Trials 2 Animated Avatars

Dark-NighT · **Posts:** 84 **Joined:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:49 am

Hello all,

Ive been busy on making some nice cool avatars for use with forums, and the upcoming Windows Live messenger, which will support Gif based avatars.

Here they are:

All these gif's have the same width of 80 pixels, height varies a bit, and so does the file size, i wanted to keep the same color range so it doesnt look so bad. This means that these avatars cannot be used on this forum because of file size limitations which is just 69 kb, however non of these avatars are bigger than 190 kb.

When this is a succes i will make some more, tell me if you like em.

Credit goes to Lestropie as i used most of his replays to make these avatars

Thank you, and enjoy them

New And improved avatars

Works on this forum.

Original version.

Works on this forum.

Concrete smash.

Diablo

Pipedreams

Concrete Mayhem

Basics of handling.

Where's the ground, works on this forum.

For this i recorded at 60 fps so i could make a better loop, seems to work better.

On Request

rik · **Posts:** 244 **Joined:** Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:43 pm

very nice!

phiktion · **Posts:** 273 **Joined:** Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:30 pm

Sweet they look great recommend true fan award.

rik · **Posts:** 244 **Joined:** Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:43 pm

phiktion wrote:

Sweet they look great recommend true fan award.

i'd second that

btw what program do you use for making them?

Dark-NighT · **Posts:** 84 **Joined:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:49 am

rik wrote:

phiktion wrote:

Sweet they look great recommend true fan award.

i'd second that

btw what program do you use for making them?

I used fraps for the recording, then i opened the video's in virtualdub where can select a loop of the video to be exported as jpeg images in sequence, then imported that into Adobe Imageready to set the max filesize and dimensions and saved it as Gif.

Jorma · **Posts:** 505 **Joined:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:55 pm

Those look quite nice. True fan committee will discuss these next week.

DeanoDaMan · **Posts:** 311 **Joined:** Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:42 am

aka welcome to club (maybe) =P
and they look awsomebtw

soad667 · **Posts:** 364 **Joined:** Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:54 pm

Yeah, they look great...
Welcome to the club, i guess it's just a matter of time. :wink:

Dark-NighT · **Posts:** 84 **Joined:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:49 am

Who knows, id love to have that achievement

I just finished this one, ill try and make more with the rider getting seriously owned.

Lestropie · **Posts:** 203 **Joined:** Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:52 pm

Hmmm, this is giving me ideas now

When I made my current avatar, I couldn't figure out how to use either of my photo editing programs (GIMP in Linux and Corel Paint Shop Pro XI in Windows) to modify the colours to match the achievement icons.

So I did what all computer nerds do, and wrote a program to do it instead.

I bet I could use the same Matlab code to transform a short video into the same colour set, then transform it into a .gif, maybe even keep it under the 69k limit...

Watch this space.

DeanoDaMan · **Posts:** 311 **Joined:** Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:42 am

that last 1 cool =P

Lestropie · **Posts:** 203 **Joined:** Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:52 pm

<== Proof-of-concept complete.

Maybe someone with better photoshop skillz than me can make one with a smoother loop transition (I had to edit out the boxes in the BG and extend the sign at the top of the frame, but the smoke caught me out)

phiktion · **Posts:** 273 **Joined:** Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:30 pm

Lestropie wrote:

<== Proof-of-concept complete.

Maybe someone with better photoshop skillz than me can make one with a smoother loop transition (I had to edit out the boxes in the BG and extend the sign at the top of the frame, but the smoke caught me out)

uhhh thats freaking sick!~ gj came out good

DeanoDaMan · **Posts:** 311 **Joined:** Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:42 am

hehe nice1 lestropie

ANBA · **Posts:** 1080 **Joined:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:51 pm

definedly true fan stuff. comittee has spoken.

one thing i would do is tune the color's.. so maybe reducing the overall palette like Lestropies exemple would help?

Dark-NighT · **Posts:** 84 **Joined:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:49 am

Lestropie wrote:

<== Proof-of-concept complete.

Maybe someone with better photoshop skillz than me can make one with a smoother loop transition (I had to edit out the boxes in the BG and extend the sign at the top of the frame, but the smoke caught me out)

Haha nice work.

ANBA wrote:

definedly true fan stuff. comittee has spoken.

one thing i would do is tune the color's.. so maybe reducing the overall palette like Lestropies exemple would help?

Cool, sort of like my current avatar?

Or this one i just redid?

Think its awesome.

soad667 · **Posts:** 364 **Joined:** Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:54 pm

Keep up, great stuff...

Jorma · **Posts:** 505 **Joined:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:55 pm

That diablo one is pretty awesome.

Your wheelie avatar is nice, but the sudden lighting change is quite distrackting.

Dark-NighT · **Posts:** 84 **Joined:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:49 am

Jorma wrote:

That diablo one is pretty awesome.

Your wheelie avatar is nice, but the sudden lighting change is quite distrackting.

Yeah i still need to work that out, or get a better vid of a wheelie without to much background light changes.

phiktion · **Posts:** 273 **Joined:** Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:30 pm

yeah the wheelie will look nice if it is a uninterrupted loop !

Dark-NighT · **Posts:** 84 **Joined:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:49 am

Updated the concrete bashing gif

Ill get to work on that wheelie thing now.

Think its way better, look

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phiktion · **Posts:** 273 **Joined:** Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:30 pm

Its better but still noticeable where it ends and begins try to make it more seamless for the wheelie, even try wheelie 2 on the flat area or turn down the graphics in game, like turn off lighting and all that.

concrete smash is good though

also just a suggestion if you can try a different font for the words

http://www.fontfreak.com/fonts-no.htm

they have a bunch of free fonts that are good

I would change my avatar to one of your moving ones but i am kinda attached to my current one as it is a Avenger humvee, and i was in the army as Air defense artillery and that is one of the trucks that shoots stingers at planes/helos/missiles etc.

Dark-NighT · **Posts:** 84 **Joined:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:49 am

Wow thanks, some good fonts on there.

And yes i need some better way of making a good wheelie avatar, have to play around with quality settings i think, but all in good time

2k3 · **Posts:** 420 **Joined:** Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:00 pm

Nice signs! Good job.

DeanoDaMan · **Posts:** 311 **Joined:** Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:42 am

Keep em up dude there awsome

Dark-NighT · **Posts:** 84 **Joined:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:49 am

DeanoDaMan wrote:

Keep em up dude there awsome

Your wish is my command!

Just finished 3 new ones.

phiktion · **Posts:** 273 **Joined:** Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:30 pm

They look good!

Lestropie · **Posts:** 203 **Joined:** Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:52 pm

I'd try to keep them to within the 69k limit so that people can actually use them as avatars.

Anything that loops is good: that Concrete Mayhem one could easily be made to loop without any significant jump between last and first frames...

DeanoDaMan · **Posts:** 311 **Joined:** Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:42 am

yeh 1 i can use plx =P

Dark-NighT · **Posts:** 84 **Joined:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:49 am

Have a go with this one then

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