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Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: daddog on January 26, 2005, 02:55:43 PM: Can you change this banner into an avatar that would work on the HTC BB? The part of the banner that has the hound changing into a P-51?

http://www.332nd.org/squadroster.htm
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: Furball on January 26, 2005, 03:16:32 PM: just had a very quick go at it, this what you looking for?

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/71_1106774172_animation3.gif)
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: mars01 on January 26, 2005, 03:18:58 PM: LOL I cant stop watching, stop it. lol
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: daddog on January 26, 2005, 03:25:36 PM: Excellent furball! That will work! :)

Thank you sir!
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: Furball on January 26, 2005, 03:32:15 PM: you're welcome.

i am sure someone who has a bit more time will refine it for you and make the background transparent and resize the animation correctly for you.

my version will keep you going until then! :)
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: Flyboy on January 26, 2005, 03:36:48 PM: RUNSTANG!!!!

:D
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: JB73 on January 26, 2005, 03:47:43 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Flyboy
RUNSTANG!!!!

:D
LMFAO my first thought too
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: daddog on January 26, 2005, 04:40:40 PM: LOL would be true if most of us flew the P-51, but our squadies favorite rides range from Me110's to Zekes. :) Quite a mixed bag, but the P-51 represents the 332nd end of it. :)

Besides most of us are not smart enough to know when to run.
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: Halo on January 26, 2005, 05:11:20 PM: That is so cool. But ... wouldn't you prefer a mustang horse evolving into the P-51? And maybe a second or two longer in the P-51 shape?
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: SunKing on January 26, 2005, 05:17:32 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Halo
That is so cool. But ... wouldn't you prefer a mustang horse evolving into the P-51? And maybe a second or two longer in the P-51 shape?

The squad is The Flying Mongrels.....

not the flying mustangs.
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: bustr on January 26, 2005, 05:29:25 PM: Can you do one with a Tyranasaurous Rex running and turning into a P47 ~~Jugs a great green dinos that eat other planes. :)~~
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: Halo on January 26, 2005, 06:23:57 PM: (Quote) The squad is The Flying Mongrels.....

not the flying mustangs. (Unquote)

Oh (slapping forehead), duh! Didn't look at the squadron link. Vewy cwever, indeed.
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: bustr on January 26, 2005, 07:51:16 PM: Furball,

What application did you use to create the avitar and how do you insure the outcome is the correct resolution and is so nicely viewable?
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: Furball on January 27, 2005, 12:27:48 PM: Quote
Originally posted by bustr
Furball,

What application did you use to create the avitar and how do you insure the outcome is the correct resolution and is so nicely viewable?

I just cut out the image for each frame out myself using photoshop, to be honest i just did it free hand trying to keep roughly the same size. Then just put all the frames together and reversed the order at the end, so that the mustang looks like it is morphing back into the dog - rather than the animation just ending and restarting (the mustang would immediately flick back into a dog otherwise)

Once the animation is made, just resize it so the larger of the 2 dimensions (length, width) is 64 pixels making sure it keeps proportioned, and voila, you have an avatar.

took 5 - 10 mins.

My avatar took me friggen ages to make, trying to keep it under the size limit.
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: bustr on January 27, 2005, 12:40:54 PM: Furball,

I have to be honest, I've never created an animated gif before. I'm lost in your descrption of putting the frames together. I have photoshop, but I will read on the internet anything I can find on making animated gif files.

How do you get the single frame gif avatar to resize and look as good as so many members here have theirs?

Our squad motto is "Cave Tonitrum". Beware the Thunderbolt.

I wanted to do an animated gif that has a thunderbolt morphing into a P47.
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: Furball on January 27, 2005, 12:49:54 PM: i cannot *make* images, i just use and resize what is already there.

Frames are the individual images that make up an animation - the dog mustang one has 14 separate images. I open them in a program called Animation shop. I resize and adjust the quality of the image from there.

for editing gif's, try this website http://www.gifworks.com/
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: Furball on January 27, 2005, 01:22:34 PM: tried to improve it a little for you

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/71_1106853735_daddog.gif)
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: bustr on January 27, 2005, 02:55:33 PM: Furball,

Thanks, I downloaded a freeware called Movies12. It broke your animated gif into its parts. Became very clear how to create one. I liked how you created your morphing effect. Now I just need to fing a Jug and some thunderbolt anime.
------====))))sssSSSSSSSSS>>>>>>>>POWWWWWbbbbbBBOOOOM(@)<--cute jug.........:)
Title: Nopoop old buddy, old pal
Post by: Halo on January 27, 2005, 03:00:59 PM: Great work, Furball. I would prefer two gallops of the dog and a longer P-51 duration. But hey, maybe that's just me. :aok