The Many Faces of . . . .
 

Having fun with some animation software. Some members have their head shots posted in the forum: in exhibition, here, and other places. Those that have a clear frontal shot of their face up Ive probably already animated a characture of you. Some were up in the TFP 3, but I thought its best I ask permission this time around.

If you have your pic up somewhere and you want a custom avatar animation done just say yeah, if you dont have a pic up and you want one PM me.

Some had white backgrounds which I had to take out because of sheer size, so they will have an outline like mine.

I'll start off with one of myself.

(Some of the animations have some decent size to them, Im using MSN's server-thanks phredgreen. I've had problems in the past if someone could let me know you see the animation, I'll know its not my cache and everythings cool and I'll start posting others- I dont want to fill a thread with rexes)



Grasshoppa






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The faces of phredgreen
 

Member of The Guild of Gladiator Wine Tasters

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0QADwA...29918304342928


Don't show up late, you'll make phredgreen angry. . . .you wouldnt like him when he's angry

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DAMN those are big..

That is too cool. :)

This is hilarious

That's fuckin' awesome!

I'm sayin' yeah!
PICS

Swedish Paratrooper Attack Squad
 

A soldier with discipline of steel. . .

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Fully trained in covert steath tactics. . .

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0SgDTA...29957972194790



And more recently Tribal Indian Rain Dancing.

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Yeah I experimented with the size of those; thats why Im getting the white line. The smaller ones have better clarity.

oh, wow. 100 cool points to Sun Tzu

Way cool! Thanks!

Thats hillarious! Can you get them to avatar size?

those are neatoh.
too bad im not photogenic, i'd like one of myself.

GWB yeah I can scale them down to any size. You dont have any pics up so I'll use your counterpart.

sadistik if you want to email me one privately I'll animate you one and send it back, you may change your mind. Either way its all good.




Favorite pastimes of George W Bush


riding horses
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Dancing to Rap music
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Hail Citizen!

I'm in if you are not too busy.
Thanks, in advance, for your efforts.
-GH

nah, i dont have a digicam, or a scanner. hmmm. what about the weird thing in my avatar? could you make that all, three-dee-y?

LOL...great stuff.

<---- Try this head.:)

Each day in Hamburgia, King Giant Hamburger greets his citizens with joy and kindness, receiving praise and loyalty in return. . .

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0QQDWA...30183408919759





If they only knew his secret, the unknown obsession and belief that he is actually Tarzan reincarnated.

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My skill is not there yet. Stuff like that lies in the hands of MAYA masters or 3d Studio Max. These animations can be done in about 20 minutes thanks to technology, but if I get a chance in a couple of days I can bring some life to your avatar in Flash. You'll need a flash player installed to see it.



rogue49 I did yours a while back, I just have to find it.

i do have flash. thanks anywho.

Once a great hockey player; immortalizing the number "49" in the NHL, rogue49 was asked to leave to the NHL because he had frequent habit of shooting the puck into the groin of the refs and laughing so hard he would ususally be unable to finish the game.


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Hail Reanimator!

I am entirely pleased with my animations.
Thank you very much.
In way of thanks I would like to offer you this award
http://www.raresf.com/award.jpg
for thread excellence.

Well done,
-GH

These are fantastic! I gotta picture up in Exhibition....Hook me up man!

I would, but your pics are all rexed. When you get'em fixed let me know.

Shoot.. if you got enough pics of me... go for it

HAL X S MODELS
 

After starting his successful modeling agency HAL X S MODELS; Hal would freguently check up to make sure things were running smoothly. The other day the photographer told him there was a problem with some of the new girls. . . .

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After arriving and seeing the runway performance; with great sarcasm applauded "Nice very nice" "not!" "What the hell is going on here?"


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"What the hell is this, this, and this?" Who in the hell taught you girls how to pose for a camera?"

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0PgDQA...30418837286438


"Hand me one of those outfits! Let me show you what this industry is all about ladies. Pay attention and learn"

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0PgBiA...30418929946381

Bones in da house
 

Yo G Bones tearrrnit up oane da tap dance flo, breakin it down up oane da G Fly!

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0PQDhA...30589381132000

that is nice.. real nice.. that software is great..

the SNOOP is the SHIZNIT!

Fuckin hot!

I say give him 200 points....

Nice stuff...really cool.

My stomach hurts from laughing

ohhhh.. damn gonna need to get a pic to you now.. hehehe. those are really koo.. gj.

Haha, nice stuff.

that is really amazing, and hilarious! how long do those take you?

depending on the complexity of movement and how straight the head shot is about 20 to 30 minutes per. Ones where the head is turned to the side are more complicated.

Hey, can you do one of my self portrait's's head?
http://www.deviantart.com/view/2509358

awww man that's awesome

Onstage Gutter plays the meanest air guitar around

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But what he does after the show puts him in a class of his own. He invites the ladies up to smell his armpits:

"CHeck it out. Come on up. Check it out. Smells like roses man."
http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0PQAMA...32408615902584







I couldnt find your real photo over in exhibition, so I used your psuedo identity, this was the best I could do from your avatar.

sadistikdreams special order hatchet with the hidden piano wire in the handle didnt come in as expected throwing him into a deep depression.

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Yours was the hardest so far, this was the best I could do. I bet I could do some narly flash with it though.

these are awesome, nice job.

Whoa.
Thanks

You do great animation, Sun Tzu. It took me 50 minutes on my 56k modem to get them to all work, but they were definitely worth it.
Thank you. :)
The GWB, jr cowboy trot was my favorite. :thumbsup:

THe software I use was designed for making avatars the size we use here in the forum. I enlarged them for this thread so they're quite a bit larger than usual. Thanks for being patient and the feedback.

Those were really cool. Amazing work. I have to show this to everyone.

What software are you using?

that is some cool stuff, i need to learn how to do that!

Its Me3D

I still have difficulty with profile movements though.

snoop is freaking hilarious! well done sir..

Let's see what damage you can do to this fellow here:http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...679#post782679

Thanks for sharing your time and talents.

What can I say that hasn't been said? Nothing I guess, but still VERY cool. I especially liked what you did with sadistikdreams self portrait, and all the animations rock.

With hammer and screwdriver in hand grumpyolddude started the days work with a good attitude; that is until he struck a loose wire without being grounded:

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Followed by a grueling session of agony from smashing his finger; he decided to switch to Sanka.

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these are just freakin' great.i can't believe i missed this first time around.

i've always admired your work man.

keep it up,i'd like to see alot more artistry from you.

if you wanna beat me and my mannerisms up......feel free.

whenever you submit a thread w/ your work......pm me w/ the page would ya'?

thanx

:D

That's awesome, Sun Tsu! Thanks a lot! You captured my relationship with tools to perfection.

Do I need that Me3D program to reduce those to avatar size? Resizing through what I have just gave me a static gif, no animation. I'm running WinXP Home.

Avatars can be any size; do you mean the size of TFP avatar max?
Do you have photoshop?

I should have been more specific. I meant TFP avatar max. No, I don't have Photoshop. I have MS Picture-It, some HP crap that came with my all-in-one, and Kodak PictureCD. As you can see, I haven't taken digital imaging very seriously up to now, and I'm not really inclined to spend any cash on it right now. Is there a freeware/shareware that you are familiar with that could help me play with these? Maybe I'll like it enough to get a serious program for it.

(the soul-patch look ain't too bad, but I like my goatee too much!)

The trick with the TFP avatars is A)100 x 100 which isnt that much of an issue aside from loosing a little clarity (with any avatar) and B) the challege: take a gif animated creation and get it narrowed down to just under 20k. Ive found that anything 19.70 and over will kick it back at you.

Ulead gif maker is good. I still like image ready for quick gif animation manipulation the best. It comes with photoshop, and when you right click an animation you see somewhere on the net you can open it frame by frame animation in image ready. The first order is to reduce it down to 100x100 just clicking on image then image size. That will knock down the size of the file. If they are video gifs or colorful you can start knocking down the amount of color from 256-128-64 so on anything past 8 will generally be black and white though. if you get to 8 and its still too big then you have to start knocking frames out. To make the animation even I'll go through the entire frame sequence and knock out all the odds or evens. That begins minimizing by 50% each time. THen you put the frame rate at the desired timing and shaaaabooom.

This one orginally started at 320x260 was colored at 256 and had a file size of 175k. Now its 100x100, 8 colors, and should be at an even 19 using the above method.

PS . . . . . . kazaalite er emmm

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0PwAKA...56587605771474

You are astounding! Thanks!

Flyman I've seen you all over the place, but now for some reason all I can find is side shots of you, if you have one can you put a link to an image where its a clear frontal shot.

Bones the only reason I put up your "alter self" is because I didnt think you had a pic up (well also because you didnt say yes either; can you put a link to where your shot is, if you ave a couple direct to the one where is most frontal, no profiles will work.

That's really cool

I'll have to get an updated pic of me.

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...0&pagenumber=1


thanks man...........pages 1 and 4

Those are outrageous cool

Months after becoming drummer for the hottest band around, Flyman let the fame overtake him and developed a problem with consuming too much MD 20/20. After 30 days rehab he switched to Boonesfarm and was able to go back on tour.

He has been known to get people at after show parties to walk as straight a line as him.

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^^^^LMAO!!! I love that one!

Here's my pic:
http://www.highereality.org/loree005.jpg

damn dude...........fucking brilliant....


many,many thanks go out to you.


thanx for even puttin' more hair on my head too.

After long days :::OshnSoul::: occasionally relaxes by walking in what she has termed "thinking circles". This is done with the song "Those Boots Were Made for Walking" in the background.


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Sorry Bones without a shot that your looking straight ahead in; you'll come out looking like the elephant man; "I dont want ta da man dat disses yo game"

Post another one if you can.

lol- OMG, I love it! Thank you!
Is there any way you can make it smaller? I want to use it in another forum that requires it to be less than 150x150 pixels.

He tried to educate me:

"The trick with the TFP avatars is A)100 x 100 which isnt that much of an issue aside from loosing a little clarity (with any avatar) and B) the challege: take a gif animated creation and get it narrowed down to just under 20k. Ive found that anything 19.70 and over will kick it back at you.

Ulead gif maker is good. I still like image ready for quick gif animation manipulation the best. It comes with photoshop, and when you right click an animation you see somewhere on the net you can open it frame by frame animation in image ready. The first order is to reduce it down to 100x100 just clicking on image then image size. That will knock down the size of the file. If they are video gifs or colorful you can start knocking down the amount of color from 256-128-64 so on anything past 8 will generally be black and white though. if you get to 8 and its still too big then you have to start knocking frames out. To make the animation even I'll go through the entire frame sequence and knock out all the odds or evens. That begins minimizing by 50% each time. THen you put the frame rate at the desired timing and shaaaabooom.

This one orginally started at 320x260 was colored at 256 and had a file size of 175k. Now its 100x100, 8 colors, and should be at an even 19 using the above method.

PS . . . . . . kazaalite er emmm "

Hope that helps... might as well be Klingon to me!

LMAO

Funniest damn thing I ever saw on TFP

omg!!! the one of hal in a egyptian princess whatever suit cleopatra maybe.. lol thats fucking off the wall funny... I spit coke everywhere
http://www.3rdgen.org/bb/images/smilies/haha.gif

HAHA these are awesome

those are wonderfull!
and it's great to see some of the peanut gallery walking and breathing! whole new dimension!

How is it that I've never seen this thread before?

Those have got to be one of the coolest things...ever. Well....almost ;) In any case, that's some damn fine work there, Sun Tzu. I wish that I had a fraction of that kind of talent. My hat's off to ya, man. I'll have to find a photo of myself somewhere. One that doesn't make little children cry. ;)