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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Certainly a tour of the Batcave can be arranged Miss Lane!
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
Poll Position: Sexist Garb Edition!
This weeks Poll Position asks you which of these SuperHeroine costumes shows in your opinion the worst of comics sexist attitude to our female heroes!
( Images after the jump )
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Posted in Versus
META: Export issues?
I've had half a dozen reports in the last few days of not being able to export images, has anyone here seen that? It works fine when I test it but these folks are telling me they get the popup window, only they never get the image.
Thanks for any feedback you can provide.
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Posted in Bug Reports & Fixes, HeroMachine 3
Character Design Contest ♯38- It’s A Kind Of Magic
For this weeks challenge, I want you to create something magical, some form of witch, wizard or warlock, sage, sorcerer or spell-caster, mage or magician. You can create a modern Merlin or a fantasy fire-mage. My only stipulation is that they should be pictured performing some form of magic, be it casting a spell, riding a flying broom or turning a prince into a toad.
Please make sure you have read the rules before entering. As usual, no limit on entries, so 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.
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Posted in Character Design Challenges
What Were They Thinking- Amalgam Comics
Now, I will get this out of the way straight away. I'm not saying that the Amalgam crossover between DC and Marvel was a bad idea. I'm saying it was a badly executed idea. The concept was sound. Mix together some of our best loved and most popular heroes in a new universe for a couple of special limited series, great thinking, fine with that. But then you have to go and ruin it by making bad choices for amalgamations or bad costume choices for those that you've done well. The best illustration of this is to look at each level individually.
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Posted in Bad Super Costumes, Super-Hero Stuff, What Were They Thinking
Character Design Contest ♯36 Winner (Reviving The Brand)
And the winner of this weeks poll is NHA247 for his re-imagining of Cobra. Congratulations NHA and well done to everyone who entered, there were some excellent designs in this contest.
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Posted in Challenge Favorites
Character Design Contest ♯37 Poll (Opposites Attract)
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Character Of The Week- 24th August
This week we're going to look at a classic 'machiner doing an interpretation of one of another classic 'machiner's characters. So, for your viewing pleasure here is AMS's take on Atomic Punk's eponymous signature character.
Now, this has got everything you'd expect from an AMS creation. 3/4 position pose (with clothes masked to fit), awesome shading, custom items (see right foot for details), cool face.
However, what really makes this one stand out for me is the way the costume is put together. The colour scheme is a good place to start here. Three colours, the usual and best number for a costume of this sort, with two colours (the yellow and black) being the dominant, whilst the third (white) is used sparingly, to give a distinction between large areas of the two dominant colours. The jacket sleeves are a good example of this, the white giving a border between the mainly yellow jacket and the black gloves.
We also see some very nice design features that really sell the costume design, the biggest and most obvious of which is the checkered leg with the belted knee (which might be my favourite part of the design). But we also have the neckwear jumper neck along the bottom of the jacket, the chain and the stripes on the jacket which all work together to really sell the design. I also like the fact that the zip on the jacket is also checkered, it gives a nice bit of continuity from the jacket to the trousers. It may be subtle but it just adds that little bit extra.
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Posted in Character of the Week, Uncategorized
