Avatar for me?

[mmmdreg]

anyone want to do me a good 'tar?

[Mr. Anderson]

what are you looking for?

[mac15]

mmmmm mmmm its mmmdreg

something mcdonalds and a mac :D

[ArtMan617]

I'm willing to do something...just give me some ideas about what you want...you can e-mail me at ArtMan617@hotmail.com or atArtMan617@mac.com (although the mac.com account may not be around much longer...damn you .mac!).

-ArtMan617

[mmmdreg]

Originally posted by mac15
mmmmm mmmm its mmmdreg

something mcdonalds and a mac :D

goodish idea...I odn't have much of an imagination here so just something cool-looking will be fine I guess

[King Cobra]

Basically, if you want to find the right avatar, find whatever you have a passion/fondness for in the form of a picture and place it as your avatar. I basically said this to asurace, when he had no idea what to use with his avatar. Look at mine and mc68k's 'tar. We represent something about our user names on the forums for an avatar. It's not a bad idea at all.

BTW, way to go on 500. :cool:

[Hemingray]

Hey, you could do something with the old Sesame Street monsters "M" song... or not... :D

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by mmmdreg

goodish idea...I odn't have much of an imagination here so just something cool-looking will be fine I guess

something cool? its just like art and very subjective - what's cool is a matter of personal taste.

are there any on the forums now you like or don't like - thats a good start. also, what does you name stand for?

D

[Durandal7]

Another good place to start is what you do on your mac. I do graphics work and listen to music a lot on mine hence the iTunes avatar.

[mmmdreg]

Originally posted by dukestreet


are there any on the forums now you like or don't like - thats a good start. also, what does you name stand for?

D
Well I like yours and ALemon's old dancing chicken...as well as a few others...I like it simple but elegant..and my name doesn't stand for anything...

[ArtMan617]

what are your interests? What do you feel would best represent you? Do you play videogames? Etc. Etc. Etc.

-ArtMan617

[Mr. Anderson]

Its related to Apple, its classy, and no ones used it

[vitruvius]

here it is, the perfect image for mmmdrag...

oh.. wait a minute... it says DREG :eek:

, well ...what a hell



:p (just kidding)

[Mr. Anderson]

looking around apple this morning, i realized they had a bunch more interesting icons

quartz extreme

[Mr. Anderson]

connect anywhere

[Mr. Anderson]

and jaguar - these are all transparent gifs, btw

all of these are actually really nice icons/avatars and with a little playing around you could animate them nicely - make the sphere's in connect anywhere change color or some such thing....

D

[vitruvius]

Hey Dreg thats a nice one, i love that dancing spidey , the animation is really great, can u put it a little bigger? or is it in the size limit of the 'tar?

[mmmdreg]

Originally posted by vitruvius
Hey Dreg thats a nice one, i love that dancing spidey , the animation is really great, can u put it a little bigger? or is it in the size limit of the 'tar?

It came at 150*150 or something and i put it down to 40*40 to keep under the space limit (20k)...Because i didn't know if there was a way of doing it otherwise...

I think I'll go and get an icon from somewhere and use that...spidey up for grabs..

[Geert]

Should start posting more often again..
There are indeed nice icons to use from the Apple site.

[Joshlew]

How do you get an Avatar?

Do you have to be a Macrumors 'Demi-God' or something?
Help , I'm confused!!!!:( :confused:

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by Geert
Should start posting more often again..
There are indeed nice icons to use from the Apple site.

Yeah, that's what I thought, they are pretty slick and they'd be a great 'tar. Who ever wants them can take them. I had to work them a bit to get them as transparent gifs.

Joshlew, you need to have 500 posts to get an avatar - or win won of the avatar contests, but the contests won't be done again for 5 more months or even a year, depending on if we do one sooner or not.

D

[Geert]

Originally posted by dukestreet

Yeah, that's what I thought, they are pretty slick and they'd be a great 'tar.

Apple puts a lot of effort in designing icons, they are always incredibly nice.

[Mr. Anderson]

I can't think of any members with Q in their name, but that quartz extreme icon is just screaming to be used.

D

[Durandal7]

Originally posted by dukestreet
Its related to Apple, its classy, and no ones used it
Yea, but if he used that one all the disgruntled .mac e-mail people would start flaming him :rolleyes:

[Mr. Anderson]

which icon are you talking about, or all of them in general?

taft uses a modified version of an apple icon - color manager or some such, not sure.

D

[Durandal7]

Originally posted by dukestreet
which icon are you talking about, or all of them in general?

taft uses a modified version of an apple icon - color manager or some such, not sure.

D
I forgot that attachment don't show up in quotes. I meant the iTools logo avatar that you made, first one I think.

As for that one guy, to get an avatar you have to post 500 times.

[mmmdreg]

Originally posted by dukestreet
and jaguar - these are all transparent gifs, btw

all of these are actually really nice icons/avatars and with a little playing around you could animate them nicely - make the sphere's in connect anywhere change color or some such thing....

D

Can anyone be bothered to do exactly this? It would look pretty cool IMO

[Mr. Anderson]

just get image read up and rolling and play around with it, its not too hard.

another Icon that I didn't do anything with this the radar screen with iMacs on it, it would be really cool to animated that one.

D

[mmmdreg]

what program is used to animate them?

[Ensign Paris]

I would try using ImageReady (http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/) or GifBuilder.

Ensign

[Geert]

tttyaah, must have $$ for PS and IR.
Have tried to get me a demo ;) but they don't seem to be working.

[vitruvius]

i made this one, i hope youll like it :)

nice how mmm looks similar to www when you turn it 180 degrees

[Mr. Anderson]

all the avatars i've created - we're talking quite a few, 40+ by now - have been done in photoshop and image ready. However the first time around, before I even knew image ready I would use gifBuilder - which is share ware and works great - here's one of my old animated gifs I did 4 years ago - rendered in 3D by stratastudio pro and then converted over to a gif using photoshop and gifBuilder - it was before image ready was available.

D

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by vitruvius
i made this one, i hope youll like it :)

nice how mmm looks similar to www when you turn it 180 degrees

ha, mmm - from your sig?

nice, looks really good. the sphere the earth? looks almost planet like - or just a marbly metalic ball?

ah, it stops in front so you can read it? maybe add an ease in and ease out so its not so jerky, when I first looked at it I thought the animation was skipping/stalling.

D

[vitruvius]

Originally posted by dukestreet


ha, mmm - from your sig?

nice, looks really good. the sphere the earth? looks almost planet like - or just a marbly metalic ball?

ah, it stops in front so you can read it? maybe add an ease in and ease out so its not so jerky, when I first looked at it I thought the animation was skipping/stalling.

D

its in the size limit (19.4bytes) so i dont think i can add more frames, i tried to make the rotation smoother but i get files bigger. and yes, its quite basic, but it stops so you can read it.

thx for the revision;)

[Mr. Anderson]

well, one thing you can do is reduce the colors - could give you more frames, but you might have to make the sphere a solid color, it would take some tweaking, regardless.

but don't get me wrong, these are my own personal opinions, its still a good tar - now you have to work on getting the several hundred more posts to show it off! :D

[mmmdreg]

I just used a Mozilla replacement for the time being...dukestreet, do you think you could do a cool animated thing like that but more simple?

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by mmmdreg
I just used a Mozilla replacement for the time being...dukestreet, do you think you could do a cool animated thing like that but more simple?

nice choice of 'tar mmmdreg - what sort of animation are you talking about?

[mmmdreg]

Originally posted by dukestreet


nice choice of 'tar mmmdreg - what sort of animation are you talking about?

I dunno...do you have any other old ones I could compare?

[mac15]

hey dreg may I make you an avatar?

I would love to, I haven't done a tar for ages

[mmmdreg]

Originally posted by mac15
hey dreg may I make you an avatar?

I would love to, I haven't done a tar for ages as many as you want :)..just as long as it doesnt have a flag in it :P...

[Zenith]

This thread is about to be the second avatar contest on the macrumors.com forums! :p

Anyway, I would love to make a 'tar for you too dreg. I really like to make 'tars, but right now I'm very busy with some web design work... :(

It looks like you've got enough to choose from already, though... ;)

[Mr. Anderson]

I'll make a bet with you that the second contest really heats up - now that there are more members and so many people saw what you can come up with.

I'm thinking it will be in Novemeber or December.

D

[vitruvius]

here's another proposal i made, ill hope u like it:)

-by the way Duke: is the avatar size and weight fixed in vBulletin? or maybe in the future we can expect the possibility of have bigger and longer 'tars

[Mr. Anderson]

nice stuff vitruvius - I've been playing around with a new qtvr app I found
CubicQTVR - you ever heard of it? It make 360° hor/vert qtvrs - very cool stuff - you can find the app on the apple quicktime page - check it out -
its called MakeCubic

here's a test render I did yesterday, canned models, rendered in Lightwave - I'm going to work on the link/navigation aspects today or tomorrow with some of my own stuff.

http://www.dukestreet.com/ss0.mov

D

[vitruvius]

Originally posted by dukestreet
nice stuff vitruvius - I've been playing around with a new qtvr app I found
CubicQTVR - you ever heard of it? It make 360° hor/vert qtvrs - very cool stuff - you can find the app on the apple quicktime page - check it out -
its called MakeCubic

here's a test render I did yesterday, canned models, rendered in Lightwave - I'm going to work on the link/navigation aspects today or tomorrow with some of my own stuff.

http://www.dukestreet.com/ss0.mov

D

wow! thats nice very "atmospheric" feeling, is it a free App?, where exactly in Apples website did u find it? ( by the way, have u played Myst3 Exile? the interface its based exactly in the CubicVR, it has a very nice renders) what kind of material do u produce in lightwave to create a CubicVR (ahh i forgot, this morning i get myself a copy of LightWave 7.5 and im starting to learn how to use it, it has kind of weird interface, i guest it comes from the Amiga days-im right?-but very powerfull as i see)

[Mr. Anderson]

lightwave is really nice - I've been using it for 3-4 years now. You just got a copy eh? Well, I've just figured out how to do the basics with the CubicQTVR - there are ways to make it better. I'll make a sample scene that you can use if you want - although I'm going to tweek it a bit later to get better results.

Right now I've got it making 6 images, one for each side of the cube, but if you render 24 images - 2x2 on each side, paste them together to make 6 images, the distortion is significantly less - I think. Thats another test.

I've got a really old animation I did in Lightwave online - www.flossgordon.com - try the big one if you can - its better.

I'll find the link and post it for you.

D

[Mr. Anderson]

here's the link - its near the bottom of the page - I figured this might be better than the actual link because of all the other stuff they have there. Something else might be of interest to you. Good luck and post something when you get it done -

D

http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/

[vitruvius]

hey thx Duke, i found it ( did you saw the hotspot tutorial?,it seems a nice feature) i saw your Floss Gordon Movie, and was nice, i loved the text (well is basically text isnt it?) i loved the punch line: in space... no one can hear u floss...
great, my mom is a Pediatric Dentist so im fell identified with that subject.

well this comments are far away from the original 'tar subject but what a H3ll!:)

[Mr. Anderson]

I had too much work to do today to try and figure out the hotspot tutorial - I'll get around to that soon - but, yes, it does have a great potential - I look forward to using it. Let me know if you get anything uploaded, I'd love to see it.

As for FlossGordon - well, its been an on going project - eventually I'll have a little more than a teaser trailer up - I hope sometime in the near future.

Too many ideas, not enough time.....:D

[vitruvius]

another question Duke:
is the avatar size and weight fixed in vBulletin? or maybe in the future we can expect the possibility of have bigger and longer 'tars?

[madamimadam]

Originally posted by dukestreet
connect anywhere

I think the rendevezous logo is fantastic

[Mr. Anderson]

well, you'll be able to add a tar soon, so take it.

and vitruvius - no dice on the higher res any time soon - bandwidth issues. its not something that you can change, only arn.

D

[madamimadam]

Originally posted by King Cobra
Basically, if you want to find the right avatar, find whatever you have a passion/fondness for in the form of a picture and place it as your avatar. I basically said this to asurace, when he had no idea what to use with his avatar. Look at mine and mc68k's 'tar. We represent something about our user names on the forums for an avatar. It's not a bad idea at all.

BTW, way to go on 500. :cool:

Or like Beej's "passion/fondness" as shown below
heehheheheheheheh

[madamimadam]

I am rendering off the first draft of my avatar now.

Oh, I have been waiting for this day for so many months now and I am only 5 posts away.

:D :p :) :p :D :D :p :) :p :D

[mmmdreg]

Originally posted by vitruvius
here's another proposal i made, ill hope u like it:)

Yeahs i do as you can see (look left)...

[vitruvius]

Im Glad you like it Dreg!!
thats my first avatar design that appears oficially in MR (and even its not under my name, it feels good to see it in the forums) enjoy it!!:cool:

[mmmdreg]

while we're all here, is anyone willing to do me a banner-sized still image for me?..like those "'tars" on some other forums...

[SilvorX]

Originally posted by mmmdreg
while we're all here, is anyone willing to do me a banner-sized still image for me?..like those "'tars" on some other forums...
banner sized? :S that'dd be a huge avatar :S

[mmmdreg]

Originally posted by SilvorX

banner sized? :S that'dd be a huge avatar :S
I'm not sure if they're avatars as such but you know those forums where in the signature is like a wide graphic thing of the person?

[vitruvius]

Originally posted by mmmdreg

I'm not sure if they're avatars as such but you know those forums where in the signature is like a wide graphic thing of the person?

can u give us a link to some of those sites?

[Mr. Anderson]

Some sites do allow images in the signatures - but what you need to do mmmdreg - is find out the size limitations before anyone does anthing - like how many kb can it be and what the max width and length.

D

[mmmdreg]

don't worry about it anymore actually...I changed my mind