Avatar contest

hello people i just had slight brain wave how would you all feel about a avatar contest between all of AO's members
like people how would like to enter design there own avatar and submit it in a thread and maybe some of the people here that are good with graphical design tools could judge it (ie)SickDwarf GreekGoddess and any others ?
i got this idea while playing with my avatar and the gimp hey i know i didnt do major improvements and its quite crappy but its my first time using the gimp

so how do you all feel about this i know it isnt security related but it would be better than all the news threads that dont have anything remotly related to technical and computer stuff

and maybe JP could put the top 5 avatars in with the others that you can choose from the avatars on the main site

OK Here is Mine!!!

I think this is a grand idea, it'll pass the time for me here at work!
Havent had a look at gimp yet, still learning the ropes but ill get a look tonight and get on the ball!

Hope everyone else is up for it!

r3b00+

Wait, I will also take part in this contest and will submit my entry very soon :)

ok there are wiling people but wait to see what the rest of the community think before subbmiting entrys
it would de a little pointless with only 4 people so if any 1 else is interested please reply

I'd like to join... I'm getting tired of this dragonhead.

What kind of grafix?

It could be anything from "AO" to a picture of Elvis?

Elvis is kinda cool, isn't he?

i'm game.
time i designed a still avatar.

i'll also help judge.
i'm a graphic artist as well.

I've got a few already, here they are... I'll get started on a few more.

the ones of the face are me, i used photoshop 6 to make a photo of me symetrical, then i lowered the brightness, increased the contrast. and for the white one i just inverted the colors, the matrix one, i made a slightly opaque layer mask over the white areas of the face and put a picture of code behind it, you can barely tell when it is shrunken like that. the "woot!" one was actually a photo of refrigerator magnets on my fridge, the only problem was i only had one set of letters and no punctuation, so it was actually a photo of them spelling "wo t1" which i edited with photoshop. the max one and the deagle one were actually not mine, just in my folder, didn't mean to submit them, the skull one was an interesting one... i was testing some vb libraries for making media players, and one of the visualization settings looked alot like bloody, rusty, smoldering steel. so i took a shot of that whilst "By Myself" by Linkin Park was playing on it and put an alpha map of the quake 3 arena skull over it, painting over the fangs, of course.

Count me in!

btw, acid, nice stuff dude.


Greetz & Respect

I'm definitely up for this one. I'd love to work out my own avatar and use it in a contest. Aside's, I'm so bored these days that it would be fun to create my own, use it, and enter it into a contest. This is a great idea! ;)

diddent we do this one a while ago?

I'd be glad to host the contest on my site and set up voting and submissions by e-mail without any trouble. I'm unemployed at the moment, I have a helluva lot of spare time.

Oh, sounds like a fabulous idea. I'm certainly game ^_^. Keep us informed about the contest.

::Chelle::

I like the idea, although I don't know if you need any special designing graphix sofware to do this.Do I need it?

regards
v/man:)

Yeah Sarinmage, I remember competing in the last one.. started by ac1dsp3ctrum, http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=219635

There were a couple of cool new avatars..

so I say.. why not..

heh this could become a regular thing - i dunno i might enter depending if i have enough time

v_Ln

[gloworange]I would also try to contribute, good idea![/gloworange]

<edit> eeek :shocked: I tried the pong effect. Won't do that again</edit>

Oh Oh Oh, Pick Me! Pick Me! lol :D
I Think I'll enter this one....it's just so.....me.

- Noia

o come on guys you all know i would soo win ;).

lol

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Originally posted here by GreekGoddess
I'd be glad to host the contest on my site and set up voting and submissions by e-mail without any trouble. I'm unemployed at the moment, I have a helluva lot of spare time.

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uh oh... christina... graphics tools.... spare time.... run its picasso! ;)

this one and the last one i just resized from larger gifs

I'm getting started on the page today...and I'll have voting up by tomorrow...so start posting all your goodies...or e-mail them to [email protected].

first original animated avatar... I think its crap but i hope you like it, I did it in blender and imported the frames to imageready.

Nice work x acidreign x . I think I might enter this contest. Everyone vote for me. Mine'll be amazing. Lmao...I wish.

generic flames, also done in blender, pretty good at this resolution, cant think of anything to put them on, if anyone has a suggestion of something they'd like to see burn, i still have the .blend file, so lemme know :-)

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I made all these while i was waiting for someone else to post, i got tired of waiting.
Here are more

Hmmm, I just made mine yesterday, what does everyone think? I am trying to do something more to it, but am also thinking of just starting from scratch. Anyway, anyone think its descent?

damn good, entropy, nice job...

by the way, when i was making all those avatars, I completely forgot the fact that avatars on AO must be under 20k.... it is for this reason i have come to the conclusion that i am officially a RETARD... that having been said, i have compiled all of the avatars i have previously posted, in a condensed form, into a zip file which i have attached to this post.. all of course except for luxo.gif, which i was not able to adequately condense without an unacceptable degree of lossage, sorry.

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THIS time, it wasn't my fault... three of the files in the previously attached zip are still larger than 20 k... but NOT ACCORDING TO IMAGEREADY!! i don't think anyone got a chance to download it, but I have already resized them, and compiled into a the zip, and changed the name to "imagreadyisaliar.zip"

Good idea dude....But let me get an avatar first.........

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I think i will keep mine. I had made some templates (download them from here).

well, id want to take part too, is there a software that you can make avatars directly from ?
i know how to make it in Photoshop, while specifying size and resolution everythjing, but i suppose there should be a software for it, im sure

cool

Is it possible to have an avatar limit of like 5 of your best? And start submitting them damn it...I'm putting them up for vote!!!

Am I one of the few people who has kept their original custom avatar through all this time? :P I notice your has changed several times, GG :)

I've always kept this custom avatar, but I think I'll design a better one, I dunno. If I have the time, I'll definitely try to make a really good one.