Category Archives: Character Design Challenges

Again with the great entries? It was really hard to whittle this down to a final four, but here we go!

Honourable mentions this week go to...

Forgiven Monster. Love the pose and wing armor, and...

HerrD Kudos for going the non-humanoid route.

This week's Runner Up is...

Christi S. The pose, as always it remarkable and the colouring job is beautiful.

And this week's winner is...

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Man oh man! You all showed up this week with guns a blaring! So many great entries! So much so that I cannot pick an honourable mention. Scott Weyers, NerdAndProud. AMS...heck...everybody's entries are worthy of mention. Well done all!!!

Ties for Runner Up this week are Kellkin, who nailed the whole Alien vibe...

...and Thudersong who gave us an elegant Invidia. From the waist up this is remarkable. Great job!

And the win this week goes to...

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Let’s kick off the New Year with Volume 3 of team building.

The premise of this contest is that over the next number of weeks we will build a team of superheroes and a team of villains. Each week I will supply you with a role, name, or list of powers of one of the team members and you will use HM3 to create the character.

The winner each week will win a version of their character created on HM by yours truly.

This week we start off with the hero team alpha. Known only as THE ONE he is gifted with the power of flight, superhuman strength, and is a master of telekinesis.

His background is a mystery, as is his planet of origin.

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. 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 form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack, 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;
• No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
• Please name your filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his “Bayou Belle” character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.

Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).

This contest will close at 6pm Eastern on Monday, January 6th..

This week's winner is ForgivenMonster for this bada$$, and well armed version of Jolly Old Saint Nick.

Thanks to all who entered.

Your challenge for the next two weeks is to re-imagine jolly old St. Nick using HM3

Maybe he is a ripped superhero, a steampunk character, or a bad@$$ robot. Just use your imagination and have some fun

There is no prize for this contest. That is your yuletide gift to me.

Please follow the instructions below regarding the naming of entries.

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. 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 form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack, 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;
• No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
• Please name your filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his “Bayou Belle” character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.

Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).

This contest will close at 5pm Eastern on Sunday, December 29^th..

A lot of great entries this week. So much so that I cannot decide on Honourable Mentions or a Runner Up. I can. however,able to choose a winner. So this week's winner is..

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