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Halloween is around the corner!  The challenge this week is to create a traditional Halloween themed monster.  Vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein, mummies, ghouls and etc are all acceptable concepts to choose from.

Keep it creative in putting it in a modern spin, love child of 2 themes, comedic or something totally new!  No need for highlights and shading if that is not in your wheel house.  Judging will be on strong, creative concepts and ideas!

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.
  • No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted. 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 (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like
  http://www.heromachine.com/forum, Image Shack, 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.
  • Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).

This challenge will close at 6 pm on Saturday, October 29th.

I will be judging this contest and the winner chosen by me (AMS).  Winning entry will be awarded a character concept reinterpreted by me that is/was created and chosen by the winning artist.

Happy Halloween!

After adding up the scores from the votes, the winner is....

WORF!!!

Scores were Worf with 31 pts, ams with 30 pts, Nerdandproud with 13 pts and Ian Healy with 6pts.

Congrats!!! Next, as the rules were written by Djuby...

• The winner each week will receive my version of their entry rendered using HeroMachine 3.  (*As David is on the mend, I can fulfill the prize if he is unable)

• The winner each week will choose the topic of the next challenge, and cannot enter the challenge.  Simply email me your
challenge topic to dwjuby@cogeco.ca by 12:30 pm on Sunday.

Worf,  you are up to producing the next challenge topic.

Hey gang!

As per David (djuby), the voting for the Wolverine-pose can now begin.

Please follow the following instructions...

• Challenges will start weekly on Sunday at 1pm Eastern
• Challenges will close on Saturday of the same week at 6pm
• After the challenge closes members will vote for a top 3.
• You must assign first, second and third place
• If you vote an entry as First it will receive ten points; a second place finish gets 7 points; third place gets three
points.
• The winner each week will receive my version of their entry rendered using HeroMachine 3
• You cannot vote for your own entry
• Voting must be completed by 11am Sunday.
• The winner each week will choose the topic of the next challenge, and cannot enter the challenge .Simply email me your
challenge topic to dwjuby@cogeco.ca by 12:30 pm on Sunday.
• Perhaps most importantly, this means that I can enter CDCs again

Good luck all entries!

Using the picture of Wolverine (above) ,your challenge is to recreate the pose pictured. No need to add the costume or blades but you must include all your masking by changing the lines to red.
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
andcheck.All entries must be in JPG or PNG (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like
http://www.heromachine.com/forum, Image Shack, 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 make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).
Thia challenge will close at 6 pm on Saturday, September 10. Voting will start then.
Here is what is changing:
• Challenges will start weekly on Sunday at 1pm Eastern
• Challenges will close on Saturday of the same week at 6pm
• After the challenge closes members will vote for a top 3.
• You must assign first, second and third place
• If you vote an entry as First it will receive ten points; a second place finish gets 7 points; third place gets three
points.
• The winner each week will receive my version of their entry rendered using HeroMachine 3
• You cannot vote for your own entry
• Voting must be completed by 11am Sunday.
• The winner each week will choose the topic of the next challenge, and cannot enter the challenge .Simply email me your
challenge topic to dwjuby@cogeco.ca by 12:30 pm on Sunday.
• Perhaps most importantly, this means that I can enter CDCs again

• 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 (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like http://www.heromachine.com/forum, Image Shack, 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 make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).

Here is what is changing:
• Challenges will start weekly on Sunday at 1pm Eastern
• Challenges will close on Saturday of the same week at 6pm
• After the challenge closes members will vote for a top 3.
• You must assign first, second and third place
• If you vote an entry as First it will receive ten points; a second place finish gets 7 points; third place gets three points.
• The winner each week will receive my version of their entry rendered using HeroMachine 3
• You cannot vote for your own entry
• Voting must be completed by 11am Sunday.
• The winner each week will choose the topic of the next challenge, and cannot enter the challenge .Simply email me your challenge topic to dwjuby@cogeco.ca by 12:30 pm on Sunday.
• Perhaps most importantly, this means that I can enter CDCs again 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 (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like http://www.heromachine.com/forum, Image Shack, 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 make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).

Here is what is changing:
• Challenges will start weekly on Sunday at 1pm Eastern
• Challenges will close on Saturday of the same week at 6pm
• After the challenge closes members will vote for a top 3.
• You must assign first, second and third place
• If you vote an entry as First it will receive ten points; a second place finish gets 7 points; third place gets three points.
• The winner each week will receive my version of their entry rendered using HeroMachine 3
• You cannot vote for your own entry
• Voting must be completed by 11am Sunday.
• The winner each week will choose the topic of the next challenge, and cannot enter the challenge .Simply email me your challenge topic to dwjuby@cogeco.ca by 12:30 pm on Sunday.
• Perhaps most importantly, this means that I can enter CDCs again

The premise of this contest is that over the next number of weeks we will build a team of BIPOC 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. This week we tackle the villain’s mysterious female - Gynecia
Origin – Human / Galadrian – a planet of shape shifters
Real Name – Gynecia
Age – 5 in Galadrian years
Powers: Morphing
Backstory: Unknown
The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way.
Rules for posts, contests, and challenges:
Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters.No characters based on Official RPG NPC's ( Non-Player Characters ). Please keep all submissions PG13. 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;
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 on Sunday, April 24th at 10:00 am Eastern

Finally feeling good enough to start these up again. The Facebook group has been running contests in my absence, which I hope continue ... so I can enter.
The winner of this round is ..
AMS

I love everything about this, but I am obsessed with the 'atomic mace'. Brilliant!
Thanks to all who entered

Hey machiners DJuby here. Just wanted to give you a a quick update on me and the CDCs

On March 12th I had a massive heart attack, had a stint put in my heart, and subesquently suffered heart failure (twice) 3 days later. They implanted a befibralator.

Everythings seems to operating the way it should now, and I am at home and resting. Hope to restart the CDCs shortly

Due to being really busy at work over the next few weeks, there will be no CDC this week. That hsould allow me to get caught up with the prizes and make the switch to the vililain group. See you on the 20th/