Can anyone offer me some instruction in the art of creating my own animated avatar? I'd like to have something unique to me rather than stealing something amusing off google like i usually do. Thanks.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(chainsoar @ Jun 12 2006, 01:24 PM) [snapback]236118[/snapback]</div>Use progs like RealDRAW Pro, or Adobe Photoshop or smth or MS paint.
Mine is a rip from a game, nothing special now.

You could make a flying chainsaw. :P What a unique avatar.

You'll need to get a program that does animated Gifs. I do that via a program that came with Paint Shop Pro, a relatively inexpensive but totally funcitonal graphic editing program. (I think I payed $60 for it, while in comparision Adobe costs like $700 and has no animation program.) However, that was a while ago and I don't know if it's still bundled with PSP, or how much the latest version of PSP even is. I hear it's gone up in price.

Good luck. People round here know how I feel about making your own avatar. Thumbs up!

Use paint.

Get a image from your favorite game, cut out a part of it, a head of an enemy for example, draw a sexy border around it, boom, you got a nice looking avatar. Saves you $600 dollars and comes out looking better than some strange milky effect anyway.

Yeah, but he speciffically wanted to animate it. can't do that with paint.

Yes you can, make your frames in paint then download a free GIF image compiler and you can make a good looking animated GIF without any problems.

It's easy.

Yeah but you aren't animating it in paint, only making the frames.
And if that counts you could do that in PS, Image Ready.

I made my animated avatar using GIMP (which is downladable for free)
In that program you just have to draw the frames in separate layers and then save as an animated gif! It's so simple, isn't it? ;)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Quintopotere @ Jun 13 2006, 06:31 PM) [snapback]236519[/snapback]</div>I did not know that. i don't use Gimp myself because I'm still using PSP. But for this thread I think this wins the award for "most useful reply."