Topic: Official Avatar Discussion

[Blaster009]

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Originally posted by: mouse_clicker
Looks pretty awesome, Blaster. Always good to see a fellow MSPaint artist.

It's the only thing I have on my computer to make avatars...

As for the everybody's avatars, I guess change is good, right?

[KnowsNothing]

Mine'll be Aryll since photobucket seems to have kicked my account off the interweb and I can't be arsed into making a new one just yet. -_____-

[Hostile Creation]

Nice choice, knowsnothing

[DrZoidberg]

el zoidbergo is afoot!

[NintendoSoldier]

Can someone explain to me how to get this avatar up .

[Bill Aurion]

1) The avatar must be on your own webspace
2) Post link in box labeled External Icon at the bottom of your profile...

Simple...  

[NintendoSoldier]

Ohhh thank you .

[evil intentions]

Link, "HIYA!"

[Bill Aurion]

I'm trying to find time to work on a Marin sketch, but it's tough...So all I have is her head for now... ^_^,

[S-U-P-E-R]

I have the most rocking of zombies in my avatar, just like the ol' ezboard days.
And the most bagheaded of doctors!

Zombie invasion '04 update: this is postcount #1000, until I figure out how to edit in negative numbers

[Mario]

64x64 4eva

[evil intentions]

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Originally posted by: S-U-P-E-R
I have the most rocking of zombies in my avatar, just like the ol' ezboard days.
And the most bagheaded of doctors!

Zombie invasion '04 update: this is postcount #1000, until I figure out how to edit in negative numbers

I guess you were serious about the Zombie month huh? Zombies=a no, no.

(Zombies give me nightmares!!)

[KDR_11k]

Bill: Try some tutorials, it looks seriously off...

[Bill Aurion]

Tutorials for drawing? ;__;

I scanned in a sketch that took me about 3 minutes...

[ruby_onix]

Nah, tutorials for computers, of course.

You used a GIF for your avatar. GIF is so 80's. PNG is where it's at. Or at least JPEG. GIF should only be used when annoying animation is required.

[Bill Aurion]

But GIF is a smaller file size...

[KDR_11k]

I meant tutorials on how to draw manga/anime styled characters. But if you can do better by simply spending more time on it...

[mouse_clicker]

GIFs are fine when working with something as small as an avatar- you're not going to notice the drop in quality of the finer points. You can also get some cool artifacting if you use something like Paint to make the picture a GIF.

[ruby_onix]

Yeah, I know.

PNG is really nice when you're looking for materials to make an avatar, but once you mash it down to 100x100, you really don't need the extra quality of PNG anymore.

I just saw an opening, and had to attack Bill from an unexpected side. I couldn't resist.

[Bill Aurion]

Right from behind!  I didn't see it coming...

[KDR_11k]

PNG at 8-bit is smaller than GIF at 8-bit. There are rendering erors with PNG alphas and IE, but who cares about compatibility for such obsolete software, anyway?

[bostwick202]

its cold

[Harvey]

It's LinkJim!!  Er, Earthworm Link?  The Legend of Jim?  EarthLink Jim?
...
EarthLink Sucks?

[King of Twitch]

Linkworm Jim?

[ruby_onix]

Here's a neat little find.

I was just browsing around for avatar ideas (you can never have too many great avatars), and found http://www.animegalleries.net/.

They've got a whole bunch of anime pictures. But here's the neat part. They've got a Javascript feature that lets you resize and crop the pictures down to produce avatar-sized pictures (100x100, 64x64, whatever size you want).

You can get better-looking results with a photo editing program, but I guess if you don't want to install anything, and are too shy to ask someone else to crop the pics, then this is for you.