help with possible avatar please?

[Scott]

i was wondering if someone could make this pic spin, and resize it to avatar size. i can't do it :cry:


thanks
Sc0tt

[Scott]

damn----i forgot the picture :) LOL

[Scott]

or if this is better suited for avatar size.......

[Sunriser13]

See if this is what you want, Scott:

[Scott]

Originally posted by Sunriser13
See if this is what you want, Scott:

that's very close to what i want :). it kinda looks like it's going one way, then stopping and going back the other though. is there a way to make it look like it's spinning in one direction smoothly?

[jfcjrus]

Originally posted by Sunriser13
See if this is what you want, Scott:
Wow!
Not that my opinion reflects what Scott may think, but, from reading the origional request - to the finished product; I was amazed. Perfect.

You 'graphic' folks are something else.

I need to find time to start playing with this stuff. It looks like fun. But, I suppose one needs some semblance of artistic talent to do it well.

Anyway, IMHO, nice job Sunriser.

Regards.

edit - typed too slow, my poor old eyes can't see what Scott noticed, sorry.

[Scott]

i just wanted to say thanks to you sunriser. i didn't mean to dis your work at all----it is great!!!! you get $50 for doing such a good job :).

[Sunriser13]

Scott, I don't take it as a "dis" at all. What is it that you're after, though? Is it the slight stop you don't like, or is it the mirror image on the turn?

And thank you, by the way, but you really didn't have to - I just enjoy helping if I can... :)

[Meteor Dive]

I think was asking to have the little image spin with perspective.

Like all these kind of spins, they are hard.

This one took me about 3 hours to get the positioning and timing right. And what took most of the time was just deforming the image. I had to do that for every single layer!

Was this what you wanted Scott?

[Meteor Dive]

As you can see, with the use of the deformation tool I can give the image depth to represent the attribute.

This was a time killer. It's been a while since I spinned an image around.

[Meteor Dive]

Hahaha! Wanna see my initial attempt? It was horrible. Take a look below :) I had to go back and forth, watching between layers and frames to see where I should drag the nodes to smooth out the animation as possible :)


Anyhow, perhaps I'll toy with later to get down to avatar size.

BTW, I'm newbie here so what are the requirements for avatars, both static and animated?

[ethics]

Just size has to be 50X50.

I am very impressed btw, with that work.

[Meteor Dive]

Originally posted by ethics
Just size has to be 50X50. No file size limit? :)

[BigDeputyDog]

Originally posted by ethics
Just size has to be 50X50.

I am very impressed btw, with that work.

I am often in awe of Meteor Dive's work... He is a very talented young man who "plays" with graphics when he is not attending classes or studying... :)

My hat is off to you, Meteor Dive!! :thumbsup:

BDD... :{)

Oh... by the way... he's a "boner" too... rofl

[Sunriser13]

OK, working with Meteor Dive's perspective version, I have two more for you to choose from. Here is the "stretched" one, closer to your original shape:

*edited to change canvas size to 50x50*

[Sunriser13]

... and here is one that was resized to 50x50, which changes it closer to what I did the first time, without the "stop":

By the way, either one of these can be reworked to have a transparent background...

[Meteor Dive]

Originally posted by BigDeputyDog
I am often in awe of Meteor Dive's work... He is a very talented young man who "plays" with graphics when he is not attending classes or studying... :)

My hat is off to you, Meteor Dive!! :thumbsup:

BDD... :{)

Oh... by the way... he's a "boner" too... rofl Ah shucks BDD :):)

Thank you for sizing it down Sun :)

So, there's no file size limit with the avatars here huh? Cool :) This particular animation can go up to 20K if it's just shrunkened :)

[Scott]

Originally posted by Sunriser13
... and here is one that was resized to 50x50, which changes it closer to what I did the first time, without the "stop":

By the way, either one of these can be reworked to have a transparent background...


awesome!!!! that's the one :). exactly as i envisioned it.

[Scott]

hey Meteor Dive and Sunriser13----what programs did you use?

[Sunriser13]

Originally posted by Meteor Dive
... it's just shrunkened :)
Ummmm, "shrunkened", MD?? "Shrunkened"? LOLOL!! I need a new dictionary, apparently... teeheehee!! :haha: (Don't worry, everybody, MD and I are close - he knows I'm not making fun at his expense. <small>Well, OK, maybe I am, but he understands...</small> ;) )

Scott, if you want a transparent background rather than the white one, we can do that. Just let us know... ;)

I used PSP7 and Animation Shop; I think MD uses it, too, but he's pretty familiar with Adobe Photoshop as well...

[IamZed]

Scott, you’ve changed. I wanted to make your original avatar spin.

[Meteor Dive]

Originally posted by Sunriser13
Ummmm, "shrunkened", MD?? "Shrunkened"? LOLOL!! I need a new dictionary, apparently... teeheehee!! :haha: (Don't worry, everybody, MD and I are close - he knows I'm not making fun at his expense. <small>Well, OK, maybe I am, but he understands...</small> ;) )

Scott, if you want a transparent background rather than the white one, we can do that. Just let us know... ;)

I used PSP7 and Animation Shop; I think MD uses it, too, but he's pretty familiar with Adobe Photoshop as well...
Hahaha! My vocabulary is mostly from the "improvisation" section of my dicationary :) I made the past tense more redundant :) Teehee!!

Yes, I use Paint Shop Pro 7 with animation shop 3 that came bundled with Paint Shop Pro.

As for photoshop, I'm not familier of how the editor works and its features.

I only touched Photoshop 5.5 in my school during after school hours back in high school, but that was pretty much it. So I'm not fluid with the program. Sorry that I can't help with Photoshop features.
There are others here who knows the work around with Photoshop, so I'm positive they can help out with your needs.

In DSLR, I've been working with a lot of Photoshop users and learned that a few techniques are handled similarly between the two applications. Being around them, I learned a few key terms from reading their responses and other subjects on how the graphic is made. Which in turn, I can translate the process onto Paint Shop Pro. But I know nothing more than that.

With the particular text spin here, I used the deformation tool in PSP to obtain perspectiveness onto the animation of the image. From what I remembered, I think it's called the "Transformation" tool for Photoshop.