Hi, I notice that several Dakka members have given themselves animated avatars and wondered how I might make one myself. I have various programs for graphics manipulation and can make animated giffs, etc but cannot find any info about what is the best format to use. If this is already covered somewhere else can someone point me to it? Thanks

Bah, I was hoping this was a thread to complain about the animated Avatars. Most of them have annoyed me enough that I've started Adblocking the ones I dislike, which is more than half that I've seen I believe. I find them too distracting in most cases.

Complain away, the internet is a big place and no doubt lots of people will agree with you. I am just interested in extending my pc skills and adding a bit of originality to my dakka "face". Even some of the non animated avatars are annoying.

Awwww Aduro you haven't blocked mine have you D: . I've gotten so many compliments on the incredibly disturbing clown-thingy that is my avatar .

But I didn't make my avatar, I found it on the web. If you want to find an animated avatar, just google animated avatars or .gif avatars and something should come up.

If you can make animated GIFs, make one. I'm not aware of any other format for animated pictures.

Also, your damn stupid clown-thing was probably only the second dakka avatar I've ever adblocked. Jolly annoying!

Darth Bob wrote:Awwww Aduro you haven't blocked mine have you D: . I've gotten so many compliments on the incredibly disturbing clown-thingy that is my avatar .

But I didn't make my avatar, I found it on the web. If you want to find an animated avatar, just google animated avatars or .gif avatars and something should come up.

Yours and the "Boom Headshot" one were the first two I blocked. I think I've only actually blocked like four, since few people really have them. I've also blocked the various Adoptables people had in their sigs.

Aduro wrote:

Darth Bob wrote:Awwww Aduro you haven't blocked mine have you D: . I've gotten so many compliments on the incredibly disturbing clown-thingy that is my avatar .

But I didn't make my avatar, I found it on the web. If you want to find an animated avatar, just google animated avatars or .gif avatars and something should come up.

Yours and the "Boom Headshot" one were the first two I blocked. I think I've only actually blocked like four, since few people really have them. I've also blocked the various Adoptables people had in their sigs.

Have you blocked mine too?

I hope you haven't blocked the Blessed one...

Anyone who blocks that needs a good krumpin'.

Everytime i see that guy i feel like using a lawn mower to shave his beard.

Anyone blocked my avatar? :'D

hmm, i need to get an annoying avatar purposly for this thread, also, i need to update my interests, theres not enough tau, or railguns.

You can block individual people's avatars? Nice

lord_blackfang wrote:You can block individual people's avatars? Nice

The power of Firefox is strong...

JohnHwangDD wrote:

lord_blackfang wrote:You can block individual people's avatars? Nice

The power of Firefox is strong...

but you must come to the internet explorer side, we have cookies

I've been having problems getting the .gif to work.

LiberatedObject wrote:I've been having problems getting the .gif to work.

come with me *holds out my hand* i have cookies that will let you use the .gif

Well, cookies ARE delicious.
I will see if IE will allow me. Firefox cookies go bad occasionally.

Nope...

erm, what cookies did you think i was talking about?

shas'o vera wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:

lord_blackfang wrote:You can block individual people's avatars? Nice

The power of Firefox is strong...

but you must come to the internet explorer side, we have cookies

I abandoned IE a long, long time ago.

But perhaps, there is another...

yes, theres one other, it is known as google chrome

shas'o vera wrote:erm, what cookies did you think i was talking about?

Chocolate chip remember my settings cookies.

oh, ok then, i am right, as always


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also, OT the funnyest animated avatar is probably the one that looks like a loading screen that says: attempting to give a damn.

I agree. Animated avatars are a pain in the butt.

I rather like mine, made in Adobe ImageReady. It's pretty easy in there, you can add or remove as many frames as you like, control rate of cycle on each frame, etc.

To be fair, I've had it forever... I think I'll make a new one some time.

Use GIMP.

It's free.

Subtle is the best way to go. Except, of course, for MGS's because it just wouldn't be Brian Blessed if it wasn't OTT.

I've turned avatars and signatures off as the heresy online ones kept setting off Chrome's malware detector.

You can make animated .gifs really easily in Photoshop or Flash. .gif is the way to go if you want your image to be animated. I'm happy with my static avatar though. Boreale is silently judging all of you, all the time.

Sadly, I didn't make the Dancing Black Mage. By this point, I don't remember where I found the little guy, but I've used him forever. I had to ask some folks I knew when I wanted to make a Christmas version.

Out of curiosity, anyone blocked the little guy?

Aduro wrote:Bah, I was hoping this was a thread to complain about the animated Avatars. Most of them have annoyed me enough that I've started Adblocking the ones I dislike, which is more than half that I've seen I believe. I find them too distracting in most cases.

Agree.

RaegMachine wrote:Have you blocked mine too?

Nope

MeanGreenStompa wrote:I hope you haven't blocked the Blessed one...

Nope

LunaHound wrote:Anyone blocked my avatar? :'D

Nope

chaplaingrabthar wrote:I agree. Animated avatars are a pain in the butt.

Yep

Kirbinator wrote:I rather like mine, made in Adobe ImageReady.

Yep

Gwar! wrote:Use GIMP.

It's free.

Nope

Sarrazon wrote:Out of curiosity, anyone blocked the little guy?

Nope

Gitkikka wrote:Subtle is the best way to go. Except, of course, for MGS's because it just wouldn't be Brian Blessed if it wasn't OTT.

Nope


In general, the ones I don't mind are the ones that pretty much just move in place, but remain the same colors. It's the ones that flash screens and change that I find to be too distracting. Mean Green Stompa's is probably right on the edge, but I think his is the first animated one I remember, and for some reason doesn't bother me.

What about my smexy avatar?

You're already listed in that post!

what about me? or am i going to go sulk in the corner of the thread as always?

You're Tau, sulking in the corner is all you're good for!

Aduro wrote:You're Tau, sulking in the corner is all you're good for!

correction, i sulk in a corner and fire all my railguns to kill everything, you can never be tau without railguns, the strongest weapons in the game, although they are a bit scarse when your from an exiled cadre.

I would hope neither of mine are blocked, being quite subtle.

OK I think I have got the basics sorted, now I too can annoy, although i have tried to keep it subtle. Maybe too subtle?

its subtle, too subtle *BANG* its suddenly too obvious, i prefered it when it was subtle.

How about a most annoying avatar thread?

I wonder if I could Gif together all 100 Kirbies into a slide show...

Aduro wrote:I wonder if I could Gif together all 100 Kirbies into a slide show...

You could, but it would probably end up being a massive file size

this ok?
Also how do i get it in my profile pic?

Hmm. Never really thought that my avatar might be annoying to anyone. Hope that's not the case.

I make my own animated avatars and emorkticons and such. Use Photoshop to make the individual frames, then convert it into a gif movie in ImageReady where I can control the frame times.

I just saved this recent one as a gif and made sure it was a small enough file size and it worked a charm.

Maybe I got the thread wrong, but it inspired me to get an animated avatar...hehe

Greets
Schepp himself

Gitkikka wrote:Subtle is the best way to go.

Absolutely. It's fun when someone actually notices...

<===== Distracting animated avatar

Darth Bob's is borderline psychotic and probably means... something...

He really should 'tone it down'.

Or, at the least, realize that it has long since reached its shelf date and move on?

I believe the word 'subtle' has been thrown around a bit in this thread.

Anywho...

Opinions will vary!

Alpharius wrote:Darth Bob's is borderline psychotic and probably means... something...

He really should 'tone it down'.

Or, at the least, realize that it has long since reached its shelf date and move on?

I believe the word 'subtle' has been thrown around a bit in this thread.

Anywho...

Opinions will vary!

At least it gives me a...presence on the forums . If the modquisition really wants me to change it I will...though I am a big fan of this avatar...so my question to you is was that a demand (of your modly powers) or a request?


P.S. First part of that post /sigged.

I would never abuse my 'power' as a Mod in such a fashion!

Do NOT consider that an 'official' request in any way whatsoever!

Alpharius wrote:I would never abuse my 'power' as a Mod in such a fashion!

Do NOT consider that an 'official' request in any way whatsoever!

Alright...still...let me ask everyone now. Is my avatar that much of a distraction? Would the community like me to change it? I understand it's...scary...but I've used it for a while and really wanted something unique, althought I suppose I could change it if you want.

I will not submit to plain ol' picture avatars though!

You have an avatar?

I'm *this* close to taking care of Gwar!'s avatar, abuse of power be damned!

And Darth, I think you'd get some bad news in a poll posing that question!

Alpharius wrote:I'm *this* close to taking care of Gwar!'s avatar, abuse of power be damned!

And Darth, I think you'd get some bad news in a poll posing that question!

I might just have to make said poll.......

Alpharius wrote:I'm *this* close to taking care of Gwar!'s avatar, abuse of power be damned!

And Darth, I think you'd get some bad news in a poll posing that question!

My Avatar is too Smexy to be dealt with.

All hail the Humping Fawcks!

In honor of this thread, I have replaced my avatar with a static one.

In honor of this thred, I still...well...can't get a .gif for an avatar. Dakka be damned!!!
@Darth Bob: I actually like it, don't change yet.
@Gwar: I actually find your avatar to be both scary and sweet at the same time.
Also, I personally never found an avatar too annoying. I mean, I might look for a few seconds, then I just scroll on.

Adblock on dakka ends up blocking several of the buttons, like Post, Quote, etc. So I have to disable it on dakka. But when it's disabled, I can't block images. I've ended up putting a lot of users on ignore to solve the problem.

GrimTeef wrote:Hmm. Never really thought that my avatar might be annoying to anyone. Hope that's not the case.

I've never found yours distracting, as it stays in one place and doesn't flash around. Somewhat disturbing yes, just not distracting.

I've had no problem with Adblock blocking out anything other than Ads and the specific individual's avatars that I want on Dakka.

I just want to say now... curse you Darth Bob. Creeped me out the first time the crazy dirty girl smiled at me.
I want to know where you find these.

And Darth Bob answers something I was curious about. If someone changes their Avatar the new one isn't blocked.

Aduro wrote:And Darth Bob answers something I was curious about. If someone changes their Avatar the new one isn't blocked.

oh rly? great, i um, ned to erm, find a new avatar *shifty eyes*

I've got a, erm, "bouncy" avatar that'd make most of the board seasick...

Assuming that bikinis are OK...

"bouncy"? what kind of bouncy?

If bikinis are OK, you'll see for yourself.

Well... Urm... I guess mine MIGHT be classed as annoying?

oh, ok

JohnHwangDD wrote:If bikinis are OK, you'll see for yourself.

I don't think I'll get seasick, by the sound of it.

Lovesick maybe >_>.

insaniak wrote:

Gitkikka wrote:Subtle is the best way to go.

Absolutely. It's fun when someone actually notices...

That cat .. just BLINKED!

ARGH!

lol

Darth Bob, don't change your avi.

I think I should pick another one, I have trouble telling if it actually moves...

Drk_Oblitr8r wrote:Darth Bob, don't change your avi.

I think I should pick another one, I have trouble telling if it actually moves...

I actually already changed the one we have been talking about this whole thread, though whether or not I changed it for the better (creepy-wise) is debateable.

Ohh, I though you were talking about the new one.

*facepalm* damn, why did i bother posting here?
ima go hide in a corner somwhere

@Darth Bob: I prefer the newer one. Not as annoying, but still has a nice fuzzy creepy factor.

Greets
Schepp himself

I know mine isn't animated but does anyone find mine disturbing (i'm asking because Sicarius is in desperate need of some botox or whatever)

Haven't had much time to get a proper avatar.

Mine isn't animated but I've still been told it's distracting. Can't win can you?

Yes you can!

Mine isn't animated and it isn't distracting, it's just great!

and hows my new one? is it annoying anyone yet?

since this thread is slowly turning into a "show your animated avatar...

M_Stress. I like the reference in your Avatar.

Howard A Treesong wrote:Mine isn't animated but I've still been told it's distracting. Can't win can you?

People only find that avatar distracting because they say she seems to be contemplating something. But like you said before, it is just Lara Croft enjoying an Ice Lolly.

Tim the Biovore wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:Mine isn't animated but I've still been told it's distracting. Can't win can you?

People only find that avatar distracting because they say she seems to be contemplating something. But like you said before, it is just Lara Croft enjoying an Ice Lolly.

Huh. I always thought it was a corndog.

Google's adblock is darned good. Just click on something and then block it.

Personally I blocked Darth Bob's and Gwar's.

Vladsimpaler wrote:Google's adblock is darned good. Just click on something and then block it.

Personally I blocked Darth Bob's and Gwar's.

Aww, you're no fun.

DarkHound wrote:

Vladsimpaler wrote:Google's adblock is darned good. Just click on something and then block it.

Personally I blocked Darth Bob's and Gwar's.

Aww, you're no fun.

Hey man, not all of us want to see a pelvis-thrusting furry every time he posts.

Kilkrazy wrote:Yes you can!

Mine isn't animated and it isn't distracting, it's just great!

...its a can...



AWESOME!

Ultra mortalitas wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:Yes you can!

Mine isn't animated and it isn't distracting, it's just great!

...its a can...



AWESOME!

A Can of Bottled Water no less!

I can't block them, it jusy says "block images from dakkadakka.com"

Drk_Oblitr8r wrote:I can't block them, it jusy says "block images from dakkadakka.com"

fail

Cheese Elemental wrote:

DarkHound wrote:

Vladsimpaler wrote:Google's adblock is darned good. Just click on something and then block it.

Personally I blocked Darth Bob's and Gwar's.

Aww, you're no fun.

Hey man, not all of us want to see a pelvis-thrusting furry every time he posts.

hey, guys, who are you talking about?

shas'o vera wrote:hey, guys, who are you talking about?

There talking about Gwar!

i changed mine to something better to look at (and it fits my rank )

damn snipers, the tau troops are better than they are

Hmm. Since my original question has now been quite simply answered (use an animated gif!) the much more interesting question of who has the best, most annoying avatar etc prompts me to think: How about a poll or competition? Categories could include best homemade, best themed, most silly, most memorable, most missed etc. What do you think?


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Prizes could be an "award" to put in your sig?

Drk_Oblitr8r wrote:I can't block them, it jusy says "block images from dakkadakka.com"

If you have Chrome, you can do ctrl+shift+K and then a little thing pops up. You can then click on whatever you want to block. (For instance, Gwar's weird furry avatar)

Then you click "block it" on the little pop up and it's gone!

Gwar! wrote:Use GIMP.

It's free.

2nd Gimp. Just started using it and I like it a lot

shas'o vera wrote:damn snipers, the tau troops are better than they are

yes but.......melee.


'nuff said.

oh yeah? you seen to have forgot comander farsight.

shas'o vera wrote:oh yeah? you seen to have forgot comander farsight.

Don't know what his stats are. if you could even have him in your army.

don't care.

it is still 'nuff said


lets stay on topic ok?

Yeh, I suggest if you are going to argue, take it to PM.

in honour of this thread I got an avatar which moves.

Also thanks to GWAR mentioning gimp I figured out how to resize it so it would move..

Does no one use Opera? Adblock built in, can download lists for it, can rightclick a page and click "block content" then select exactly what you want dead. Has an IRC and email client built in and has a whole lot of other nice features. Oh, and it's rather lightweight.

Firefox has that too, except you don't have to have the IRC Client if you don't want it and can add so much more.

Personally I enjoy Gwar!'s little humping fox-thing. There's a bit of cognitive dissonance between that image and a lot of his posts, which really entertains me.

General Mayhem wrote:Hmm. Since my original question has now been quite simply answered (use an animated gif!) the much more interesting question of who has the best, most annoying avatar etc prompts me to think: How about a poll or competition? Categories could include best homemade, best themed, most silly, most memorable, most missed etc. What do you think?


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Prizes could be an "award" to put in your sig?

Well, malfred's old manpurse avatar is clearly most missed.

Aduro wrote:

Darth Bob wrote:Awwww Aduro you haven't blocked mine have you D: . I've gotten so many compliments on the incredibly disturbing clown-thingy that is my avatar .

But I didn't make my avatar, I found it on the web. If you want to find an animated avatar, just google animated avatars or .gif avatars and something should come up.

Yours and the "Boom Headshot" one were the first two I blocked. I think I've only actually blocked like four, since few people really have them. I've also blocked the various Adoptables people had in their sigs.

OK how about this for a challenge. Animate one (or more) of your minis to reflect your current online "rank".
Any takers?

I'll do it when I've finished my Space Pope model.

General Mayhem wrote:OK how about this for a challenge. Animate one (or more) of your minis to reflect your current online "rank".
Any takers?

not me. it already does without animation.

I sadly do not own any WHFB models, otherwise I would animate the Ye OldeTrolle Kinge :(

Speaking of ye Olde Trolle, I preferred your "Gwar aged 9" avatar, even if it wasn't animated. Anyway, I'm off to give it a go.


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OK so it took me all day, and the demo charge is a bit meh, but it's here! Demo charging drop trooper takes out deamon prince (and himself at the same time).

I quite like it

Watching the deamon prince "doing a twirl" gives me an idea. For P&M blogs, show off threads etc do an animated gif to show a 360 view of your model(s). No sneaking off to do it now (it is valentines after all) but I have an idea this could really add something extra without too much bother. Oh well, next time..

This thread is great - now I can find all the annoying avatars in one thread! *blockblockblock*

*animated plevic thrust towards The Dreadnote*
oh yeah? you cant block the thrusting trooper

The Dreadnote wrote:This thread is great - now I can find all the annoying avatars in one thread! *blockblockblock*

Cmon man you know you want an animated gif

shas'o vera wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:

lord_blackfang wrote:You can block individual people's avatars? Nice

The power of Firefox is strong...

but you must come to the internet explorer side, we have cookies

the internet's symbol is borin' the fox rox man
that is really gay


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Aduro wrote:I wonder if I could Gif together all 100 Kirbies into a slide show...

that would be awsome

I mgoth try an animated one, it could work, unfortuantely my rank and username contradice, tbh i wish that i'd chosen a username that wasn't dedicated to a single army :(.

The Dreadnote wrote:This thread is great - now I can find all the annoying avatars in one thread! *blockblockblock*

-Edited for language. Keep it civil, folks.-

im changing my avitar right now so it moves...


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why wont my avitar move!!!!!!!!it's making me mad i cant figure it out!
can someone help

I had a few problems to start with. I found that checking pixel size was important (120 x 120 pixels max)
I am now trying to do bigger animated gifs of models.
Not sure it will work but here goes,,




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ok so thata not moving.. back to the editing suite? or is it a limit of the dakka site (it didn't move in my gallery but it was uploaded as an animation)

General Mayhem, that image is a jpeg. That's why it isn't moving.

I created a .gif to upload to my gallery. Do they get changed to jpegs if you select auto adjust?
cheers

shas'o vera wrote:*animated plevic thrust towards The Dreadnote*
oh yeah? you cant block the thrusting trooper

First: Stormtroopers are always acceptable animation material.

Second: Ultra mortalitas wins the thread.

Third: Someone edit me this to less than 120px, and we'll talk.

Seek and ye shall receive!

I really want to get hold of the GIF with the Finnish disco dancing couple - Ake Blomqvist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwakjoSs754

A friend of mine had a GIF of it as his sig - was riotously funny.

Much obliged. But I think I'll stick with the non-moving pics.

filbert wrote:I really want to get hold of the GIF with the Finnish disco dancing couple - Ake Blomqvist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwakjoSs754

A friend of mine had a GIF of it as his sig - was riotously funny.

Similar to this

I'd love to animate mine into having spittle and expletives flying out of Capaldi's mouth, would make it more lifelike don't you think? Oh, and Darth Bob: Thanks.

can someone teach me how to animate my avatar

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+animate+a+gif

Whats the thoughts on my new one?

It's not related to Japanese or monkeys.

typhus wrote:Whats the thoughts on my new one?

it is annoying so you achieved part the topics goal...At least i think so.

To The Dreadnote:

I rather stay to a non-moving one too.

I'm sticking with non moving for now, but I will be changing back to a tau with the obamicon color scheme once I hit 2000 posts (and hopefully, a new title, which means the sig has to change too.)

LunaHound wrote:Everytime i see that guy i feel like using a lawn mower to shave his beard.

Anyone blocked my avatar? :'D

Many of them I must admit.

Got a reply re: animated gifs in personal galleries:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/279329.page#1338169
Looks like the limit is 120 pixels max. Still an interesting challenge to do something creative within that (admittedly tiny) frame.

Just popin in with the marching captain, not mine but had it forever

thanks for the help

For anyone interested in doing this for themselves I have put together a little article here:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/User:General%20Mayhem#animate_your_personal_avatar
I hope this works OK (first time article, bit of a leaning curve for me too!)

General Mayhem wrote:For anyone interested in doing this for themselves I have put together a little article here:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/User:General%20Mayhem#animate_your_personal_avatar
I hope this works OK (first time article, bit of a leaning curve for me too!)

Thanks for the help. Here is the one i did for practice.

Thanks for the help. Here is the one i did for practice.

It works if you click on it. It loads into a browser page. Dakka has restrictions on displaying animations in posts in case someone slips in a naughty, as clarified by lgoburner, above.
Not sure how Gwar and Dreadnote posted their animations.

Upload to imageshack/photobucket then use the [img] tage

Gwar! wrote:Upload to imageshack/photobucket then use the [img] tage

85% of the time someone puts a image from those sites i cant even see it.

It is this reason why i hate those websites.

That's your works fault. Lrn2proxy

Gwar! wrote:Upload to imageshack/photobucket then use the [img] tage

85% of the time someone puts a image from those sites i cant even see it.

It is this reason why i hate those websites.

General Mayhem: Looks like you have to make a new avatar.

Ultra mortalitas wrote:

General Mayhem: Looks like you have to make a new avatar.

A hardened veteran no less, How does a suicide bomber get to be a veteran

Lots of bionic bits, presumably...

I kind of miss Darth Bob's avatar. Glad I saved it at the time... now to set it as my wife's screen saver and hide her I/O bits!

Amusingly, I always scroll to the right at work so avatars don't show, so they never really bother me. Sigs, on the other hand, got blocked as soon as that functionality was available.

General Mayhem wrote:Ultra mortalitas wrote:

General Mayhem: Looks like you have to make a new avatar.

A hardened veteran no less, How does a suicide bomber get to be a veteran

Hmmm... Ranking system for imperial guardsmen players fail.

Sorry for the double post. (how the hell did that happen?)