Animated avatars?

Tedology

Hello all,

I hope this is the correct forum; please forgive me if I've placed this in the wrong area.

How would one go about inserting an animated avatar?

I've seen Andy's avatar wink, etc...(or maybe I'm just seeing things! LOL)

When I look at my avatar on my photobucket account, it animates. However, here it's inanimate.

Any advice? Thanks much!

Edit: Hmm, nevermind. It seems it isn't animated in photobucket.com after all!

I do have an animated avatar... however, it's too big. Is there a way to reduce it to the forum's requirements (with a program like Photoshop)?

David_S85

Tedology wrote:

Hello all,...
...I do have an animated avatar... however, it's too big. Is there a way to reduce it to the forum's requirements (with a program like Photoshop)?

Sure. Just make sure it is less than 19.5kb in file size and 80x80 pixels or smaller.

I used an old copy of Jasc's (now Corel) Animation Shop for mine.

Andy

See the sticky in this forum.... how to do anything on Dgrin

Tedology

Thank you both for answering.

I looked at that thread and couldn't find anything about animated avatars. Could it be under a link that is titled something else?

Thanks again.


Edit: Yay! It worked.

Jeffro

Andy wrote:

See the sticky in this forum.... how to do anything on Dgrin

Very weird, I went to the sticky...how to make an animated avatar....clicked the link, and it brought me right back here....what is up with that . Maybe I'm stuck in a time warp. Maybe I'm stuck in a time warp. Maybe I'm stuck in a.....:D

xtnomad

In mine I think i opened in photoshop edit and took out some frames or layers. It has more on other sites, but on other sites most of the more colorful avators take a lot of time to load pages and slow up my load time. I like the load time in this forum so I live with it.

Jeffro

xtnomad wrote:

In mine I think i opened in photoshop edit and took out some frames or layers. It has more on other sites, but on other sites most of the more colorful avators take a lot of time to load pages and slow up my load time. I like the load time in this forum so I live with it.

This is still a non-answered question...to me at least. I checked the "sticky" again, and it comes right back here....which doesn't tell me anything about making an animated avatar...I'm soooooooooo confused.

xtnomad

I would love to explore this hobby more but work seems to get in the way. try this help in our moto second world with smugmug.
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3667

dogwood

Jeffro wrote:

This is still a non-answered question...to me at least. I checked the "sticky" again, and it comes right back here....which doesn't tell me anything about making an animated avatar...I'm soooooooooo confused.

Yeah-- does the exact same thing for me. Very twilight zone-- "How do I make an animated avatar?"

"Check the sticky!"

Which leads right back to the question, "How do I make an animated avatar?"

Tedology

Maybe the sticky was created by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello?

At one point, we'll all say "I don't know!"

At which point it will respond, "Third base!"

(Yes, I'm showing my age and you're all probably going, "Huh"?)

xtnomad

xtnomad wrote:

I would love to explore this hobby more but work seems to get in the way. try this help in our moto second world with smugmug.
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3667

Did any one try this one?