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Well that is my name (although I don't use the apostrophe) Worked for the City of L.A. did you?
Yeah, back in the days of the wonderful Amiga. I did it too. Just think of the power of today's computer and what can be done in a minute fraction of the time it took to render a chrome sphere on a checkerboard ground. In Bryce, the paradigm shifted to chrome spheres over reflective water.
Now we concentrate on Vicky and temples though the temples now are magnificent and Vicky is dressed better...well at least dressed. Oh, add in a monster or two. Life is good.
My avatar just reflects my love for a bit of whimsy and fantasy and a certain vendor not at DAZ named Nursoda. One little guy is checking the coins in his hand to see if he has enough for the latest Vicky outfit. The other anxiously waits to see if there will be any left over.
I needed an avatar in a hurry when i became a mod, so i just grabbed one of the few decent photos of me I could find (well, the only one that wasn't a passport photo).
My avatar is an image taken with ICITC (Inter-Cranial Imaging Technology Camera) It uses state of the art brain mapping science to generate an animated summary of the personality of the patient.
In my case it is very accurate, as it identifies me as sadistic and a little squirrely.
And it animates juuuuust often enough that I only catch it out of the corner of one eye, causing me to question my sanity.
Well that is my name (although I don't use the apostrophe) Worked for the City of L.A. did you?
Nope - Northern Indiana, both of us; computer systems technical support for a fair-size company.
I've had mine for a while.
I do like a fair number of different anime styles, and Aiko 3's design has a close similarity to one of my favourites in the medium. Also, the generation 3 figures load faster and take up fewer resources than the generation 4 characters, which made a big difference on the two-core XP computer I was using at the time. Technology marches on, but I still <3 A3...</p>
Mine is my Logo which is a combo of Me and a Stuffed Bear... really long story is here: http://www.jazzybearbrown.com/about.html
but it is a good read!
For quite a while my avatar was from a grainy old photo of me dressed up as Frank N. Furter, when my sister was a regular at the stage show at the 8th Street Theater in Greenwich Village's midnight Rocky Horror showings. When I hit 9000 posts I switched to Hal 9000 for a while; at 10000 I switched to a Hubble image of 10000 galaxies. Currently I'm using the title heroine of a novel I'm writing.
re: Valandar, I always hated those chrome spheres!
Hmmm, I'm curious now; how DO you make them animate?
Mine's a picture of a cat, it's winking!
edit: I think I found the picture on reddit. I have no idea who this cat is, but it isn't me.
One I've used entirely too long is a normal map of text reading "I'm Normal", I always thought it was kind of witty in that dumb way. Someone needs a black and white SPEC-tacular icon by the way.
FixMyPCMike: I confess your avatar has always been amusing. The frank n furter one. I've always thought it was quite daring.
Re my Avatar: When I was younger I wanted a tattoo of wonder woman. =-) I Can't say I'm a big fan of the comics, any longer.... But, I always use wonder woman in my other job in tech support, and my boss is the Hulk so it works.
As long as you don't make him angry.
...mine is one of of my first and longest running character from the Shadowrun RPG of the same name. The "Six Gun Slinging Katana Swinging' self styled Bushido Cowgirl began her career back in 1991 and finally retired in 2006. Her backstory is a fairly detailed and lengthy one that involves the events which led to her taking on the lifestyle of the SINless* in the shadows of the sprawl.
Sometimes I kind of think her life mimics part of mine.
* In the game, an S.I.N. is a citizen's System Identification Number which one needs for everything from getting a job, to rending a flat, to having a cred account, to driving a vehicle. Those who don't have one basically "don't exist" and have zero rights.
My Avatar, well the short version is...
I like cats, and especially the big cats and as the wife won't let me have a real one for a pet (I'm limited to a couple of domestic short haired moggies at the moment but I'm wearing her down) so I produced a big cat based Avatar, it is actually the Nightworld Lycanthropos with the Species add-on pack to make what I suppose you would call a Weretiger,
The Long Version...
Once upon a time in a land far, far away (the UK) in a long since vanished era when archaic dinosaurs called 'Dial Up Modems' stalked the households of the world and this beast we call 'The Internet' was taking it's first tottering steps into universal domination of our lives a revolution occurred in the UK internet infrastructure, free internet access.
Well it wasn't actually free but there where no subscription payments and the access rates where pretty reasonable compared to the fees charged before.
Overturning the apple-cart of the established ISP's a company called Freeserve started offering a subscription free service where your only ongoing cost was the local telephone call charges for when you were on the internet and so the general public started flocking to this monstrosity we call the World Wide Web with the thoughts of free access to all sorts of useful services, online news, e-mail, software updates and of course that staple of the internet, free porn.
How did this company fund itself I hear you ask, well go on ask, go on, if you don't ask then I'll have to abandon this historical masterpiece and you will never know the truth behind my Avatar, and my Username...
Thank you to that person in the back row, I thought I was going to have to sign off half way through my explanation.
Now I'll continue with my epic. Freeserve and it's many competitors that jumped on the bandwagon when they saw the writing on the wall used a service provided by British Telecom (BT), the UK's telephone service provider, to claim a percentage of your call charge from BT whenever you called the number they set up for your internet pleasure.
Now another facet of BT's structure came into play at this point, local telephone calls varied in cost depending on the time of day you made the call, with evening and weekend rates being much less than those charged during the working day so I like the majority of people in the UK mainly used the internet in the evenings (after 6pm), now having started to use the internet I need a username, e-mail address and the like and being somewhat reluctant to use my given name I needed an alias, a nom-de-plume as it were.
It so happened that at this time I had developed a passing interest in Central/South American mythology and whilst reading up on this I came across a reference to a Mayan god called Kinich Ahau, now I'm sure some scholar out there will correct me but the material I was reading explained that the Mayan pantheon was somewhat involved and confusing at times with different gods having different roles and personae at different times. Kinich Ahau was in the main a sun god, but he also took on the form of a jaguar and stalked the underworld at night.
By now I'm sure that some of you can see where this is going, I like big cats, I have an interest in Mayan mythology and I tend to use the internet at night (and describing the internet as 'the underworld' just seems to be so right) so Kinich Ahau and various derivatives of it came into being as my online persona and so I started using big cats as my Avatar, originally it was the Millennium Big Cat Jaguar but it turned into the weretiger you see now some years ago during the PC anniversary sale back in 2010 as I was a founding member of the Animal Bundle Consortium (ABC), oh those were the days, members votes, high pressure and lighting fast campaigns to gather votes to get your favourite products at PC prices, but that is another story for another time.
Well that's it, interesting was it? Well it can't have been that bad as you have managed to get all the way down here, unless you haven't in which case you won't be reading this bit and you won't know what you missed because you won't have read it, or something like that.
Note. No cats were hurt during the production of this tale, all persons, events, places and deities are as I remember them and may not bear any resemblance to actual facts as you recall them or as they really happened but I don't really care. Any resemblance to proper literature is completely coincidental and not intend to cause any offence.
Are you still reading this? Have you not anything better to do, go on? Go render something or do some post work, spend money in the DAZ shop just do something else for a bit, you'll feel much better for it (possibly significantly poorer, but that is the price we pay for this hobby, though of course this is DAZ so the price you pay may well be incorrect and liable to change at any time though no fault of your own and for no apparent reason, but what the heck, deal with it).
Mine is basically a place holder until I can find, render or photograph something which is better and won't scare small children too much.
I'm tall and fairly hairy so I chose an avatar of something short and very hairy.
Cheers,
Alex.
Amazing character from FFXII (took me 155 hours to finish the game).
I always was snug in the thought a cat would rip the stuffing out of ALF it it got a chance!!!
my current one is JaguarElla an anthropomorphic furry who I am making the occasional youtube adventure installment of in-between other crap.
I have had a few including animated cats photos or rendered, my photo and my likeness rendered.
Hmmm, I'm curious now; how DO you make them animate?
"GIF" format images can be a sequence of frames. Each frame has a settable parameter that tells it how many fractions of a second to be displayed. My squirrel image is only four frames. The first one displays for 10 seconds.
A good image editor like "Adobe Photoshop" ($700) or "GIMP" ($free) can, I believe, do it. There are a few other editing apps that claim specifically to do it. (~$50) I haven't checked but "Adobe Photoshop Elements" ($90) or "Adobe Premier Elements" ($90) might be able to do it too. Get the trial to be sure.
I haven't done it in several years so take my comments with a grain of salt.
Google for "animated GIF editor"
Image below is partial screen snap of my Photoshop CS5 editing my Squirrel GIF.
Edited to add:
Actually if you look closely you'll notice that PhotoshopCS5 is doing a piss poor job with this image. The frames are all identical and in other parts of the editor the image is scrambled. :-(
I created this image with Photoshop CS2 back when the GIF animation editor was a separate Adobe tool only partially integrated into Photoshop. I don't know what's wrong with this image but it worked properly in CS2. Perhaps format standards have changed? Or perhaps I need to remake the small GIF from the original large frames (lost to the winds of misfortune). But it displays properly in the forums so until I'm ready to change it I'm not going to worry about it any further. Photoshop has never let me down once it has backed me into a corner and beat the truth into me.
I believe you can use Image Magick (a free tool) to do the same, to create an animated gif from a series of stills. There is an option to specify how long a frame should be shown before the next one.
Yep, GIMP can do it! I used to use it to animate textures back when I modded ES games.
@sickleyield, your avatar always reminded me of some sort of halloween spider ring. :)
Mine is based on my initials, www, and the fact that I use 3d stuff to make comics that I post on the internet, or the www, as it is sometimes known.
My name is Masterstroke, inspired by a Queen song. "The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke" so my Avatar is a photo of Freddie Mercury taken in 1974.
I have many happy memories associated with plastic spiders and other Halloween merchandise. My birthday is in October, so I usually get some kind of morbid spider-related present (every year I hope they'll have webby fleece blankets again, mine is getting worn out now). Sadly they're all black widow/orb weaver shapes, never jumping spiders, but they're arachnids, so I'm happy.
As long as they have the right number of legs and segments. I get an eye twitch when I see toy spiders with six legs or three segments...
My avatar is a quick cartoon sketch I did of the view from my computer screen... its toon-me with my twin daughters creating havoc in back of me... as they usually do when they find me at the computer...
The desk is littered with junk you usually find on the real one... books, assorted parts from assorted things, diagrams, cans of solvents, at least one camera, X-Acto knives, micrometer/calipers, a bottle of cyanoacrylate glue, a can of wasabi peas, pens (including a couple of Sharpie knock-offs called "Skerples" which I once bought at a dollar store)(bad idea)... actually there is even more crap on my desk at most times (hard drives, a respirator, ear protectors,flash lights, assorted objet d'art from kids, tape-measures,CDs,DVDs, broken toys left for me to fix, jewelry left for me to fix, small assorted auto and or motorcycle parts... I should probably end it there, it just goes on & on), but I figured most of the stuff I had already drawn would not even be visible anyway.
The girl on the right is shooting a Nerf gun (add Nerf darts/bullets to the list of stuff on my desk), the one on the right is just singing... actually they both might be singing... or shouting... they are always loud...
My old avatar was a toon version of my DAZ username "Lord Vicore"... which is a computer screw-up of my name by MicroCenter ("LrdViCore or current resident" on a sales flyer)...(I took that as a good name for my evil overlord persona).
My current avatar is more in line with my username "McGyver" which I use most other places... I tried using it here when I first signed up, it seem to accept the name and process the registration, but I could never login using that name... so I reregistered under "lordvicore"...
I should probably try and change it to "McGyver"one day, but I'm afraid of messing with forum software and delicate balances.
....@ Kinich. great story (yes, I did read it all). I remember the dial-up days, handset modems, waiting for that signal that all systems were go (successful "handshake"), and getting other housemates peeved because I was hogging the only phone line.
@Lord Vicore. Excellent description and nice to see the full size pic.
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OK that was odd instead of Kinich's name the first paragraph was preceded with:
Had to put a space after the "@"
...ahh, Magento, ye doth be such a pain in the bum.
Matt Bomer is perefection.
You couldn't change it anyway, but I could for a suitable inducement (such as a PM with the request - I'm too easy).
That, among other equally significant things, is why I never had kids. I can't operate in clutter or chaos. While I made a very comfortable living as a consulting network engineer and software analyst I continually frustrated the bean counters because I was spending hours cleaning up our own computer labs and labeling the cables, and sorting the itsy-bitsy parts into zillions of labeled bin drawers and coiling umpteen types of disconnected cables and identifying what devices they were part of and putting them separately into clear, strong, zip lock bags. And diagramming the office computer layout where the cables went under the floor. And organizing the boxes of software and corresponding printed documentation in the special room I appropriated for the "Library". I also repaired cables, installed hardware, installed and tested software, performed backups, and security scans. You know, the stuff that a computer system manager and his staff should be doing. Oh yeah, and I made sure my actual desk top was clean and all the pencils sharp and pointed in the same direction in my drawer. Among other things I was an unintended but very expensive techie. But still cheaper than a computer system manager and a staff who wouldn't have done it as well as I did anyway! Kids at home would have blown my fuse.