How do you make a tricky moving avatar ?

billw · Post by **billw** » January 16th, 2007, 9:45 pm

Hello,

How do you make a tricky moving avatar ?

ie like Tyns bouncing purple thingie

or like the penguin flipper

Can I make the steamshovel do something ?

Bill

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » January 17th, 2007, 4:30 am

ancho wrote:From another thread:

billw wrote:Hello,

How do you make a tricky moving avatar ?

ie like Tyns bouncing purple thingie

or like the penguin flipper

Can I make the steamshovel do something ?

Bill
A moving should do a really great avatar!

If you've got photoshop with imageready, it.s very easy All you need to do is to create 3 or 4 different images and load them into imageready, then scale them down!

This little animation was made with only 3 frames, but was scaled down for avatar use!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnR-ywrpwd8

Good Luck and see the great avatars thread!

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » January 17th, 2007, 4:52 am

See simple, under 5 minutes!!

Byron Drachman · Post by **Byron Drachman** » January 17th, 2007, 8:10 pm

I just made two animated gifs by using Microsoft's Gif Maker (it's a freebie.) I gave the link for the download in the thread under great avatars. I have an old digital camera that takes low resolution short videos. I stopped the video at five parts of the stroke, then copied the screen image to clipboard (Alt+Print Screen), then pasted the screen image into a photo editor and cropped and resized the images. I then use the Microsoft animated GIF maker to create the animated gif.

I must get a good camcorder one of these days, and perhaps the software to make animated gifs more easily. That's a cute granddaughter, hey?

Byron

billw · Post by **billw** » January 17th, 2007, 10:01 pm

Tyn and Byron,

Thanks - I will have a go.

Yes Byron cute Granddaughter

Bill

ancho · Post by **ancho** » January 18th, 2007, 3:00 am

Time to change your avatar, Bill!

billw · Post by **billw** » January 31st, 2007, 6:00 am

ancho wrote:Time to change your avatar, Bill!

Thanks for the tips gents.

I had a go today

Used the Microsoft GIF program that Byron recommended. Good thing.

Mrs Shovel thinks I am daft.

Bill

ancho · Post by **ancho** » January 31st, 2007, 7:37 am

And she proably is right!

Great avatar you made there!

Byron Drachman · Post by **Byron Drachman** » January 31st, 2007, 11:57 am

Hey Ancho Tyn and Byron whaddaya reckon

Hi Bill,

That's a great avatar. Nice going.

Byron

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » February 1st, 2007, 11:41 am

billw wrote:
ancho wrote:Time to change your avatar, Bill!
Thanks for the tips gents.

I had a go today

Used the Microsoft GIF program that Byron recommended. Good thing.

Mrs Shovel thinks I am daft.

Bill

I love it!!

It's a shame this Ancho has a 'non animated' avatar!

But what?
He is Spanish, they don't move alot!!

ancho · Post by **ancho** » February 1st, 2007, 1:19 pm

Tyn wrote:...
It's a shame this Ancho has a 'non animated' avatar!

But what?
He is Spanish, they don't move alot!!

I just move on the water, sometimes running, and on the erg when I'm sprinting!

ancho · Post by **ancho** » March 4th, 2007, 11:18 pm

I've found another nice moving rowing related avatar for Bill Steamshovel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9GOJt5mRIg

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » March 5th, 2007, 6:04 am

ancho wrote:I've found another nice moving rowing related avatar for Bill Steamshovel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9GOJt5mRIg

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