ENTER!!! General Media Avatar Contest!

[nevermore]

OK, thanks for the votes in the last round. Time for a new round, and I've decided to make this difficult, but I'm going to give you extra time to come up with something awesome. The voting poll will not be posted until next Friday, 5/15, in order to get us back on track for weekend voting.

This week's subject will be television show opening title sequences. It can be any part of the opening, it does not actually have to contain titles, though it can, if you want it to.

Commence.

 

[Lonemagpie]

You might want to put the words "opening titles" or similar into the thread title...

 

[Carpe Occasio]

 

[Aragorn]

 

[JonathonWally]

I had to make it really small cause I refused to cut out any more frames!

 

[Carpe Occasio]

I changed mine.

 

[Michael]

^ That's a great one!

Here's mine ...

 

[Carpe Occasio]

^ That's a great one!

Here's mine ...

Thanks. Ditto.

 

[nevermore]

Awesome!

Lots of good ones so far!

 

[captcalhoun]

Rachel Nichols in the titles of Alias S5...

 

[Michael]

Ditto.

Awesome!

Thanks, you two.

 

[Skywalker]

NCC-1701, what program do you use to do your animated gifs? I have an idea for an entry, but I have no clue how to rip a video and make it into a decent animation.

 

[Carpe Occasio]

Awesome!

Thanks much.

 

[Michael]

NCC-1701, what program do you use to do your animated gifs? I have an idea for an entry, but I have no clue how to rip a video and make it into a decent animation.

Well, I can only guess I really make my avatars the most complicated way possible. I use a program called PowerDVD (it came with my notebook) to make screenshots. I noticed that in the majority of cases a screenshot every three frames is sufficient to make the animation appear fluid. Then I'll use Photoshop to edit the single frames to my liking. Most of the time I have to figure out where to loop the whole thing. I also erase all pixels that are supposed to stay the same from frame to frame. In order to save filesize the unchanging pixels really have to be the same on every frame. (I suck at explaining these kind of things.) However, then I'll load the frames into Macromedia Fireworks, where I can export it as a GIF animation.

Does any of that help?

 

[Skywalker]

Okay, I understand what you mean. Except for the part about erasing pixels that are supposed to be the same from frame to frame.

 

[Michael]

Okay, I understand what you mean. Except for the part about erasing pixels that are supposed to be the same from frame to frame.

Seriously? Because I could try to elaborate on that.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

 

[JonathonWally]

Okay, I understand what you mean. Except for the part about erasing pixels that are supposed to be the same from frame to frame.

Let's say you have 15 actual pictures in your gif that make up you animation. Isolate the moving parts out of the separate images that are all on the same background and delete the backgrounds. Out of your 15 images, set one as your dedicated background and the other 14 overlay the animated part over that same background image. That way your not wasting your limited kilobytes.

 

[nevermore]

*cough*

 

[auntiehill]

OK..not that I can compete with ANY of these, but here's my lame little attempt: