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kingryan
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Hi All,

These are the Animated Sigs. I have made so far.

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm193/kingryanv/kingryan.gif?t=1216354349
This one was the first ever Animated Signature on AG!


http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm193/kingryanv/krsig3.gif?t=1216375954
I made this one because the first one is slightly too simple!

Got any ideas for more?

KingRyan

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Klaushouse
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They are alright. Too simple and don't look good enough. But for the love of god don't bring animated sigs to AG. I really don't want to start having to look at these all the time...

kingryan
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Oh great response...

But don't worry, I will get sick of posting them eventually, and I doubt that many people will be able to make them...

KingRyan

Klaushouse
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Good animated ones are usually not long like the second and just having something moving or other. Like a person breathing or powering up. They are short, loop perfectly and just look cool. Try that out.

crazynaitor
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Good KingRyan I think the first one isn't good but the second was is awesome!

kingryan
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Yeah, like I said, these are just the beginning ones...I might be able to do a really good one on Monday when I have the day off of school...

KingRyan

crazynaitor
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Ooh I can't wait!

Strop
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1) I agree with Klaushouse- too many animated sigs would make viewing AG hell. On the other hand, with the new size restrictions, it may be a little more bearable.

2) Fortunately not many people can do their own animated signatures. I personally like that little kitschy touch where those who can give it a shot so the results are, for want of a better term, noobish :P I totally lol'd at KR's second example...while it's not like totally pwnsome or l33t or whatever you might find in some hardcore videogaming forum, I don't care. And it probably saves on bandwidth- remember there's also a filesize limitation of 40kb.

To that end when signatures first started becoming popular, I whipped one up to see whether I could do something animated with a bit of lulz and keep it within 40kb. And guess what, I can!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a268/dongstyle_ltd/Not%20photos/sp_ninja.gif?t=1216382766

But I don't ever intend to use a signature. That would not be the ninja way.

dragoncrusher
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Yeah, I also agree with Klaushouse. Animated Signs would bring AG down, and make it a pain to view.

crazynaitor
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Jester

Ha Ha nice Strop!

Girl_Power
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Yea I think Strops is really xool.And I love your 2nd one KingRyan!

Klaushouse
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Very pissed. Made a SICK one but it's huge and there is no way to just shrink it to fit in flash...

florglee2
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bummer, i personally dont like animated pictures, and if someone starts offering to make them free, 9 out of every 10 people on AG will probably ask for one, and then that person will most probably quit due to too much requests and spam and stuff

firetail_madness
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A little bit plain, but better than I could ever do.

kingryan
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Strop....yours totally owned mine...

What did you make that in?

KingRyan

Strop
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It did not own yours. Yours is actually hilarious. For some quirky reason I love it.

The frames were done using basic raster tools (like in MS Paint)- but I also used the 'motion blur' in GIMP. After that I converted to index manually and reduced the color levels to 6 or something, which is why I managed to squeeze 32 frames into 40kb.

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