Only post characters that you have either created for this contest specifically or you know for certain have never been entered to 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.
Posted in Challenges, Character Design Challenges
Honourable Mentions: Xinmodic- Underground Beast & Superfly30- Reaver
Winner: djuby- Bladewalker
Posted in Challenge Favorites
On May 7th, 1941, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra recorded “Chattanooga Choo Choo.”
Your Pop Quiz challenge is to design a train engine. The only stipulation is that you do not use any of the ready made train images found on HeroMachine.
Other than that, let your imagination guide you. Maybe it’s an engine that would have driven Cleopatra and Mark Anthony through Ancient Alexandria, or a futuristic ultra high speed engine.
You only get one entry so be creative, and above all else, have fun!
All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack, PhotoBucket, or whatever);
This contest will close at 6pm Eastern on Sunday, May 8th .
Posted in Challenges, Pop Quiz
Here is the second post in the new “Submission Box” feature of the blog. Once again it is a Tutorial from Suleman. I hope you enjoy ………
Posted in Suggestions & Ideas, Tips & Tricks
Greetings Fellow Machiner,
I am starting off a new feature for the blog called Submission Box. If you have something you’d like to share with the community be it a tutorial, a heromachine “recipe” A cool youtube video you found, a great article you found on the web you can email me and submit it for the submission box. I will take a look and if I approve I will post it on the blog. Submissions will be posted as I have time you look at them, so some days you will have 5 or 6 Submission box posts and some days you will not have any. …
Well lets get started with our first Submission box, which is a tutorial from community member Suleman which you will find after the jump……..
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Posted in Digital Illustration Lessons, Recipes, Suggestions & Ideas
Ok guys, your challenge this week is to create something inhuman, so in essence a monster of some kind that is obviously not human. It can be humanoid, but can’t pass it’s self as human (so no vampires, zombies or werewolves), or it can be non-humanoid.
As per usual, no limits on the number of entries and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). Please read the contest rules before entering, have fun and good luck.
Rules for posts, contests, and challenges that I am hosting: 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. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warnings. Only post characters that you have either created for this contest specifically or you know for certain have never been entered to 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.
Posted in Challenges, Character Design Challenges
I know I don’t usually say anything in these anymore, but I have to acknowledge the quality of the entries for this weeks contest. There were at least 5 that could have won the contest and a couple more that could have been honourable mentions. However, there can only be one winner. So here are the four others that could have won (to save space I’ll put links to their entries in each persons name).
Honourable Mentions: Brons, Superfly30, Candruth, djuby
Winner: Cliff- Puck
Posted in Challenge Favorites
I couple years ago the Fine Brother which are on youtube did a video Youtuber’s react to Babymetal. That video is how I discovered Baymetal and began my fandom of the group. Well Recently the Fine Brothers have Babymetal in their studio and had them react to that video, the result is this:
Posted in Things I Like
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
