Author Archives: ams

CDC #528 – Happy Halloween!

Halloween is around the corner!  The challenge this week is to create a traditional Halloween themed monster.  Vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein, mummies, ghouls and etc are all acceptable concepts to choose from.

Keep it creative in putting it in a modern spin, love child of 2 themes, comedic or something totally new!  No need for highlights and shading if that is not in your wheel house.  Judging will be on strong, creative concepts and ideas!

Enter as often as you like.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges:

  • Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters, no characters based on
    RPG’s or other games.
    • No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted. The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way.
    • Please keep all submissions PG13: full or partial nudity is prohibited.
    • I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning.
    • Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered
    in 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. All entries must be in JPG or PNG (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like
    http://www.heromachine.com/forum, Image Shack, Deviant Art or whatever) Do not use Photobucket<.
    • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name.
    • Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).

This challenge will close at 6 pm on Saturday, October 29th.

I will be judging this contest and the winner chosen by me (AMS).  Winning entry will be awarded a character concept reinterpreted by me that is/was created and chosen by the winning artist.

 

Happy Halloween!

WINNER announcement for CDC #527….

After adding up the scores from the votes, the winner is....

WORF!!!

Scores were Worf with 31 pts, ams with 30 pts, Nerdandproud with 13 pts and Ian Healy with 6pts.

Congrats!!! Next, as the rules were written by Djuby...

• The winner each week will receive my version of their entry rendered using HeroMachine 3.  (*As David is on the mend, I can fulfill the prize if he is unable)

• The winner each week will choose the topic of the next challenge, and cannot enter the challenge.  Simply email me your
challenge topic to dwjuby@cogeco.ca by 12:30 pm on Sunday.

Worf,  you are up to producing the next challenge topic.

VOTING begins!!! Challenge #527 – A new hope!

Hey gang!

As per David (djuby), the voting for the Wolverine-pose can now begin.

Please follow the following instructions...

• Challenges will start weekly on Sunday at 1pm Eastern
• Challenges will close on Saturday of the same week at 6pm
• After the challenge closes members will vote for a top 3.
• You must assign first, second and third place
• If you vote an entry as First it will receive ten points; a second place finish gets 7 points; third place gets three
points.
• The winner each week will receive my version of their entry rendered using HeroMachine 3
• You cannot vote for your own entry
• Voting must be completed by 11am Sunday.
• The winner each week will choose the topic of the next challenge, and cannot enter the challenge .Simply email me your
challenge topic to dwjuby@cogeco.ca by 12:30 pm on Sunday.
• Perhaps most importantly, this means that I can enter CDCs again

 

Good luck all entries!

Pics from May 12th…

Here are character concepts from May 12th that were posted to the forums.

RUBBER BULLETTE by TheMightyMo

http://www.heromachine.com/forums/topic/mightys-heroes/#post-167612

HARPY (Leigh Walker) by JR19759

http://www.heromachine.com/forums/topic/jrs-characters/page/131/

Go check'em out!

Costume Concepts: Stargirl

Here are some costume concept illustrations for the upcoming Stargirl TV show.

What do you think?

Recommend checking out the rest of these 2 artists illustrations.

https://www.instagram.com/illustratedbygina/

https://www.instagram.com/alanvillanueva_art/

Frankenstein your items….

Hey 'machiners!

Did you know you have the means to create your own items out of others?

There is a whole bunch of possibilities when using the masking tool and "frankenstein" them together.  Here is an example....

I took 2 Croc heads from HEADS/ANIMAL section and did this....

Took a 3/4 turn item and made it head on.  Pretty cool, eh?

Here is how I did it...

There are treasures to be found in all item categories.  Happy hunting!

***For a more in depth step by step post, please visit this page created by SULEMAN.

http://www.heromachine.com/2016/05/06/submission-box-suleman-tutorial-frankensteining/

Stay Safe and Cheers!

Open Critique Day #40….

Hey gang!  Going scooters at home yet?

Let's get at it.......!

How this goes:  You post a work of yours, finished or WIP, and then I (ams) will give you suggestions or tips on your work.  Just make sure that you only post pictures that are your own design and not any that are copyrighted or based off of copyrighted characters.

Cheers!

OPEN CRITIQUE DAY #39….

Ok, got my coffee...

Le's do this.....

How this goes:  You post a work of yours, finished or WIP, and then I (ams) will give you suggestions or tips on your work.  Just make sure that you only post pictures that are your own design and not any that are copyrighted or based off of copyrighted characters.

Cheers!

OPEN CRITIQUE DAY #38…

YO, crew!

Have some spare time today (and probably the next day and next day after that...), so let's throw down.

How this goes:  You post a work of yours, finished or WIP, and then I (ams) will give you suggestions or tips on your work.  Just make sure that you only post pictures that are your own design and not any that are copyrighted or based off of copyrighted characters.

Cheers!

Criss Cross, apple sauce…..

Hello and Happy Easter!

I had someone ask me how I did a crossed legged pose for one of my characters.

Fairly easy to accomplish...

Cheers!