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I'm a fan of superheroes, fantasy and such. This logically led me to making stuff with Heromachine.
These are primarily character and costume designs. The first priority is the visuals fitting the character. If the design happens to have some aesthetic value, that's just a bonus. There are a bunch of people out there who are making incredible art with Heromachine, and I tip my hat to them, but that is not what I do.
How Stargazer was made
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how are you so good at making sideways facing characters!?
Practice!
No, seriously. If you look at what I've done, I haven't made many directly forward-facing characters in years. I got bored of doing the same pose over and over, so I tried new things.
There's some tricks that can help, if you want to learn more:
1. Here's how to adjust clothing items to work at an angle.
2. Here's how to use Companion items for clothing and body parts.
3. If you can't find clothing that fits the pose, you can sometimes make it out of smaller pieces. E.g. Magpie's pants are actually made of small "skirts"
4. Cover up everything that doesn't work. You don't have to get every item or body part just right if you just cover up the messy bits. Use accessories, clothing, hair, whatever you can think of. I covered up a lot of awkward bits when making Medeia, for example.
NOTICE: PlagiarismOkay, I'm usually a fairly mellow person. But right now, I am supremely fucking pissed off. But I'm also somewhat proud that someone saw my work worth plagiarizing.
I would like you guys to visits this fella's Wordpress blog, and look VERY carefully at the similarities between his work and mine; especially in the tabs marked "Outer Earths".
Also, does the image and character in this page look familiar?
https://sunburstcomics.wordpress.com/2019/08/17/dark-enchantress/
The original: http://fav.me/dcy4v1q
He even forgot to change my character's name at one point:
https://sunburstcomics.wordpress.com/2019/08/17/the-off-worlders-63/
Looking around, I saw he had some works done HeroMachine 3 on his page; DEFINITELY go on there and check to make sure those characters he has don't belong to you.
That is all, folks. Here is the blog in question. I have reported him already, but I need your h
Hey bud, I HIGHLY recommend going to this guy's blog and checking to make sure if he stole anything else from you. He's already got this:
sunburstcomics.wordpress.com/2…
Yeah, I noticed that drama, but I don't really mind. I wish he had asked first, but some folks are taking this overly seriously.
Of course, that's just my take on it.
I'm honestly not sure why I didn't do it before, I had just forgotten to do so.
I honestly don't know if there's anything I can do with Heromachine that you don't already match or do even better. I mean, our styles are obviously very different, but both your technical ability and sheer output impress me a lot. Keep up the good work, buddy.
I haven't felt inspired to finish any Heromachine design in months, so I'm just observing for now, and, again, I really enjoy seeing people push what the software can do, and you do that.