If you've made your own personal OOTS avatar, post it here (if you don't have it currently "equipped", or just post saying that your current one is your personal one. :)
I just made mine a few minutes ago.
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If you've made your own personal OOTS avatar, post it here (if you don't have it currently "equipped", or just post saying that your current one is your personal one. :)
I just made mine a few minutes ago.
I made mine a Penguin. He kinda stretches out on some monitors on this forum. Kinda weird.
This is mine.
I also made avatars for TheChris and Calyn.
Nice job, guys!
Mine's supposed to have a battleaxe strapped to his back, but I'm not sure I did it right. :-/
Plus, his arms just dangling out there looks a lil dumb. :P
As I've said in other threads, my eldest daughter made this one for me. I don't call her "my in-house artist" jokingly - she's the most artistically talented of anyone in my house. That's why I didn't make the avatar myself. :-)
I really like yours, chaotic wun...
I think I need to get a better program - like photoshop or illustrator, I made mine in paint and no matter what I do, I can't get it to look right. The lines are always jagged and sort of blurred. Of course, I should probably re-do my own, as TheChris's and Calyn's are much better than mine. Gotten better with practice, I guess. =)
Yes, I highly recommend Photoshop. Your can do most anything with it (graphically, that is). :D
MS Paint can't do anti-aliasing, which is how the lines on my ones look so smooth. Although, if you look closely, the normal avatars have white jaggies surrounding them from the AAing. You just can't see them on these light backgrounds.
I am planning on putting up a fanart page soon; anyone who posts their avatar here can have it included if they want.
I think your avatar looks good, Chaotic Wun. I assumed it was made by the Giant - you can't get better praise than that ;)
My only criticism is that I think the axehead would be carried at the top, i.e. the axe would be carried the other way up.
A much cheaper alternative to Photoshop is Paint Shop Pro (by Jasc Software, $74 download price) which incorporates the vector features of illustrator with the raster features of photoshop (only Photoshop is that much more powerful, but what is lacking in PSP won't really bother you with these types of images).
There's a 3rd even cheaper solution, GIMP for Windows, however, this is a windows port of a linux application. As such, the computer geek factor of trying to use it is pretty high. But it does a great job at giving you many many of the tools available to Photoshop users. And the GIMP is open source, so it's free to use in non-commercial environment.
I've been using PSP for years and the GIMP for months, and while Rich scoffs at everything non-adobe, I stand firmly and say "For your money, they're excellent solutions".
I tried in MSPaint. It did not turn out reall good. So I just made a parody of Kill Bill out of what had began as my attempt at a Personal avatar.'
I am gonna go have to mess around with my friend's Photoshop sometime.
Chatoic, yours looks awesome.
The least artistically inclined person in the world (ie. me) is going to attempt to play with her friend's copy of photoshop now... how do you get it to outline the circles?
Thanks for the compliments, people. ;D
Yeah, I wondered about that, but I ended up putting it on blade-down, because I figured he would reach back and pull it out by the handle; not by the blade, although, considering the weight that would be in the blade, the damn thing would clatter to the ground every time he took a step. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nighthawk4
EDIT: Note to those who care; fixed it.
In the spirit of selling non Photoshop options to people, I made this with the GIMP. I'd prefer to have taken more time with the proportions, but I still think she's pretty cute.
http://www.twors.net/rawbear/images/girly.gif
Turned out pretty good.
That looks much better Chaotic Wun. Now you can see both of them, the arms look right too.
How I wish I was artistic >:(
It's Songstress!Yuna from Final Fantasy X-2! *points*
Also, I present the TM fairy (tm):
http://freespace.virgin.net/toonraider.uk/fairy2.gif
ph33r.
And, dude. I use PSP8. Jasc > Every other gfx company. Even Adobe. Who suck, incidentally. [/fangirl]
I used to think that too... Until I saw what a huge range of filters were avaliable with Photoshop 7, while with PSP 7, there are really no filters at all.
I use Photoshop 7.
Anyway, that's a nice job with the fairy, as well as RawBearNYC's character. The only suggestion I have for Raw is the smile; it looks too precise and wide to be an OOTS smile.
Well, technically, you don't know how wide the smile is, you're assuming that it's symmetrical, maybe she's had a stroke and that's why her hair covers half of her face :PQuote:
Anyway, that's a nice job with the fairy, as well as RawBearNYC's character. The only suggestion I have for Raw is the smile; it looks too precise and wide to be an OOTS smile.
But realistically, there are several things that should be fixed in that, but I was going for speed more than accuracy, since I'm not actually making an avatar, just an educational experiment.
Geocities makes puppies cry. :'(
Fan Art Page Eh? This looks like a job for anime style Roy.
http://img59.photobucket.com/albums/.../royfanart.jpg
That's because PSP7 sucks. Use PSP8!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chaotic_Wun
Plus, a lot of PS filters can be used with PSP. I'm not entirely sure how, and there is techno-jiggery-pokery required.
I don't like the techno-jiggery-pokery stuff much.
I must say I haven't tried PSP 8 much... I've been too hooked on PS 7, but if you ask me, they're about the same.
http://home.comcast.net/~jdkaczar/catwoman.gif Looky I made this! And guess what movie I just got back from seeing.
Made with MS Paint. Hey, it's all I got!
Here are the other two avatars that I have designed for this board.
Calyn's and TheChris's
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/Alarra/calyn.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...a/TheChris.jpg
Both were done in paint, which is the only program I have right now. Although I plan to get photoshop soon and then will probably redo at least my own avatar.
Giant:
"MS Paint can't do anti-aliasing"
True, but you can smooth the lines manually. I've been doing that to OOTS figs for my tabletop sessions. I can't post them to show it (no modified avatar rule), but it looks better than jaggy MSPaint lines and isn't that difficult - just tedious.
If I had webspace I'd probably make a personal avatar for the boards.
There's always a photobucket.com account....Quote:
Originally Posted by martinl
I have no drawing talents at all (though some minor skills) and my only program is MS Paint, since I never figured out how PSPx works (and nobody will instruct me, I don't care). Hence I do a lot of pixel stuff with it, and frankly, even though I'm saying, I think I can pretty good "anti-aliasing" with that crap-of-a-program.
Okay, in honor of my Screen Name PrC, I finally got off my butt and made an avatar.
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Made with Illustrator, of course.