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Anyone making Season 2 avatars?

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1:37 pm
October 24, 2009


unniw

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<—- just made my first ever avatar – Beckett's moment of fangirl joy before Castle interrupts… Love

I wish I knew how to quit you.

9:48 pm
October 25, 2009


gfunk

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I don't know how to make one! I'm gonna look into it. I don't have photoshop tho. For now I'm stealing luna's eyeball-roll beckett one. Anyone catch a beckett lip bite? I'd like that. I wonder how many times she's done it. Stana does it herself in interviews, I've noticed.

9:52 pm
October 25, 2009


gfunk

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oh crap, wait, aussie's using it! scratch that. I'm a working girl too… :)

1:36 am
October 26, 2009


Luna

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LOL–thanks, gfunk!

6:18 pm
October 27, 2009


GreenyJess

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Heh, this thread sure is FULL of pretty, huh? :D

Brand-spanking new Ep.6 animated av. Thanks to Ashley for the tutorial and helping me get the brightness/contrast to work over the whole .gif! It took me forever to get it all working, and it's kinda fuzzy, but I still like it. Yay Mal. Love

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/Greeny/Nathan/Castle/2x06/Bwah.gif

6:29 pm
October 27, 2009


ashley_slomo

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Ahaa, yayy! Looks awesome! Yeah, no prob… anything I can do ;)

Oh, btw, I figured out why I always cut out the background! When I do the color/contrast adjustment layers, I don't want them to be applied to the background too (since it'll be under the adjustment layers too), so I move it up. Mystery solved! Cool

I like that font too! Suits the icon :)

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6595/thinkinboutkb1.gif

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7:15 pm
October 27, 2009


GreenyJess

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Thanks muchly. I wish it was crisper, but I'm sure it's just big and that's what's messing with the image quality. And I already forgot which font I used… what was it called? Heh, sorry. Embarassed

Ohh, that does make more sense. :D

And I gotta tell you again how much I love your new icon. I just keep staring at it… Love

8:21 pm
October 27, 2009


ashley_slomo

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Yeah, that might have something to do with it. Changing the amount of colors (ie. from 256 to 128 to 64) can also change the quality.

Don't worry about it, I've got plenty of other fonts to choose from ;)

Haha, thanks! Yes, me too… wonder what scene I'll get to do next week? :D

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6595/thinkinboutkb1.gif

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10:25 pm
October 27, 2009


ohsotall

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ashley_slomo said:

Yeah, that might have something to do with it. Changing the amount of colors (ie. from 256 to 128 to 64) can also change the quality.

Don't worry about it, I've got plenty of other fonts to choose from ;)

Haha, thanks! Yes, me too… wonder what scene I'll get to do next week? :D


Ashley, love your avatars.  I go on line every day to check for your posts.  I watched your tutorial but it is way above my head.  Keep up the good work.

Thanks to the extraordinary Ashley Slomo for the avatar

11:15 pm
October 27, 2009


ashley_slomo

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ohsotall said:


Ashley, love your avatars.  I go on line every day to check for your posts.  I watched your tutorial but it is way above my head.  Keep up the good work.


Aw, shucks! Laugh Thank you, ohsotall!

I've got some more coming in the next couple of days, so keep your eyes peeled ;)

Oh, and of course if you have any requests, let me know and I'll see what I can put together :)

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6595/thinkinboutkb1.gif

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1:39 am
October 28, 2009


ashley_slomo

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Okeydoke. I'm curious as to whether or not GreenyJess would rather I open up my own topic rather than hijack hers, but… for now I'll just post here :)

Here's a few more animated ones. My most recent "cherries" one got yoinked by another user (which is totally fine, because it gave me an excuse to make a new one!) so I thought I'd just put out a rule:

PLEASE, if you're gonna use my icons (yay!), could you put a credit in your signature? And if I'm using an avatar could you ask before you use the same one? I don't mind being avatar twins, but I barely had that one up for 12 hours before it got snatched. Understandable though, it's a cute scene Bounce2

Thanks muchly!

And now, roll those beautiful icons!

ACTUALLY: For anyone who doesn't feel like going back to page 1, I'll post my other animated ones here too. So here's the complete collection!

               

More are on the way! Bounce2

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6595/thinkinboutkb1.gif

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2:04 am
October 28, 2009


GreenyJess

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Oh, they're so pretty all together like that! 'Cherries' is still my fave though. And why would I mind you posting in here? It's for anyone making season 2 avatars to post in! Silly, like I'm gonna tell you to move all those pretties?!

Think I'm gonna try and fix my newest one. It has so much potential…

2:33 am
October 28, 2009


ashley_slomo

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GreenyJess said:

Oh, they're so pretty all together like that! 'Cherries' is still my fave though. And why would I mind you posting in here? It's for anyone making season 2 avatars to post in! Silly, like I'm gonna tell you to move all those pretties?!

Think I'm gonna try and fix my newest one. It has so much potential…


Oh, grazie very much! Yes, I think I like that one the most, too. I especially enjoyed making it! I think it was because I was still on a post-Castle high, lmao. Hehe, good. Then here is where I'll post em! Bounce2

Yayy, go for it. It really does Smile

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6595/thinkinboutkb1.gif

Castle = Awesomesauce. The end.
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3:19 am
October 28, 2009


GreenyJess

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/Greeny/Nathan/Castle/2x06/Bwah.gif

That's the best I can do, I think. It's better, but not a lot. Starting to wonder if maybe I just started out with a less than great quality video. Ah well. Making it smaller just didn't help. So I'm keeping this one as is and I'll just work on a new one. :)

Btw, if anyone is wondering what 'Bwah' is, just watch this.

3:36 am
October 28, 2009


ashley_slomo

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posts 418

Haha, that video is so cute! Nathan's voice has changed a little bit since then.

Here's my try, stupid ratings box thing in the corner kept me from getting his gun in the scene though.

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6595/thinkinboutkb1.gif

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4:56 am
October 28, 2009


SydneyDeb

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Bounce WOW you girls are so tallented I love the avtars so cute.

I wonder if Nathan had a bit of a fanboy moment when they told him he was going to get to dress up as Mal for a short time? BWAH!!

Let me tell you something about crazy people. The sex is unbelievable.

12:36 pm
October 28, 2009


GreenyJess

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posts 292

Aw, Ashley!!  It is better than mine.  It's faster, cleaner, and smoother.  I'll bet it's a combo of better video quality to start with and better program to work with.  My ImageReadyI 3.0 must be just ancient!  I had the same problem with the rating box, though mine didn't have the HD box on there… again, that's prolly why my vid is lower quality, lol.  Great work!  As far as Nathan's voice, I think the sound quality on that vid was just bad.  It all sounded a little off to me.

Deb, you're too sweet.  And I would LOVE to see some behind the scenes footage of that shoot, because I'm betting he did.

6:02 pm
October 28, 2009


ashley_slomo

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GreenyJess said:

Aw, Ashley!!  It is better than mine.  It's faster, cleaner, and smoother.  I'll bet it's a combo of better video quality to start with and better program to work with.  My ImageReadyI 3.0 must be just ancient!  I had the same problem with the rating box, though mine didn't have the HD box on there… again, that's prolly why my vid is lower quality, lol.  Great work!  As far as Nathan's voice, I think the sound quality on that vid was just bad.  It all sounded a little off to me.


I just slapped it together, I think it's going a bit fast, but it was just a test Crazy

Hm, I don't think it's the program, maybe the presets your using? Like lossy and websnap? Or the amount of colors? Not sure though. According to Wiki, IR 3.0 came out in 2000, so it is a little dated. Dunno, if it makes a difference. I was using IR 8.0 on Windows XP (which came out in '03 with PS CS2) up until a few months ago, and it seemed to work just fine.

You might be right about the video quality though, I was using video straight from the .AVI that I clipped down to an MOV. I didn't know IR could use MPEGs, but MOVs seem to retain quality pretty well.

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6595/thinkinboutkb1.gif

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8:22 pm
October 28, 2009


GreenyJess

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posts 292

My IR doesn't seem to have quite as many options as you have.  I adjusted everything I could find to adjust in the optimized settings and that's the best I could do.  Well yeah, the program's old, lol.  Yep, it does fine with the .mpg's- I've never tried an .mov because my file converter doesn't do that… I don't think.  Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've tried that.  Maybe we'll give that a go next time and see what happens.

11:56 pm
October 28, 2009


lilmac41319

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ashley_slomo said:

  


IT'S PRACTICALLY THE SAME SCENE! THEIR FACIAL EXPRESSION ARE SO CLOSE TO BEING DEAD ON! Shock

12:15 am
October 29, 2009


ashley_slomo

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posts 418

Woah! How'd I miss that?! Shock

Wonder if it was intentional…?

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6595/thinkinboutkb1.gif

Castle = Awesomesauce. The end.
Member since 9/29/09. Good times :) 

12:49 am
October 29, 2009


GreenyJess

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posts 292

Heh, that IS kinda weird…

Made some plain ol' icons this time.  Please help yourself, if you like…

       

12:51 am
October 29, 2009


Luna

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posts 188

Beautiful avatars, everyone! I am having THE hardest time uploading an avatar for my own use…is there some kind of secret thing you're supposed to do? I think I actually pulled it off on another account I'd made, but as soon as I tried to update a signature it didn't work. Such a bummer, all of these lovely avatars and I can't use them! Cry

12:56 am
October 29, 2009


GreenyJess

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posts 292

What kind of trouble are you having?  Mine upload fine… might have to do it twice sometimes.  Are you deleting the current avatar before you upload?

1:00 am
October 29, 2009


Luna

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posts 188

I am, which has given me the boring generic avatar, lol. Then I upload the avatar, which apparently works, but as soon as I click the update button I get the Grey Spiraly Thingie of Doom. I've tried it on Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox, and still get the same thing. I thought it might have something to do that my account is relatively old and I need to make a new one, but that didn't work either. Rargh!

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