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How to get animated Avatars
« on: November 29, 2010, 11:38:44 pm »
How do I make my avi animated? I uploaded an animated gif but as you can see it didn't work.

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Re: How to get animated Avatars
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2010, 12:02:49 am »
Ok nevermind it's working now. Thank you Qwerty. :D

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Wait... This just in, the Omnimagians have sent the UN a list of demands that must be met or else the world will be "submitted to the wrath of Netham45's Lobster Army". Such demands include >9001 crates of peanuts, sacrificial blue lobsters, and a wide assortment of cherry flavored items. With such computing power stored in the hands of such people, we can only hope these demands are met.

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Re: How to get animated Avatars
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2010, 03:22:33 am »
You also double-posted under 6 hours, lol :P

I personally use Photofiltre Studio but it's not free. There's also UNFREEz, but I don't know if it still exists. An alternate way is to save each frame in GIF, open them in virtualdub and save them in AVI one by one, then open the first, then append each avi segments to it, then save as gif again. Not sure if that would work for everyone, though.
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Re: How to get animated Avatars
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2010, 07:59:04 am »
For mine, I used The GIMP, I put each frame in a different layer, specially named them and exported as GIF. But I used a spritesheet (i.e. one image with all the frames in it, usually ripped from videogames) and not an AVI... Well for the AVI I think you could open it in The GIMP.

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Re: How to get animated Avatars
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2010, 11:42:18 am »
I personally use Photofiltre Studio but it's not free. There's also UNFREEz, but I don't know if it still exists.
It still exists, but it's a bit limited imo. It's not possible to choose different lengths for different frames.
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Re: How to get animated Avatars
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2010, 11:44:13 am »
How do I make my avi animated? I uploaded an animated gif but as you can see it didn't work.

You probably figured it out, but you have to host it somewhere else. Uploaded avatars become still.




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Re: How to get animated Avatars
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2010, 03:02:56 pm »
They do? ??? I never noticed that...

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Re: How to get animated Avatars
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2010, 03:03:51 pm »
no they don't, my avatar is very animated and I am very sure indeed I uploaded it directly good sir

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Re: How to get animated Avatars
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2010, 03:06:13 pm »
Could it depend of the compression used?

Also did anyone know animated JPEGs existed?

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Re: How to get animated Avatars
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2010, 03:07:07 pm »
they do?? ???

never heard of that... maybe that's why.

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Re: How to get animated Avatars
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2010, 03:10:51 pm »
You also double-posted under 6 hours, lol :P

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Re: How to get animated Avatars
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2010, 03:11:14 pm »
Actually nevemind, the person that did that just renamed the gif extension to jpg and it still showed fine in browsers. Apparently that was how you got animated icons/photo on your Facebook profile a while ago.

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Re: How to get animated Avatars
« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2010, 04:03:45 pm »
Probably, you already found out, but just make a .gif (using Photoshop, or any GIF Maker, I recommend a program specialized on that, like Easy GIF Animator) and upload it!

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Re: How to get animated Avatars
« Reply #13 on: November 30, 2010, 04:06:22 pm »
Also did anyone know animated JPEGs existed?
I found they existed because I think one of the old CaDan screenshots was an animated JPG. I could be wrong, though.


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Re: How to get animated Avatars
« Reply #14 on: November 30, 2010, 05:47:56 pm »
Also did anyone know animated JPEGs existed?
I found they existed because I think one of the old CaDan screenshots was an animated JPG. I could be wrong, though.

Wow, they do?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=animated+jpegs

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