DS9 Avatar Contest 56

[BigFoot]

Welcome to DS9 avatar contest 56!


The winners of last week's contest are:

Belar won the episode contest (Whispers)

EMHMark613 won the theme contest (Runabouts and shuttles)

And DanTheGrey won the random theme contest (Emmy hosts)

Congrats!


This week's episode is Chimera from season 7. The theme is Seeing double, and the random theme is Fighter jets.

The theme must be DS9 related, while the random theme can be from just anything. The avatars have to conform to board rules: Up to 120x120 px, 20 kb for jpg and 60 kb for gif.

You've got until Friday evening CET to enter your avatars. Have fun and congrats again to the winners!

 

[EMHMark613]

Episode:

Theme (From Sisko's vision in the wormhole):

 

[Wicca who Wonta]

Congrats to the winners! :thumbsup:

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Congrats to last week's winners!

 

[DanTheGrey]

Here are my entries..

Episode

Theme

Random Theme

 

[Michael]

Hi everyone! I'm late, but here are my entries:

Snuggling Kira & Odo for episode, the "seeing double" theme (from "Doctor Bashir, I Presume") and for random theme the ultra-modern Plane Game™ from a 23rd century nightclub on earth.

BTW, EMHMark613: I love your theme entry! I don't know why, but it somehow makes me feel so sad.

 

[BigFoot]

There are a little over twelve hours left to enter avatars.

 

[Wicca who Wonta]

Random Theme:

 

[BigFoot]

^ Oh that is just wickedly cool.

 

[Wicca who Wonta]

^
Thanks

I might be back with entries for the other two categories if I have the time this afternoon.

 

[BigFoot]

^ Yeah, I'm also gonna try to find the time to put together a couple of avatars.

 

[EMHMark613]

Belar said:

BTW, EMHMark613: I love your theme entry! I don't know why, but it somehow makes me feel so sad.

Thanks!

here's my random theme (from the opening credits of In a Mirror, Darkly):

BTW, Belar, how do you make those avatars - which program do you use, how many images do you use, and what type of effects do you use?

 

[Michael]

EMHMark613 said:
BTW, Belar, how do you make those avatars - which program do you use, how many images do you use, and what type of effects do you use?

It really depends on the avatar I want to do. But basically I use PowerDVD to make screencaps of the situation I want to animate (that's also the reason why it's very hard for me to do an animated VOY avatar -- I don't have the VOY DVD's ). Usually I take a screencap every four frames (but I guess that also depends on the DVD program you're using). Then I'll change to Photoshop where I manipulate the contrast, plan the animation, erase futile footage, resized the pictures, apply my trademark rounded edges ( ) and export the frames as transparent *.png's. After that I open Macromedia Fireworks where I paste the pics and calibrate the time intervals. In most cases my animations consist of only 10 frames -- as more frames will worsen the quality of the *.gif.

So as you can see, it's not that hard. As the possibilities of what you can do are limited, it really depends on finding the right moment from an episode that you can animate. Sometimes it just won't look right.

Was that helpful in any way?

 

[BigFoot]

The voting thread will be up in a few minutes.