Category Archives: Challenge Favorites

The winning entries for all HeroMachine contests.

Character Design Contest ♯27- Winner

Well done to Mad Jack for winning the covers contest with 'Days of Annihilation 3'. Everyone did excellent work.

MadJack-DaysOfAnnihilation

Character Design Contest♯24 Winner

Ok, so this weeks poll ended in a draw. However, being as it's my contest and I don't really like draws, I get the deciding vote. Therefore, this week's winner is Lime for Quyren

lime-quyren

The poll for this weeks contest will be up later today.

 

Fight Night Closed

Fight Night is closed, due to not having enough entries.

Fight Night #1

It looks as if there has only been one person to enter fighters. This means until there are more people to enter fighter I can not post fights. If you are still designing fighters and are still wanting to enter the Fight Club let me know. If there are no more entries by next Friday I will close Fight Club.

Fight Night “Fighter Classes”

For right now there will be three fight groups: Real World, Comic Book, and Fantasy/RPG. Each group will have it's own set of fighter classes.

Real World: Boxing, Martial Art, Soldier, and Wrestling

Comic Book: Mega-Human, Winged Warrior, Exo-Suit,  Mutant, and Demi-God

Fantasy/RPG: Magic User, Archer/Ranger, Tank, Gladiator, Elementalist, Knight, and Necromancer

Start making your fighters, post them here with their name, weight class, and fight class. You can add more information if you want to. Remember you can only have six characters, a male and a female in each weight class. Real World group is the only group that the fighter has to be human. As long as I have at least two fighters in the same weight and fight class the fights will begin next week. Have fun.

Fight Night “Pre Show”

I am starting a fight club on Friday nights. You can design up to six characters(for right now) to join the club. Three weight classes, Light, Medium, and Heavy. Light weight is under 300lbs. for males and under 200lbs. for females. Medium weight is 300lbs. to 600lbs.  for males and 200lbs. to 500lbs. for females. Heavy weight will be 601lbs. to 1000lbs. for males and 501lbs. to 900lbs. for females. You are allowed a male and female character for each weight class. You do not have to enter all six characters if you don't want to. I am taking suggestion for the type of fight classes, Martial Arts with and without weapons would be two of the classes, and Bare Knuckles would be another class. Let me know what other classes you would like to see. Once we decide on the fight classes, you will choose which class you want your fighter to be in. The way the fights will go, after all the characters have been collected I will pick two from each weight class to fight each other, the fight classes will very each week. I will post a poll with the fight matches set up for you to vote on. You will not be voting on the characters design you will be voting on which character you think could kick the other one's butt in a fight. The fights will be random each each. The fights are just for fun, no big winner at the end. The design of your character does count, because you want your character to look like they could really kick butt. I will post the fight classes next Friday and the fights will begin the Friday(April 26) after that. So you have two weeks to work on your characters. After the fight classes are posted you can start posting your character for everyone to see. You will have until April 25 to post your characters, no characters after that date will be allowed to fight. At one point in time we may open up the club for new fighters to join. Anyone can enter characters for the fights, because they will be voted on in a poll. I don't know if I will enter fighters or not at this time. I think this will be a fun event. I hope to have a lot of people joining the club. I am looking forward to hearing what you have to say about the fights.

Character Design Challenge 105 Results

Many thanks to everyone who took up the "Randomizer" Challenge last week. Here are some of my personal favorites:

These are all great. RobM's "All Signs Point to Annihilation" makes me chuckle every time I look at it. Jack Zelger's "sliced in half chopper" is also really smart, and not an effect I've seen before. I think djuby's "robot fish" is a brilliant stylistic illustration that achieves a very distinctive (and cool!) look.

But they're all good!

Still, I promise to pick just one each week as my personal favorite. And this week, hard as it is, I am going with Headlessgeneral's "Bomb Beast". I think it's not only a nice illustration but something that I could totally see in the pages of "Invincible".

Thanks again to everyone who entered. There's no contest this week as I'm technically on vacation, but don't let that stop you from creating your own just for fun.

Have a good week!

Pop Quiz 36 Results

We had a lot of great entries for the last Pop Quiz, which I appreciated because I was feeling pretty low today. Hopefully these will give you a pick-me-up, too!

It's hard to pick just one of these stellar illustrations, a lot of them really caught my eye. Keith Kanin, Atomic Punk, Keric, Krivalis, Dionne Jinn, Vampyrist, and Worf all gave me a run for the money, where "money" represents no actual money. Ultimately I am going to go for Keric's cycle:

The main reason is the very clever use of the flames as wheel guards. Plus the overall lines are cool, for a vehicle that looks genuinely fun to ride.

Great job, everyone!

Caption Challenge 133 Results

Many thanks to all who took up the last Caption Challenge, wherein you had to come up with the best replacement dialog for this blank comics panel (edited to add, the original comes from The Gutters!):

In no particular order, my personal favorite entries were:

  • Skybandit: These bagpipes are out of tune!
  • NHA247: “Soft Kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur! Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr!”
  • EldritchSandwich: “My god…this cat ISN’T EVEN PLUGGED IN!”
  • Onikagenoken: ‘Yes, I’m seeing something. Your grandmother wants to speak to you from the other side. She says…meow.”
  • Jack: “I CAN’T SEE WHAT I’M TYPING!”
  • DiCicatriz: Foggy, I don’t get this new ‘Angry Cats’ app. How do you even play?
  • frozen_scarecrow: The internet really is full of cats!

Having just come off an epic Reddit session, I'm going with Frozen_Scarecrow as my overall favorite entry. Because the Internet really IS full of cats.

Thanks to all who entered!

Mascot Pop Quiz Results

We only had ten entries in the "College Sports Mascot" Pop Quiz this week, but they were a lot of fun. So score one for quality over quantity! Without further ado, here they are.

As I said, those are all a lot of fun. But my personal favorite is Rick's, which simultaneously looks like an actual mascot costume and scares me a little bit. As a good mascot should!

Thanks to everyone who stuck around and gave this odd one a whirl.