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Gratuitus Icon Post
« on: March 23, 2004, 04:39:11 PM »
<---"I drank THIS much!!!!"


I Just had to try out my new avatar....
Oh, and while I'm at it I think we should get more icon space on amiga.org. It was kind of hard to fit this anim into 16k, however not nearly as hard as fitting it into the 6k aw.net gives you.

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Re: Gratuitus Icon Post
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2004, 09:50:06 PM »
nice! i dont have an avatar... i suck

i am making one though...

itll prolly suck
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Re: Gratuitus Icon Post
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2004, 09:51:28 PM »
i used to have a decepticon symbol, that was pretty cool i dont know what happened to it though. :-?
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Re: Gratuitus Icon Post
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2004, 12:13:05 AM »
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i used to have a decepticon symbol, that was pretty cool i dont know what happened to it though. :-?


Decepticons rule! :-D

It probably got lost during one of the updates.
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Re: Gratuitus Icon Post
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2004, 01:36:20 AM »
<-- Animated avatars rock....

/me hides to avoid beating for terrible pun...

@Vincent

That little ranting dude in your tagline still makes me chuckle, even after all this time!
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Re: Gratuitus Icon Post
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2004, 02:10:35 AM »
@Karlos

I like the freaky lighting effect in your last two avatars, wish I could figure out how to do that kind of stuff.
 

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Re: Gratuitus Icon Post
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2004, 02:29:21 AM »
Cheers dude :-)

As for the lighting, it's basically done using nothing more sophisticated than a circular gradient fill, the kind I'm sure we've all have played with in DPaint :-)

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This turned into a Karlos' "How to..." :lol:

I have one such circular fill for the background, which doesn't change from frame to frame.

Then on top of that I put whatever sillouette (spelling?) moving, in this case, weebl a character from my fave webcomic.

Lastly I put another fill over the top, exactly aligned with the background. This one has transparency - opaque in the centre and transparent at the edge.

This one only occurs in some frames and the idea is to make it appear when the bright spot in the backround gets uncovered by the moving object. Just for a bit of extra detail, I shrink it over a frame or two as the background bright spot is eclipsed. Overall, it's supposed to give an impression of a lensflare glowy type thing (excuse the gratuitous technical terminology :lol: )

The arse is fitting it into 16000 bytes, but since these images essentially use a faily basic light to dark palette, I get away with it by reducing the colours (only 48 in this gif).
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Re: Gratuitus Icon Post
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2004, 03:31:53 AM »
@Karlos

Thanks dude...might have to give it a go...sadly I'm not the artistic type all my drawings in primary school were in greyled, just the way I like it, grey...ha ha...;-)
 

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Re: Gratuitus Icon Post
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2004, 03:38:36 AM »
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@Karlos

Thanks dude...might have to give it a go...sadly I'm not the artistic type all my drawings in primary school were in greyled, just the way I like it, grey...ha ha...;-)


Yes, I know *just* what you mean. I added a splash of colour to appease the regular homo sapiens...:lol:

*notices something behind the 1200T*

Oooooh, a box of fusioncrackers....

Muhahahahaaaa.....

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Aw crap, this batch are from some Russian source. Just tried one and it was a dud :-(
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Re: Gratuitus Icon Post
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2004, 04:01:39 AM »
@Karlos

 :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:

...forgot all about the fusioncrackers...hahahahahahahaaaaa...cough...excuse me
 

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Re: Gratuitus Icon Post
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2004, 04:05:07 AM »
Well, I have a knack of remembering obscure things long after they stopped being funny to most other people ;-)
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Re: Gratuitus Icon Post
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2004, 01:45:39 PM »
@Adz

*strange glassed over eyes*

I love the simpsons. I love the simpsons. I love the simpsons. I love the simpsons. I love the simpsons....
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Re: Gratuitus Icon Post
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2004, 11:23:47 PM »
Ahhh...you noticed my pathetic attempt at humour...

I was messing with animated gifs, trying to make an animated bouncing boing ball, obviously it didn't go so well.
 

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Re: Gratuitus Icon Post
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2004, 11:26:26 PM »
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Well, I have a knack of remembering obscure things long after they stopped being funny to most other people ;-)


Oh well, you can't please everyone...still makes me laugh though...


Kewl, that makes 600 :pint:
 

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Re: Gratuitus Icon Post
« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2004, 11:48:04 PM »
:lol:

So what was wrong with the bouncing ball? The biggest problem I usually end up with is fitting the animation into the size limit...
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