Tired of old unoriginal avatar
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Topic: Tired of old unoriginal avatar
Posted By: MurrMan
Subject: Tired of old unoriginal avatar
Date Posted: 17 April 2006 at 7:33pm
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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... http://imageshack.us">  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... |
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Posted By: alkaline
Date 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. |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 17 April 2006 at 9:59pm
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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." |
Posted By: MurrMan
Date Posted: 18 April 2006 at 3:53pm
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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 http://imageshack.us">  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. |
Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 18 April 2006 at 5:40pm
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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. -------------  http://larw-ck.deviantart.com">
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Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 18 April 2006 at 5:54pm
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this one is definately an improvement, the outlines make it all much clearer ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: alkaline
Date Posted: 18 April 2006 at 7:48pm
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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 |
Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 18 April 2006 at 7:50pm
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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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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 18 April 2006 at 10:30pm
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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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Posted By: MurrMan
Date 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. |
Posted By: Dra_chan
Date 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. |
Posted By: MurrMan
Date 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. |
Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 19 April 2006 at 2:59pm
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Ooh, cant wait.. lol. ------------- http://larw-ck.deviantart.com">
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 20 April 2006 at 8:00am
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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 ------------- |
Posted By: MurrMan
Date Posted: 20 April 2006 at 12:28pm
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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... |
Posted By: alkaline
Date Posted: 20 April 2006 at 12:33pm
| what is it gonna explode in a fiery ball of destruction? |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 20 April 2006 at 1:04pm
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no.. white bunnies, flowers, candycanes and other girly things =P ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 20 April 2006 at 5:32pm
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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. |
Posted By: MurrMan
Date Posted: 20 April 2006 at 10:10pm
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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  |