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[Psrdirector]

I think this is the best place for this, who here uses custom avatars, I mean really custom, not a screen shoot you cut your self but one you made your self from the ground up, my old one was semi origanol, new one I just made today, every pixle.

Does any one else do this, and if you do how do you make them and how good do you think yours is.


Ive made a few for me and my friends, they arnt on this forum so you wont see theres, but they are really amatures, look at mine. I use gimp, since it is the first thing I used and is the one i got used to.

I tried using paint and another program, but they didnt work out.

[netrider6]

Paint is evil.…

[Loyal]

I'm currently making one. It's an animated .gif of a lightsaber-y battle... Only problem is the 100x100 pixel size limit... -_-;;

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

I made mine, every pixel by every pixel i created it. Took friggin forever, but it was worth it!

I used te very program i post in my sig. GraphicsGale.

[Psrdirector]

graphic gale was the other one i used. But i didnt want to learn a new program so i didnt use it much. Yes paint is evil, i dont think its very good for sprite creation. Gimp is good if you take the time to learn it, or that could be me trying not to sound like a fool stuck on a bad system.

I wanted to make a active sprite but dont have programs

[The Dark Mage]

Paint is most certainly evil.. thank you for showing me graphic gale!

[Elmer J.]

I made mine, every pixel by every pixel i created it. Took friggin forever, but it was worth it!

I used te very program i post in my sig. GraphicsGale.
Dammit, that's not available for macs.
I've been getting frustrated with my avi, so this would be nice to fool around with.
Do you know of a mac version or equivalent?

[Fenris]

Mine's semi-original. I chose the poses and animated it myself. My first one, the White Mage of Death, was made mostly by me. The only thing I didn't make was the White Mage Sprite.

[ApathyMan]

How dare anyone talk down on the great and glorious MS Paint!!! Every comic, avatar, and sprite I've made was done through that wonderful program. Sure, it doesn't have any flair, but by God it gets the job done.

But to get on topic... My avatars usually involve one of my [hevily] modified FFI Sprites and a resized picture. However, to not seem completely devoid of some degree of artistic style, all of my backgrounds in my mediocre comic strip are wholly handmade.

[Skyshot]

You have a mediocre comic strip as well? I haven't seen that one.

My avatar was spliced, recolored, and subpixelated (note: labor intensive and time-consuming) all in Paint. The starfield background (on the current one, at least) was also put in avatar form by Paint.

[Loyal]

GraphicsGale is indeed nice for most of the time... But for a program designed mainly for sprites, it can't resize worth crap (Where the frell is the menu that I must go to Paint to use!)...

Also, I agree with Skyshot on the "What mediocre comic?" bit. Show us!

[Rhyos]

Mine is a custom from WAAAAAAY back when. If anyone remembers Tweek I'll be very impressed. Unless it's Shiny, DarthZeth, teh RaiRai, etc. :thief:

[iddqd]

Made mine in Photoshop 7. Pirating CS is a pain in the ass... even if you do get it to install, all the essential keyboard hotkeys (such as Ctrl+Z for undo, Ctrl++ or -- for zooming in and out, etc) don't work. I just gave up on it eventually, and went back to 7. Hm... I also made this one for xtremesystems.org:
http://img189.echo.cx/img189/1386/catavatar0hi.jpg
edit: ack, bad compression!
http://img102.echo.cx/img102/5176/catavatar2gp.gif

[The Dark Mage]

Yea, I just got CS yesterday.. hola crap its amazing but it was a hassle.

[Psrdirector]

Ive read apathy mans comic, he had a thread about it long time ago, wow me sayins something from long time ago. hahaha. i think it was after my banishment.

Just a question, what do you think of my avatar, and if you remeber my old one do you think it is better or worse

[EVILNess]

I made the avatars that I used to use before the one I have now. (10 point if you can tell who it is!)

The rotating Ness that flipped you off, I made that in paint and some GIF animator I found on the internet.

And before that I had a hand-sprited Evil Space Monkey Overlord (tm) that I also did in paint. My biggest complaint is that his head looks kinda weird.

I miss my rotating-obsene Ness, but I accidently deleted it... *sniff