Pixel Joint Forum: Tired of old unoriginal avatar

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i need a change in avatar i have decided, something with
transperencies. so i started this thing up. i am going to animate it.
the grass will begin to blow and stop. the butterfly will fly around. i
am thinking of adding some rocks and more detail. maybe some water or a
waterfall. But i need something for the bottom... and some thing to put
inside the letter. some ideas will come to me during school tomorrow...

the lightest green is supposed to be the grass in the back ground, but
it looks aittle strange now with the transperency. it looked better
with the white background i was working with.

**edit** you actually cat see the lightest green, and the buutterfly is bearly vissable. i will try to fix that later...

Edited by MurrMan

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MurrMan Commander Joined: 19 January 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 177	Topic: Tired of old unoriginal avatar Posted: 17 April 2006 at 7:33pm
	i need a change in avatar i have decided, something with transperencies. so i started this thing up. i am going to animate it. the grass will begin to blow and stop. the butterfly will fly around. i am thinking of adding some rocks and more detail. maybe some water or a waterfall. But i need something for the bottom... and some thing to put inside the letter. some ideas will come to me during school tomorrow... the lightest green is supposed to be the grass in the back ground, but it looks aittle strange now with the transperency. it looked better with the white background i was working with. edit you actually cat see the lightest green, and the buutterfly is bearly vissable. i will try to fix that later... Edited by MurrMan
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alkaline Commander Joined: 25 August 2020 Online Status: Offline Posts: 868	Posted: 17 April 2006 at 8:44pm
	I really like it. It's cool cause the M stands out so much. Can't wait to see it animated.
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Saboteur Commander Joined: 29 January 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 888	Posted: 17 April 2006 at 9:59pm
	Hah, you had an original avatar already, doof :) THOUGH I think I'm due for a new one as well. And I'm liking yours. Lookin' forward to the animation.
	"I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business."
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MurrMan Commander Joined: 19 January 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 177	Posted: 18 April 2006 at 3:53pm
	ok maybe it was original Saboteur, i just felt like it really didn't show much talent involved with it. that avatar was basicly a practice of dithering. Put in a rock and took away the old grass. this is probably the first work i have done with some grass. i have tired to make some platform tiles but the grass didn't really look interesting. this time i am a little more comfortable. it is probably my first serious work with rocks too. i wanted to place some blades of grass in front of the rocks, but i thought that it might ruin the shading i had. i made the butter fly and flowers bigger so i could put some more detail into them. I still haven't thought of what i could put at the bottom, maybe some dirt and hanging roots, but i am thinking of adding a tree behing the grass some where C&C welcome edit oh yeah, i think that the flowers and butterfly need a border to stand out better. i was going to put a white border aound the flowers and butter fly. but i am thinking that it wont be visable. maybe Black, or a dark shade? suggestions welcome. Edited by MurrMan
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Larwick Commander Joined: 18 July 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4015	Posted: 18 April 2006 at 5:40pm
	I think the flowers stand out fine, and i think a white outline on anything would spoil it. The new grass is also much better. I like the design. You could perhaps have the M textured like rocks... if not, remember to AA the inside. Looking forward to the animation.

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PixelSnader Commander Not a troll! Joined: 08 January 2026 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3194	Posted: 18 April 2006 at 5:54pm
	this one is definately an improvement, the outlines make it all much clearer
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alkaline Commander Joined: 25 August 2020 Online Status: Offline Posts: 868	Posted: 18 April 2006 at 7:48pm
	I'm always so infatuated with things like these and I agree, it's an improvement I'm not sure whether it would look better or worse with something underneath it but I'll wait and see how it turns out
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Psychotic_Carp Commander Joined: 02 April 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1008	Posted: 18 April 2006 at 7:50pm
	I didnt think your old one was boring, New one looks good but the flowers seem a bit small for me but im not at 1024x768
	got game?
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 18 April 2006 at 10:30pm
	Larwick has a good idea, also an ant colony sorta under grouhd cavity might work too. I think this is very pretty and kinda feminine with the monogram as is. I must admit that I love your existing avvy so I probably won't be pleased no matter what you do.
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MurrMan Commander Joined: 19 January 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 177	Posted: 18 April 2006 at 11:56pm
	hmmmm feminine you say? Hmmmmm... this calls for some Giant robo acion in the back ground... i will see what i can do.
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Dra_chan Commander Joined: 20 February 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 628	Posted: 19 April 2006 at 1:14am
	I like the details of the flowers and butterfly on the M, but then again, I'm a girl. I prefer the creepy smile in your current avatar though.
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MurrMan Commander Joined: 19 January 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 177	Posted: 19 April 2006 at 2:57pm
	ok i have been working on the animation. i have decided that i will not put any thing under the M bacause i need more space above it. i don't have anything to update yet because i have the freeware of Grafics Gale so i cant save to gif... and i am too cheap to buy it. i will probably get the 30 day trial of the full version soon, untill then there wont be updates. I have fixed the feminine theme but i am not going to reveal it just yet... it will be my surprise.
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Larwick Commander Joined: 18 July 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4015	Posted: 19 April 2006 at 2:59pm
	Ooh, cant wait.. lol.

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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 20 April 2006 at 8:00am
	*Originally posted by MurrMan* ...but i am not going to reveal it just yet... it will be my surprise. what an uber girly thing to do
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MurrMan Commander Joined: 19 January 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 177	Posted: 20 April 2006 at 12:28pm
	*Originally posted by jalonso* *Originally posted by MurrMan* ...but i am not going to reveal it just yet... it will be my surprise. what an uber girly thing to do you say that now...
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alkaline Commander Joined: 25 August 2020 Online Status: Offline Posts: 868	Posted: 20 April 2006 at 12:33pm
	what is it gonna explode in a fiery ball of destruction?
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PixelSnader Commander Not a troll! Joined: 08 January 2026 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3194	Posted: 20 April 2006 at 1:04pm
	no.. white bunnies, flowers, candycanes and other girly things =P
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Shark Commander a.k.a. Feron Joined: 02 July 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2136	Posted: 20 April 2006 at 5:32pm
	no i wanna see destruction. i also am i need of a new avatar. this is looking v nice to me, maybe add some texture onto the 'M'
	Snark, we love yuu.
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MurrMan Commander Joined: 19 January 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 177	Posted: 20 April 2006 at 10:10pm
	yeah i am thinking of making the M stony edit yeah, this topic will be quite for a couple of weeks because i have some major work to do in school... I have like an AP Chemistry test to study for and four projects to do, two of them being reseach papers, and on top of that i need to have some what of a life (un like some of you, i am sure of it ). All these projects have the happy due date of the same bloody week of my AP test. Oh just to let you know, am am not a nerd just because i take an AP, so don't call me one, i am sure that you all will say it anyway Edited by MurrMan
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