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How do you make a tricky moving avatar ?
Posted: January 16th, 2007, 9:45 pm
by billw
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
Posted: January 17th, 2007, 4:30 am
by Tyn
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!
Posted: January 17th, 2007, 4:52 am
by Tyn
See simple, under 5 minutes!!
Posted: January 17th, 2007, 8:10 pm
by Byron Drachman
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
Thanks
Posted: January 17th, 2007, 10:01 pm
by billw
Tyn and Byron,
Thanks - I will have a go.
Yes Byron cute Granddaughter
Bill
Posted: January 18th, 2007, 3:00 am
by ancho
Time to change your avatar, Bill!
Hey Ancho Tyn and Byron whaddaya reckon
Posted: January 31st, 2007, 6:00 am
by billw
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
Posted: January 31st, 2007, 7:37 am
by ancho
And she proably is right!
Great avatar you made there!
Posted: January 31st, 2007, 11:57 am
by Byron Drachman
Hey Ancho Tyn and Byron whaddaya reckon
Hi Bill,
That's a great avatar. Nice going.
Byron
Re: Hey Ancho Tyn and Byron whaddaya reckon
Posted: February 1st, 2007, 11:41 am
by Tyn
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!!
Posted: February 1st, 2007, 1:19 pm
by ancho
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!
Posted: March 4th, 2007, 11:18 pm
by ancho
I've found another nice moving rowing related avatar for Bill Steamshovel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9GOJt5mRIg
Posted: March 5th, 2007, 6:04 am
by Tyn