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Re: The New Fangled Avatar Factory & Bar

David I have a challenge for you if you're up to it.

Using this mushroom cloud:
http://andrearf.files.wordpress.com/...-explosion.jpg

Can you insert Dave the Barbarian's head:
http://tdmedianet.com/showcontent/DC...ian_i/lead.jpg

And add the word "Bejabbers!" (without the quotes of course) to make a new avatar which is the correct size for this forum and a second one that is 200x200?

I would greatly appreciate it if you are able to.

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Annette, looks like you missed s step.. you saved as a .jpg not a gif and as such could not turn the pink corners transparent.. No worries, I grabbed your sample and gave it 'ye old treatment' added a color background, gave the guy some 'shadows' to enhance his beauty, errr I mean his rugged gruffy look befitting of Sarge. ;)

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...ais/Sarge1.gif

Cheers! :)

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MUCH better, thank you!

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PE Shang.. here is what I managed..

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...is/PElect1.png

and the avatar version..

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...is/PElect2.gif

Cheers! :)

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:bow::shock::clap::bow:

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Awesome! I think Tim should take that one. Lincoln's cool, too.

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Thanks David. I have claimed this one. Too cool!

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David,

Here's the zipped file of random avatars for you to work your magic. Thanks!:)

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Those are really sweet DG. :)

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No time to do anything too fancy this morning, but here is a quicky.

Edit:
Adding an alternative with a simple background.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by David E. Gervais (Post 633196)

Here are those 8 others I mentioned...

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2.../SGames017.gif

Okay I got all those other ones uploaded.........except for the one above. If you check it out you'll figure out why. :poke::p

Re: The New Fangled Avatar Factory & Bar

Dear Mindi,.. everything looks fine to me.. try 'refreshing' your browser. it might be something wrong with your cache.

LoL.. didn't you know all artists are a bit dislexic? I'm just more clever at covering up than most :P

Too Funny!

Cheers! :)

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Atrists are a bit dsylexic? You dotn say!

:angel

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David, if you are inclined to try your hand with Dominions 3 graphics, you can download every single unit sprite from this thread. It has both normal and attack sprites for every unit as of version 3.17. And since there were 2082 units as of version 3.17, there's quite a bit to choose from... :D

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Edi, While unit sprites are abundant, I usualy try to make avatars with things like 'event pics' GUI items etc. If the Dom3 fans want to hash out a ton of Dom3 avatars they are more than welcome. Personally I think it would be overkill.. I avoided this type thing in the Space Empires threads way back when I made over 1000 avatars.

If people have their favorites and want an avatar, they can post the source image here and I'll pprocess it.

Cheers! :}

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Hey, didn't mean you have any obligation or anything. Just linking a potential source. :)

Anything Dom3-themed would probably be sprite-related, since it has a very limited number of other graphics.

You have done an amazing job with all the other stuff and I really like the style of the avatars you do. It's phenomenal. You put a crapload of work into it and I truly appreciate it. My own tinkering with the AoW images to get the unit portrait and hero portrait galleries is small potatoes compared to you, but it has given me a picture of just how much work is involved.

There's a couple of the Dom3 sprites that could be good fodder. I'll take a look and post them later. :)

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http://koti.welho.com/ehalttun/Image...s/icon_eek.gif http://koti.welho.com/ehalttun/Image...s/icon_eek.gif

That's awesome! Those are absolutely spectacular! Thank you!

I think Kristoffer O might very well take the angel one, he used to have that as his avatar before the forum change. :)

Do you happen to have a blank background, so if you posted that, we could try to do more of these together with the frame?

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Nah! I had the harbinger before. Proclaiming the arrival of dom3 or dom2 or whatever. Buer will do nice now.

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Krisoffer O, I processed your 'Buer' pet...

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...is/Buer001.gif

Cheers! :)

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Nice. Buer, the Goat Sun, bows in appreciation.

:)

Hmm, can you make something nice from Johan K's fat toad as well? A swamp in the background perhaps.

I don't know what unit nbr it has, but I think he would be quite happy if it was animated with the 'toad burp' throat.

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I think I can, I think I can...

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2.../JohanK001.gif http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2.../JohanK002.gif

Well? did I? Did I? (made a panaramic mini poster to go with it.. it's just to show the full background, in case there were doubts it was a swamp.)

Cheers! :)

Soz, not planning on doing too many animated gifs.

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Somebody poke Double_Deuce I made him a new avatar..

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/DDuce001.gif

Cheers! :)

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I couldn't resist the fun, I DEG'ed my avatar too

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Here's a silly little avatar using DG's "S" Shrapnel logo icon that he posted in the other thread. Seems that Shrapnel blue goes well with Ulmish blue. :)

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Ohhh! You should try that on one of the Ulmish Black Knights perhaps, or their Guardians, something with a little flash. ;) Though I guess Guardians lack a shield, would look like some sort of demented Superman fanboys. :p

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some people seem to be 'resizing' the 64x64 overlay (or their avatars) and the result is some weird artifacting and otherwise frame distortions. I am not planning to make any 80x80 avatars, but here is a 'Clean' 80x80 Overlay .png with alpha channel. Use it at your leisure.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2.../Overlay80.png

Cheers! :)

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Hi kind David sir. :)
Could you please "fix" my avatar as well? I would be very grateful.

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Hi Dedas, it didn't need much fixing,.. I just slipped a background under it,. slightly shifted the butterfly, resized, placed the overlay, saved as gif, loaded it into gif movie gear to set the transparency, saved, uploaded to my photobucket account and posted it here.. a simple 5 min opperation.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...ais/Dedas1.gif

I hope it meets your standards, Cheers! :)

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Is that background image from the default Windows XP wallpaper? ;) (scnr)

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Thank you so much David! You're the man! :)

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Quote:

Originally Posted by lch (Post 634561)

Is that background image from the default Windows XP wallpaper? ;) (scnr)

Hehe... yeah of course! :)

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lol, sometimes a good fitting background is staring you in the face. LoL

.. Actually I did a google image search for "blue wallpaper" I used one of the thumbnails that appeared on the first page of results.

It probably is a windows wallpaper, weather or not it's the default one I have no idea.. I don't have a wallpaper on my comp, and iirc way back when I installed windows XP Home I think the default wallpaper was green grass hills and a blue cloudy sky.

Cheers! :)