Category Archives: Challenge Prizes

I've wrapped up several outstanding contest prizes and have posted all but one to the live HeroMachine 3 app. First up, two of our winners -- DiCicatriz (Character Contest 30) and SuperFan1 (Friday Night Fights) -- decided to have portraits done of themselves, and they now live in Head-Winners:

Kyle decided to go with the classic Viking helmet in Headgear-Standard for his Character Contest 29 victory:

Finally, Hakoon has approved his British-flag guitar, but it's not actually available in ItemRight-Music yet, as I'm still working on the set. But this is what it looks like:

Thanks to those guys for picking great prizes, I hope everyone enjoys them. And if you've won a contest but I haven't drawn your prize yet, never fear, I am working on them!

Kaldath and I have finished his Friday Night Fights semi-final prize, a faerie dragonlet now live in Companions-Standard. Enjoy!

(Click to embiggen.)

Note that the eyes are blank so you can place any eye you like behind the figure for the proper orientation and effect.

Danny and I have finished his prize for winning Caption Contest 72, a Confederate cap:

It's live now in the HeroMachine 3 Headgear-Standard set.

Gero has approved his Exceptionally Large Ornate Key item, the prize for winning Caption Contest 65, and it is now live in HeroMachine 3 in the ItemRightBlunts set. I'll probably move it to Miscellaneous once I get around to that, but since it doesn't exist yet I figured this would be the best place for now. Enjoy!

Jake and I have finished his HM3 prize for winning Character Contest 26 (Golden Oldies), a kobold body in Companions-Standard so Jake can outfit him like a regular character:

Kaldath was in the right place at the right time, and I was able to get his HeroMachine 3 prize for the just-concluded Character Contest 28 (Child Of ...) done:

It's shown here colored, obviously, and in its default size and position. For longer fire-hair, you can use the Multiples setting, move one of the items all the way to the bottom of the stack, then scale it way up on the y-axis, like so:

Hopefully this will help make your fire-related characters easier to bring to life. Thanks to Kaldath for picking a great item for his prize!

TheNate has approved his prize for winning Caption Contest 64, and it is now live in HeroMachine 3 under the Insignia-Standard set:

It works well either as a straight Native American style chest symbol, or if you scale it up and make it somewhat transparent, it can serve as a great body tattoo. Nice suggestion, Nate, thanks!

I've just added Zyp's prize for being a Friday Night Fights semi-finalist:

For some reason I did a screencast of the drawing process, if you're interested it's after the jump.

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