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Omnimaga => Site Feedback and Questions => Topic started by: Scipi on November 29, 2010, 11:38:44 pm

Title: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: Scipi 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.
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: Scipi on November 30, 2010, 12:02:49 am: Ok nevermind it's working now. Thank you Qwerty. :D
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: DJ Omnimaga 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.
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: Juju 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.

And is it a Caramelldansen?
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: JosJuice on November 30, 2010, 11:42:18 am: Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 30, 2010, 03:22:33 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.
Quote from: juju2143 on November 30, 2010, 07:59:04 am
And is it a Caramelldansen?
/me turns into a grammar nazi
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: Deep Toaster on November 30, 2010, 11:44:13 am: Quote from: HOMER-16 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.

You probably figured it out, but you have to host it somewhere else. Uploaded avatars become still.
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 30, 2010, 03:02:56 pm: They do? ??? I never noticed that...
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: ASHBAD_ALVIN 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
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 30, 2010, 03:06:13 pm: Could it depend of the compression used?

Also did anyone know animated JPEGs existed?
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: ASHBAD_ALVIN on November 30, 2010, 03:07:07 pm: they do?? ???

never heard of that... maybe that's why.
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: Scipi on November 30, 2010, 03:10:51 pm: Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 30, 2010, 03:22:33 am
You also double-posted under 6 hours, lol :P

Oops.
Quote from: juju2143 on November 30, 2010, 07:59:04 am
And is it a Caramelldansen?

Yes it's a VG Cat Caramelldansen.
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: DJ Omnimaga 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.

Image in question: http://i.imgur.com/XBmZy.jpg

Topic: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090910110230AArUFvI
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: Munchor 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!
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: FinaleTI on November 30, 2010, 04:06:22 pm: Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 30, 2010, 03:06:13 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.
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: Munchor on November 30, 2010, 05:47:56 pm: Quote from: FinaleTI on November 30, 2010, 04:06:22 pm
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 30, 2010, 03:06:13 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 (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=animated+jpegs)

WOW
Title: Re: How to get animated Avatars
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 01, 2010, 04:11:31 am: Well, apparently it just involves changing the extension, so in other words, it's not really a jpg...