Avatars for all!

mactbone · April 25, 2002, 23:49

Well, since I need about 100 posts until I get a custom avatar I can't really use any of these, but I figured we should have a thread for people to ask for avatars. I'm very willing to search for stuff, and I already have a couple of pics that just need some tweaking to become avatars.

mactbone · April 26, 2002, 02:48

Autobots...

Scouse Gits · April 26, 2002, 02:58

I like the "mouse with attitude" ...

SG[1]

notyoueither · April 26, 2002, 03:14

It has Yin written all over it.

Scouse Gits · April 26, 2002, 05:05

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Originally posted by notyoueither
It has Yin written all over it.

Don't you mean Xin

SG[1]

Case · April 26, 2002, 06:59

Quote:

Originally posted by MacTBone
Well, since I need about 100 posts until I get a custom avatar I can't really use any of these, but I figured we should have a thread for people to ask for avatars.

aaglo · April 26, 2002, 08:43

McTB. Surely you can wait till september...

And it's not the avatar that makes the man....

MrWhereItsAt · April 26, 2002, 08:48

Oh yes it is!

aaglo · April 26, 2002, 08:51

Well, looking at yours.... now WhereItsAt... I mean your avatar....

Oooh, you're not a man at all! So that makes you either a boy, a girl or a woman. Which one is it?

MrWhereItsAt · April 26, 2002, 08:55

I'm holding out for it, aaglo. I can't wait for my "manhood".

And MacTBone - I do like the idea. If I didn't have mine all chosen out, I'd want the Autobot one.

mactbone · April 26, 2002, 14:49

I was fooling around in photoshop trying to combine the Decepticon and Autobot logos, but I can't get it to look right.

mactbone · April 26, 2002, 14:52

BTW, the one year avatars aren't in effect anymore.

Here are some other cartoon ones.

Skanky Burns · April 27, 2002, 03:43

You wouldn't be able to do some sort of moving XCom avatar would you?

yaroslav · April 27, 2002, 07:36

Quote:

Originally posted by MacTBone
I was fooling around in photoshop trying to combine the Aubot

...

Just for curiosity, in Spain we call it 'Transformers'

Zopperoni · April 27, 2002, 07:54

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Originally posted by yaroslav
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Just for curiosity, in Spain we call it 'Transformers'

Uhm...yeah...but Transformers are split up into Autobots ("good guys") and Decepticons ("bad guys"), remember?

yaroslav · April 27, 2002, 08:55

Quote:

Originally posted by Zopperoni

Uhm...yeah...but Transformers are split up into Autobots ("good guys") and Decepticons ("bad guys"), remember?

I didn't remember it

... Sorry.

And when I was a boy I love the program. I drawed the autobots in my study-book too many times

Caesar the Great · April 27, 2002, 09:44

yay!

General Ludd · April 27, 2002, 10:19

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Originally posted by Skanky Burns
You wouldn't be able to do some sort of moving XCom avatar would you?

I might, do you want to be more specific?

I'm guessing that you are thinking about something from the opening intro?

General Ludd · April 27, 2002, 12:14

For example...

Grrr · April 27, 2002, 15:56

The mouse is great. MrWhereItsAt, weren't you ahead of me in the post count for some time? Now you still have 42 to go. Did you get pcred?

Mercator · April 27, 2002, 16:07

Quote:

Originally posted by MacTBone
I was fooling around in photoshop trying to combine the Decepticon and Autobot logos, but I can't get it to look right.

How 'bout this?

(it'll probably need some more touching up, but you get the idea)

Tainted Angel · April 27, 2002, 16:13

Quote:

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
I like the "mouse with attitude" ...

SG[1]

Is that's "Brain" from "Pinky and the Brain"?

mactbone · April 27, 2002, 17:02

Yes, the mouse is Brain.

The Autobot/Decepticon thing looks cool. Actually, I was trying to take the 2D pics of the logos and blend them, so that the left side was decepticon and the right side autobot with some kind of mix in the middle (like the whole thing was transforming or melting into the opposite).

I found some gifs of x-com stuff - I put them all on my website. I currently don't have a program to make animations, but it looks like other people do. I think it would be cool if you took the orginal and the autopsied version of an alien and had the image alternate between the two. Or, you could have all the aliens cycle through.

My web address is http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~mckibbin/ to get to the x-com pics go to the Pics folder. I've seperated them by game.

General Ludd · April 27, 2002, 19:02

I think some of these might be too big in file size to use as an avatar, but I can always reduce their size, and change (or remove) the transition effects.

Aside from taking things out of the intro I could also make some animations with the in-game graphics.

I don't know if anyone even wants these though... ah well, it's good practice.

faded glory · April 27, 2002, 23:32

my avatar is cool

Skanky Burns · April 28, 2002, 01:46

I was thinking something from UFO or Apoc, but seeing as I don't have permission to access the apocalypse gifs in MacTBone's site, UFO it is!

I would probably go with XCom5.gif, maybe cutting the cyberdisc, floater, and purple blobby things (forgot its name

) to help make the file small enough. I tried making it smaller by saving it at the lowest quality, but even that was way too big

If you can get it under 10k, I will use it!

Faded... I'm just wondering how long it will last though, and what Markos will replace it with...

General Ludd · April 28, 2002, 10:47

I didn't realise the limit was 10k, I thought it was 100k.

There is no way I can make it small enough while keeping the transitions, without making it miniscule. Heck, I could barely do it without the transitions.

But, you could always use a still image.

mactbone · April 28, 2002, 12:09

Alright, I've fixed the permissions as far as I can tell.

Skanky Burns · April 30, 2002, 07:23

But killed the links on the frontpage...

Osweld:
Looking at the moving avatars I have, they are all 16 frames or less. Also, none of them have backgrounds, the image only fills a part of the available area. Then they still only just made it.

MrWhereItsAt · April 30, 2002, 08:12

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Originally posted by Grrr
The mouse is great. MrWhereItsAt, weren't you ahead of me in the post count for some time? Now you still have 42 to go. Did you get pcred?

I'm too polite for PCRs, Grrr. I got addicted to the horrible go-nowhere drug OT and stopped playing Civ - all versions. That'
s changing now I'm in the Democratic game - and I now have a, ah, prominent role to play.

I'm reformed now - I still go OT every now and again - but I know when to stop.

And are (non-animated) thumbnails typically small enough to be Avatars? I can't quite test this yet.