Author Archives: JR19759

Character Of The Week: Stulte- Hubrect And Ima

The last two weeks have been very good for what I like to call the "second wave" of heromachine creators, especially those coming back off hiatus. Last week saw the return of Jeimuzu, Linea24 and the subject of this week's COTW, Stulte. Stulte is one of those creators who no-one could ever imitate, his style is so unique, a wonderful mixture of steampunk, genuine Victoriana and fantasy that is blended so seamlessly by fantastic costumes, character design and shading. Just look at the ancillaries and accessories on this picture to see how much thought and attention to detail goes into these pictures. Magnificent.

Gallery- Stulte's Stuff

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Character Design Contest ♯138- Am I Evil?

It's been a while since we've had a villains exclusive contest. Therefore, you may only enter this contest if you have aspirations towards world domination, an unquenchable thirst for revenge or a insatiable desire for destruction, mayhem and chaos. And your picture must show someone or something that isn't very nice either. Other than that, there are no other rules (apart from the obvious keep it PG and no copyright characters). But other than that, go wild.

As per usual, no limits on 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.

Character Design Contest ♯137 (It’s All Greek To Me) Poll

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Character Design Contest ♯136 (Winging It) Winner

Much better turn out this week than last week. Hopefully this isn't going to be come a recurring thing where we have a good week then a bad week then another good week and so on and so forth. Anyway, the winner. Now, our winner this week obviously has just bought themselves a new pair of shoes, because they quite literally walked this poll, taking 45% of the vote (also, very interestingly, this poll went in alphabetical order, which amuses me). So please join me in congratulating Anarchangel, whose pic The Raptor soared higher than all others this week.

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Characters Of The Week: Jeimuzu- Various

And it's back to business as usual for COTW. After taking a hiatus for a couple of months, Jeimuzu has finally decided to show up again and, by the looks of it, being away has only made him better. Though hopefully that's not a trend.

Mech Suit: Blue Boy

Mech Suit: Emerald Destiny

Golden Heart

Pisces Amethyst

Leo Peridot

Ahuizotl

Black Sheep

Gallery: Jeimuzu's World

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Character Design Contest ♯137- It’s All Greek To Me

♯Cliche title

Anyway. What I want you guys to do this week is create an image based on Ancient Greece. It can be based around historical events, such as Thermopylae or the ancient Olympics (just no nudity please, let's keep this PG), historical figures, such as Socrates or Alexander The Great (yes he was Macedonian, but he counts) or you can do Greek Mythology, classical heroes, the pantheon or the numerous creatures and monsters of Ancient Greece. Now, I love Greek history, so alongside the usual creativity criteria that I judge by, I will be looking at historical accuracy as well. So don't make the writer of the Iliad yellow skinned whatever you do.

As per usual, no limits on 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.

Character Design Contest ♯136 (Winging It) Poll

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Character Design Contest ♯135 (Modern Gods) Winner

Ok, so we're back to having less than 100 vote turn outs are we? Great (sarcasm). But one good thing is that this weeks poll was insanely tight. I mean, second place was 3 votes off first, with third being only one point behind second and fifth only being sixteen votes behind first. So no runaway winner this week (for most of the week it was practically a three way tie for the win, which would have been quite something). But the person who did eventually come out on top was DiCicatriz for his interpretation of Xochipilli from Aztec mythology. Congrats DiCi and well done to everyone who entered.

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Character Of The Week: Vampyrist- The Orion

You know, I say time and time again that I can never tell exactly how much work Vampyrist puts into his shading because it all just looks so natural and seamless. Well this one is much the same, mostly helped by the fact that a huge chunk of the shading here is so stunning you aren't paying much attention to the rest. Vampyrist is a master of glow effects and in terms of energy effects I'd say he's probably the best there is. Just look at the fore-arms here and tell me I'm wrong. And there's excellent use of items, male-alternate arms used to create a rougher skin texture really adds to the character. So, yeah, pretty impressed by this one.

Gallery: Vampyrist's Corner

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Character Design Contest ♯136- Winging It

♯Puns

Anyway, basically the idea here is you create a character that has wings. It's that simple. Doesn't have to be a humanoid character mind you, but it has to have wings. (Quick tip, there's a pegasus in the companions section that has some really nice wings, so take a look at what masking you can do with them if you feel so inclined as to not use any of the backplane wings). Oh and the wings don't have to be your standard angel configuration either (from the shoulder blades).

Have fun, and if you get stuck, just wing it...

As per usual, no limits on 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.