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Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: Sloehand on March 15, 2006, 12:54:03 AM

I'm seeing a lot of great avatars in here, and being a basic nube when it comes to graphics design (at least that which doesn't relate to a Data Flow Diagram), I'm wonder what tool is being used to create them and how to do it.  I've got some ideas for a design, but don't know what s/w to use to create them. Hopefully, the learning curve isn't too steep either as I'm not much of a mountain climber.

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: RTR on March 15, 2006, 01:00:55 AM

Sloehand, if yer the Sloehand from the old AW days and 1CAC, shoot me an email (its in my profile). Let me know what you want and we can fix u up and get ya edumacated and avatared.

If you ain't the same sloehand.....well..eh..what the heck do it anyway. We'll still fix ya up!

cheers,
RTR

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: Roscoroo on March 15, 2006, 01:37:12 AM

<--Psp 7 / animation shop 3

psp9 rocks though

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: SMIDSY on March 15, 2006, 04:30:35 AM

i stole mine from debonair. but most of my avatars are dug up from the bowls of the internet.

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: B@tfinkV on March 15, 2006, 04:41:58 AM

http://www.alchemymindworks.com


this site boasts a fantastic .gif animation package thats easy to use and very effective. the shareware version is available for download.

'Gif construction set pro'

made my avatard with this. It combines a animation page with MS paint, or you can set it up to work with PS, adobe, etc.

this one is quite cool, took a few hours though, and nearly 900 frames :D

(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/stick_killer.GIF)

could be done alot better though, and viewing it in this way through an image link makes it slow down horribly in places.


edit: hit refresh to restart.

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: betty on March 15, 2006, 06:22:47 AM

i made my avatar last night, it was easy, just used photoshop program

~betty~

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: 68ROX on March 15, 2006, 06:38:14 AM

While my static avitar isn't as snazzy as the animated ones, it still says who I am...and is very unique.

PaintShop Pro 8 did the job.  Just make sure your sizing fits AH standards or it won't upload.

   ROX

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: Ghosth on March 15, 2006, 07:33:05 AM

Paint for the image editing, Gif Contstruction Set Pro has a sweet animated gif wizard that makes the animation painless.

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: tatertot on March 15, 2006, 03:26:29 PM

nice job betty!     by the way you think you guys will ever be forgiven instead of unforgiven:D

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: Furball on March 15, 2006, 03:33:20 PM

made mine in photoshop/animation shop.

(http://www.furballunderground.com/Guest/furblg.gif)

i also made Morpheus' using the same

(http://www.furballunderground.com/Guest/morpheus.gif)

(http://www.furballunderground.com/Guest/morphlg.gif)


And soon to be making many more to stop me getting harassed by squaddies. :D

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: Skuzzy on March 15, 2006, 03:39:03 PM

Mine is in Photoshop/ImageReady.

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: HARR on March 15, 2006, 03:46:16 PM

I scanned the box to my Pirate Lego set

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: Mustaine on March 15, 2006, 04:13:05 PM

i stole all mine off the intardnet except this one i used to use... this one i made:

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/180_1126659460_newpod.gif)


oh yeah, skuzzy, i still liked the

I R

teh

GEEK

white background you used to have :p i worked for a long time getting the text to fit :lol

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: yayyyy on March 15, 2006, 05:11:27 PM

why not make it loop batfink, so you dont have to refresh

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: B@tfinkV on March 15, 2006, 05:32:12 PM

cos it was the first thing i ever made with it and i hadnt used the animation wizard and gained the advanced controls

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: yayyyy on March 15, 2006, 06:35:12 PM

nice job though. did you sketch it on paper first or something?

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: B@tfinkV on March 15, 2006, 08:08:42 PM

nah i just got overexcited when i first found an animation editor so userfriendly and free and sat there for 4 hours drawing first the set then editing each frame-copy paste it -edit to next frame -copy past- edit to next frame etc. boring as hell i only ever made one long one after that.



i see your 'inkwell' is really an f14 morpheus, nice works furball.

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: SMIDSY on March 15, 2006, 09:01:46 PM

you dont need fancy photoshop skills to make avatars. check out this signature i made for another forum. i did it by cutting and pasting images then adding in other stuff.

(http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/6015/nixonsigmk22vk.jpg)

and this one too.
(http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4036/billsig3mv.gif)

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: Lye-El on March 16, 2006, 03:02:00 PM

I got mine from the 'net.

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: nirvana on March 16, 2006, 03:36:21 PM

Stoled mine after I ripped the Elliott Smith CD to my computer.

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: Sloehand on March 16, 2006, 10:45:48 PM

Hey, thanks one and all for the info.  I'm still not sure exactly what all the parameters are, but I'll experiment and find that out.  I've got basic Photoshop, not sure about any animation feature though.  But I'm going to look up some of the links given, etc.  I guess I should add that I was looking for the most inexpensive solution as this is just going to be an occasional thing.  I don't expect to be doing alot of such work.
With one exception.  How would these tools and/or the process relate to designing nose art?  I want to take JG-3 signature graphic and try to shrink it down to usable size as nose art.
Anyway, thanks for the responses.

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: EN4CER on March 16, 2006, 11:52:53 PM

Glomed it from the Intardnet and used Macromedia Fireworks to edit it.

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: Lazerr on March 17, 2006, 02:50:21 AM

I think yayyy has the coolest one so far.. haha!

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: betty on March 17, 2006, 12:21:58 PM

Quote

Originally posted by tatertot
nice job betty!     by the way you think you guys will ever be forgiven instead of unforgiven:D

ty tater, i ended up makin a new avatar

(http://myspace-184.vo.llnwd.net/00574/48/16/574966184_l.jpg)


this is it but a bigger version

and btw, y would we wanna b forgiven....being unforgiven is what makes us special :D

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: Schatzi on March 17, 2006, 04:53:14 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Sloehand

With one exception.  How would these tools and/or the process relate to designing nose art?  I want to take JG-3 signature graphic and try to shrink it down to usable size as nose art.
Anyway, thanks for the responses.

If you create a pic and shrink it to size (or shrink a given pic), blur it a bit before you resize.... looks better.

Title: Cool Avatars
Post by: Roscoroo on March 17, 2006, 10:40:17 PM

Mrs Roo's resizing tutorial for psp  (http://www.stngtutpages.greatnow.com/tutorials/resizing/resizing.htm)  She wrote this one back in psp 5 thru 8 days  but it still sort of applys even with psp 9  

 photo shop  is different sort of .