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How do you make an animated avatar?

boeboyboeboy Posts: 301
edited 2007-11-19 09:18 in General Discussion
how would i make a animated avatar like·Dave Heins?

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lets see what this does... KA BOOM (note to self do not cross red and black)

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2007-04-30 19:17
    Hello,

    The animated Avatars are in GIF format, which allows animations like on web pages. These are allowed here but I will mention that some animated Avatars such as Dave’s are quite innocuous and are·not distracting·to see in a list of posts. However there are a few that can really make it difficult to read a thread as they’re distracting.··Please keep this in mind when choosing one. We did have to disallow graphical banners in the signature lines because they started becoming a problem.· I hope we don't have to do the same with Avatars.· Take care.

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    Chris Savage
    Parallax Tech Support


    Post Edited (Chris Savage (Parallax)) : 4/30/2007 7:46:02 PM GMT
  • boeboyboeboy Posts: 301
    edited 2007-04-30 20:51
    Thank you.

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    lets see what this does... KA BOOM (note to self do not cross red and black)
  • crgwbrcrgwbr Posts: 614
    edited 2007-05-02 11:27
    Chris Savage (Parallax) said...
    However there are a few that can really make it difficult to read a thread as they’re distracting. Please keep this in mind when choosing one. We did have to disallow graphical banners in the signature lines because they started becoming a problem. I hope we don't have to do the same with Avatars. Take care.

    Got Hint; Changed Avatar. It used to be:
    Animated_glider_emblem.gif

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    I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code

    People say that if you play Microsoft CD's backwards, you hear satanic things, but that's nothing, because if you play them forwards, they install Windows.

    I spent a minute looking at my own code by accident. I was thinking "What the heck is this guy doing?"
  • Dave HeinDave Hein Posts: 6,347
    edited 2007-05-08 22:31
    I used an animation program that came with Paint Shop Pro. I think it's called Animation Pro or Animation Shop. PSP was developed by JASC, Inc., and I have used it for years. Hower, I just went to the www.jasc.com website, and I was redirected to the Corel website. Apparently, Corel bought them out.

    Corel has an app call Animation Shop 3 and another call Ulead GIF Animator 5 (Corel must have bought Ulead also). However, there are no free demo versions for these packages. There are probably free GIF animators available -- just try a Google search for them.

    I don't know why people find animated gifs annoying. They are really cute.

    jumpin.gifhop.gifjumpin.gifhop.gifjumpin.gifhop.gifjumpin.gifhop.gifjumpin.gif

    Actually, they are pretty annoying.

    Dave
  • AnicAnic Posts: 1
    edited 2007-07-19 08:44
    The easiest program, which make animated avatar from video is Video UserPic, i sue it and love it!
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2007-07-27 02:23
    Microsoft GIF Animator on Wikipedia. There is a link where you can download it there.

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  • lilooliloo Posts: 2
    edited 2007-10-10 11:24
    Anic said...
    The easiest program, which make animated avatar from video is Video UserPic, i sue it and love it!
    For me its the easiest prog too-it supports all popular video formats such as MPEG, WMV, AVI, MOVburger.gif
  • JulsJuls Posts: 1
    edited 2007-11-19 09:18
    There are a lot of progs that can convert video to gif, but I also think, that Video UserPic - the best =)
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