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Well, considering the time of year and how close we are to a certain holiday (only 4 or so weeks away now I think), I thought I might once again test the water with this idea and see I people would be interested in participating in the Santa Swap again if I reopened it for December this year.
Basically for those of you that missed it last year, you make a “Christmas List” of 5 heromachine related things, someone gives you one of those things, you give them something off their list in return, like giving and receiving presents. It is a Christmas thing after all, the idea is to be generous.
The thread will be opened on December 1st (if I get a decent level of interest) and remain open until Christmas Eve (that’d be the 24th of December, if you didn’t know). You can see the rules in the post above and last years thread is here: http://www.heromachine.com/forum/art-contests-challenges/santa-swap/
So are you guys interested?

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@The Atomic Punk said:

Lovely. That aura must have taken forever.

Not really. Once the circles were in place it wasn’t that time consuming. The real problem was shading the damn thing (getting the shading points on the chest piece was interesting, especially after I’d already used a gradient effect on it anyway).

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Anyway. Been playing with the new items (cheers for those dblade). Quite like this one.

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Well, look who it is. Good to have you back sir.

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Thanks for killing the contest. No-one’s going to enter now you’ve entered that.

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Explosion

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Welcome Fanfer, good start. I will admit it took me a second to figure the joke, but it did make me laugh.

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Clicked the full screen, saw Rocketina, went HOOO WOW.
Nice blending of companions there, and as per usual the shading is exceptional.
And there’s nothing wrong with redesigns. Especially when they’re this good.

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Balloon

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Board

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Good to see you’re creating new stuff again dblade. I haven’t got any ‘new’ new suggestions just versions of things we already have.

1. I’d like a clenched fist version of this, because I’ve wanted to do a character with this gauntlet holding a weapon and it doesn’t work in its current state.
2. Open handed versions of the two and three fingered hands, open fingered preferably (plus female versions if possible)
3. A fully extended version of this tentacle.
4. A footless version of this leg, or a similar animal like leg with the lengthened foot section between the ankle and the balls of the feet (once again I’ve wanted to do a character with that sort of leg and I had to do some hugely over complicated masking that didn’t get the effect I wanted).
5. The shin section of this leg (and the male version whilst I think about it, but I’m not desperate for that), because we have the thigh separate and the shin for the 3/4 turned leg, but those two don’t line up very well when you’re trying to do slightly adjusted leg poses.
6. A fur-less version of this hand, because we don’t have a clawed hand in a neutral position that doesn’t have fur on.

Oh and something else I’ve just thought of but isn’t in the picture, the tiger striped tail in backplane tails, if we could have a version of that with a different shading so it matches with the skin rather than being striped, that would be very useful.

If you can’t do them then don’t worry but I’m sure you can appreciate where I’m coming from on some of these.
Thanks

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Ermy!!!! Yay, an orb holder. Finally.

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Street

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High

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I think she needs to invest in a different costume, especially with her power set. She could do some serious harm to herself. Like concussions.

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