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Your challenge this week is to create a modern Amazon character outfitted for battle in the 21^st century, but based on one of the warrior women from the past.

The following link leads to an alphabetic list of famed Amazons.

http://www.whoosh.org/issue12/ruffel3.html

This Wikipedia link might come in handy as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons

The winning entry will receive a version of their entry HeroMachined by yours truly.

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, April 20th.

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.

Your challenge this week is to come up with a team logo and team name for both groups. Both the name and logo should relate in some way to each group’s intergalactic makeup.

There will be two winners announced, and each winner will be immortalized by yours truly as the 8^th and final members of each team.

Just to refresh your memories the teams are...

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Great job again folks. This week the win goes to...

AMS! Beautiful job man. The light effects are pure magic.

Your prize will be posted to the blog later this week, and as a costume guy, i may do a slightly less lit version, so the outfit is more visible.

Thanks to everyone that entered.

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 move onto the female known as Sunspot of the villain team.

Age: unknown

Planet of origin: Moltonia – a small planet which orbits a distant sun believed to be uninhabited

Appearance: Sunspot is best described as living lava. Her skin is mostly charred and black, but tiny cracks reveal a molten centre.

Powers: Can generate and propel balls of fire and lava; heat vision; fire breathing; flight.

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, March 9th.