Cool Animated Avatars

telerion

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08 Mar 05 21:57

telerion

True X X Xian

The Lord's Army

Joined: 18 Jul 04
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08 Mar 05 21:57

I designed an animated avatar on photoshop. Can I use it (each frame is 50x50)? If this won't work, then how do some people's avatars have motion?

Aiko

Joined: 23 Mar 04
Moves: 264358

08 Mar 05 22:10

Do you realise animating avaters are very annoying. Almost more annoying than animating ads?
Please don't do.

telerion

True X X Xian

The Lord's Army

Joined: 18 Jul 04
Moves: 8353

08 Mar 05 22:14

Originally posted by Aiko
Do you realise animating avaters are very annoying. Almost more annoying than animating ads?
Please don't do.

Ok. Let's pretend that I am not going to use it here. How do I do it so that I can use animated avatars elsewhere?

Toe

Joined: 10 Feb 03
Moves: 12969

08 Mar 05 22:29

just save the animation as a gif file.
Very few are ever worth the effort but
there are some that work well.

telerion

True X X Xian

The Lord's Army

Joined: 18 Jul 04
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08 Mar 05 22:30

1 edit

Originally posted by Toe
just save the animation as a gif file.
Very few are ever worth the effort but
there are some that work well.

Yeah I tried saving from Adobe Photoshop as a gif file but when I open it with browser it just shows the first frame. Here I'll give it a shot and see if it will work here.

Edit: Yeah gif isn't working. Hmm . . . any ideas?

Toe

Joined: 10 Feb 03
Moves: 12969

08 Mar 05 22:52

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sounds like one of the following
1) your browser isn't showing animations (there is a setting that turns them off),
2) the animation setttings (speed etc) are not right
3) you only saved the first frame
4) something typically weird happened: its a PC after all...