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View Poll Results: Which Animated Avatar Do You Like The Best
anjaki
104 21.71%
Koyder
20 4.18%
Laslo Panaflex
101 21.09%
medea
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stoid
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Old Aug 24, 2004, 10:38 PM   #1
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1,000,000 Post Avatar Contest - Best Animated Avatar

The mods have voted and have made our choices for the finalists of the Best Animated Avatar contest. Now it's the members' turn to vote for their favorite. The winner will be the entry with the most votes by the end of the voting period, Friday at midnight EDT. In case of a tie, we'll leave the polls open for an extra day.

This was not an easy task and we have an honorable mention entry as well (see below). Congrats to all the members who entered the most participated-in contest in MacRumors history (over 230 entries). Thanks for your participation.

Honorable mention:

evil santa


If you've made the list, feel free to update your sig. Once we have a winner, that member will be able to use the winning 'tar.

Thanks again,

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Old Aug 24, 2004, 11:59 PM   #2
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Thumbs down

anjaki - meh.
koyder - eh?
laslo - hm.
medea - huh?
stoid - bah.

Overall? I vote for the cat.
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 12:06 AM   #3
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The cat is pretty funny.

Overall, not bad animated submissions. I'm pleasantly surprised.
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 12:12 AM   #4
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anjaki!

nice idea, much better than your first submission.

medea didn't have a bad one either, but i also based the decision on which 'tar i could stand to see in the forums on a regular basis. the typewriter 'tar is very dark, i don't think i could stand that for too long. although the swing 'tar has alot of motion, but i'm down with that.
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 12:25 AM   #5
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i cant figure out

What is being typed in Medea's animated typwriter avatar?
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 12:26 AM   #6
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i also like the cat...
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 12:33 AM   #7
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What is being typed in Medea's animated typwriter avatar?
I'm fairly sure it's "brains on"--> at least that's what someone said in the original thread medea #1
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 01:03 AM   #8
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yeah

would'a voted for the cat.
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 01:11 AM   #9
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I would have voted for the iMac fade, but it faded to the MacRumors icon, and it was kinda out of place.
Typewiter gets my vote.

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Old Aug 25, 2004, 01:51 AM   #10
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I would have voted for the cat too .

anjaki gets my vote for 'degree of difficulty' and nice smooth transitions .
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 02:12 AM   #11
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Personally, I prefer the cat.
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 02:57 AM   #12
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I would have voted for the iMac fade, but it faded to the MacRumors icon, and it was kinda out of place.
Typewiter gets my vote.

Matthew
I was going to vote for that one, but I didn't because it jumps from the MR icon to the original Mac (it doesn't fade). If it faded then I would've voted for it, but instead I voted for stoid.
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 03:03 AM   #13
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I would have voted for the cat too .

D.
Thanks for the support, I originaly made this as a screen saver for my phone.

I pleased to get a Honorable mention here & a finalist in the 1,000,000 catogory.

I was going to one with the macroumors logo in it so he is chasing that, but never got round to it.

thanks again & good luck to all the finalists.

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Old Aug 25, 2004, 05:40 AM   #14
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I also would vote for the cat.
Pity, I can't.
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 05:57 AM   #15
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Another....I would have voted to the cat post

edit: WOAH! Just noticed my title changed to "1,000,000th Poster" Thanks Arn!
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 06:13 AM   #16
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Evil_Santa = TEH WIN!

I voted for Medea..

but I really wanted to vote for the Cat

HOW the hell could the cat not get in?

Evil_santa you will always be the winner in my book...

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Old Aug 25, 2004, 06:24 AM   #17
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I voted for Medea..

but I really wanted to vote for the Cat

HOW the hell could the cat not get in?
My guess is that it's because evil_santa is a finalist for the 1,000,000th Post Avatar. The contest rules limit each member to one avatar in the finals.

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6. Finalists. The MacRumors moderators will select 5 finalists in the Animated, Static, and "Million" categories, based on creativeness, craftsmanship, and/or humor. There will be at most one avatar in the finals for a given MacRumors member across the 3 categories, so exactly 15 different members will be finalists. Decisions of the moderators will be final. The moderators will not be eligible to be finalists but may submit avatars.
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 06:35 AM   #18
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Santa stands no CHANCE against the Magic which is the Ipod Avatar <I didn't vote for it cause I am a rebel>

Anyways he could have won this one HANDS DOWN!
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 07:05 AM   #19
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Wow thanks for all the support guys, I'm taken aback by it. Seriously, there were so many great avatars posted I didn't believe I'd be a contender in any way.
Good luck to all the finalists and thanks.

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Old Aug 25, 2004, 08:29 AM   #20
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I would have prefered the cat but other ones are still OK. Better then what I could do.
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 09:27 AM   #21
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LOL, yeah I even prefer the cat.

Well, as far as my avatar goes, I made it really fast on a whim, just wanted to enter something. As for it fading to the Macrumors question mark, I did it like becuase it is supposed to represent what is coming next, which we all know is a G5 iMac, we just don't know what it looks like.

As for it fading back to the beggining instead of just looping, I did it to reduce file size, adding more frames to fade to the beggining would increase the already big file size even more.

As you can see the final is only like 32X32 pixlels, but the original was 75x75, I had to shink it to reduce file size. And if the animation seems fast, that's becuase I had to cut every other frame out to reduce the size as well. All in all it took me more time to adjust for the size restrictions than to make thing.

The full rez, full frame tar is in the thread linked in my post

Good work and good luck all.

p.s. Grats on your new title edesignuk.
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 11:26 AM   #22
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My eclipse and llama wings didn't make it... Oh well! Hmm... this is a tough one.......

EDIT: Voted for anjaki, but they're all good. If only i knew what medea was typing...
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 03:14 PM   #23
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mmmmhh...
my personal favourites for this category were:

sun baked #1
aus dave #1
Mitthrawnuruodo #1

some of the selected one's are also quite good.

congratulations to all
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 04:05 PM   #24
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Give me something furry .... The others are okay but too plasticy for my taste.
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Old Aug 25, 2004, 06:21 PM   #25
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Thank you all for you continued support for my spinning cat Tizer. Only another 275 posts to go till i can use is as my Avitar here is another gif of the furry one..
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