Animated personal avatars

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**insaniak**

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

**General Mayhem**

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

**Ultra mortalitas**

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

**The Dreadnote**

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.

**Gwar!**

Seek and ye shall receive!

**filbert**

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.

**The Dreadnote**

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

**filbert**

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

**Kveldulv**

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.

**jetjetex**

can someone teach me how to animate my avatar

**Kilkrazy**

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

**typhus**

Whats the thoughts on my new one?

**Kilkrazy**

It's not related to Japanese or monkeys.

**Ultra mortalitas**

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.

**chaplaingrabthar**

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.)

**Neconilis**

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.

**General Mayhem**

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.

**fire4effekt**

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

**jetjetex**

thanks for the help

**General Mayhem**

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!)

**Ultra mortalitas**

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.

**General Mayhem**

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.

**Gwar!**

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

**Ultra mortalitas**

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.

**Gwar!**

That's your works fault. Lrn2proxy

**Ultra mortalitas**

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.

**General Mayhem**

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

**insaniak**

Lots of bionic bits, presumably...

**Wehrkind**

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.

**Ultra mortalitas**

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?)