PixarFan2006 wrote:Hey, julian, how did you get your avatar to move?
I put my Fantasia DVD in my PC DVD-Rom Drive, and took screenshots from the part of the frost fairy dance. I took an image for every three frames. I then reformatted the pics into 100 x 100 resolution. I made up four extra frames myself, with my name. You know, you have to stay tinkering with Paint, and changing the colours slowly, pixel, by pixel...
Then I converted every frame into static GIF format. I then used a program which I downloaded over the internet, called "Unfreeze". It is a free animated GIF maker. It's a very basic program, but it does its job.
When my GIF was ready, I tried uploading it into UD, but it was too big, about 300Kb.
I shortened the animation drastically, and reduced it to 110KB, but it was still too big.
Then I decided to LINK it to UD, so that it can be as big as necessary, but won't affect UD's bandwith, as it's not uploaded (at least I think that's how it works).
I then realized that I could link my previous more elaborate avatar to UD, but that one was so big, that I couldn't even host it on
http://www.villagephotos.com.
Let alone link it. That avatar was the same as my present one, but it had a much longer shot of the fairies. You could see them going round and skating over the ice. It was even made so that my name would blend seamlessly into it.
It was a lot of work for nothing, as now, because of the removed frames, my name doesn't blend in as I initially intended (and as it can be seen in the better avatar,which apparently, I will never be able to show because of its size).
So I hosted my present avatar on Village Photos.com It's handier to link avatars than to upload them to UD, because they can have a larger filesize. And I think that's the same reason people like DisneyChris or (sometimes) 2099net have avatars whch exceed 100x100 pixels resolution, probably because they're linked.
PS:
enigmawing, I think your random avatar concept is really cool!
It's also good, as we can get snippets of your pretty and stylized artwork whenever we want.
Well, that "shark" would be the Jaws poster. I wouldn't say he's dumb, rather just stationary.
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