Monthly Archives: June 2011

Now THAT’s a super-hero story premise!

Posted on June 14, 2011 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

(From "Big 3" number 1, 1940.)

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Character Contest 66: Cyborg

Posted on June 13, 2011 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

Your challenge this week is to design the coolest looking Cyborg character you can. Note that I'll be looking for entries that not only pass the "Does it look awesome" test, but that are actually combinations of organic and technological parts to make up the whole. Pure robots or pure androids, in other words, wouldn't really qualify.

Otherwise the rules are the same:

Use only a HeroMachine applet (no PhotoShopping except for basic cropping) to create a PNG or JPG of your entry, named as [your name]-[character name].[file extension]. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his "Bayou Belle" character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.
Post the image to a publicly accessible website (ImageShack, PhotoBucket, the UGO Forums, etc.).
Enter the name of your entry and a link directly to the image in a comment to this post. The image cannot have been used in any previous HeroMachine character design contest.
The link to your image should 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.
I'll choose a winner next Monday, 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 (you pick the subject and I draw it up however I like).

No limit on entries this week, so give it your best shot!

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Posted in Challenges, Character Design Challenges

SOD.242 – Brainiac

Posted on June 13, 2011 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

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Posted in Sketch of the Day

Caption Contest 100 Winners!

Posted on June 13, 2011 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

We got some great submissions for the centennial edition of the Caption Contest, so a hearty THANK YOU to everyone who entered! I got some good laughs out of them, starting the week out on a perfect note.

With great pleasure, therefore, I present your Finalists, the ones I thought were the funniest or cleverest:

Joel: “Oh wait, it’s not? Sorry, could someone please tell me how I can get to Tokyo, sorry.”
nakiato: This is the last time i travel though Arizona without my birth certificate !
ajw: Extinct my ass!
Mr.Chris: “Seriously. I just ate a blowpop, what color is my tongue?”
HairWhip: “I’m the Hunchback of NotreDIE!!!!!!!!!!”
Ian Thomas Healy: “I asked my doctor about Celebrex, and look at me now!”
X-stacy: You can’t shoot me! I’m endangered!
Malfar: Everybody stand still, I dropped a lens!
Hunter-Hunted: “I put the ‘DIe’ in ‘DInosaur’!”
Hunter-Hunted: “Opposable thumbs, Baby! Now how do you like that??”
Patriot_Missile: Fin! Fang! BOOOOM!!
Knighthawk: I’m a Tyrannosaurs Rex, I CAN’T put my hands on top of my head!
frankie: “Vait! Don’t shoot. It’s me, Hitler.”
JWTx: Say hello to my little arms!

Those are all strong contenders, but like Highlander there can be only one. And so without chopping off anyone's head with a samurai sword, I hereby choose as your overall winner ... Knighthawk!

As the centennial winner, Knighthawk will receive a custom black and white character sketch of one of their creations. Congratulations!

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Posted in Caption Challenges, Challenge Favorites, Challenges

Great moments in horrible pickup lines

Posted on June 13, 2011 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

(From "Mystery Comics" number 4, 1944.)

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Posted in Daily Random Panel

Hence the name “Flame Gun”

Posted on June 12, 2011 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

(From "Big 3" number 1, 1940.)

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SOD.241 – Saturn Girl

Posted on June 11, 2011 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

One of Saturn Girl's several costume changes.

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Posted in Sketch of the Day

Power User Profile: Spidercow2010

Posted on June 11, 2011 by AFDStudios | Comments Off

Spidercow2010 has won Character Design Contests 31 (Weapon), 45 (Kirby), and 48 (Circus), and Caption Contest 71, which is a darn impressive resume. Here's a little more info about the homo sapiens behind the arachnobovine.

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