Avatars by Im a Marty

Thought I'd post some of the Avatars I've made in the last couple of weeks.

Hope you like

(You can use them if you like them that much!)













This last one is of the infamous Corey Delaney - nuisance kid of East Australia for throwing parties that required Police attention!



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Just did this one this morning



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Beautiful...love the metal background on a few of those.

Those are awesome!

Would yu consider making some for the girls here?

Thanks!!!

I'm taking one... i hope you dont mind!

Wow, those are really good! I love the one with the cute little alien you did this morning.

I'm not in the market for a new avatar though, so some other lucky member can snap that one up - and someone will soon, I bet.

Thanks for the responses! Much appreciated!

Yes you're more than welcome to use that avatar - thats what they're there for hehe

Ok I will do a girly one (will try - never done one before)..

Thanks again

The metal backgrounds were done using "Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 - Impact' using the 'Brushed Metal' filter.

Ok better get back to it

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Ok here are some girly ones! (I hope they're girly!!)

Hope you like















Edit to add more!











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[edit on 6/2/2008 by Im a Marty]

Wow

You've been busy!

Nice work!

Very nice indeed!

Photoshop is my absolute favorite program.

Even for making simple animations...

Did you see my Halloween 2007 avatar?

Among other programs, the animation was composed using Photoshop layers.

Pretty silly, no?

Keep up the good work!

That Halloween Avatar is kick ass! How in the world did you make the animations?

I had no idea you could do it in Photoshop. Got a tutorial???

Would appreciate that to increase my knowledge in photoshop!

Cheers!

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Wow, Marty!!!

Thank you and i hope you dont mind but < i helped myself to this one

Those are my eyes!!!! Seriously!!!

Wow! and my coloring too! The artists here are incredible and you have one great talent!!!!!

Thanks again, my friend!

dgtempe - Made the background blend the colour "blue" to have a smooth transition for your avatar - also added your name - if you like it

u2u me if you want font changed



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Wow nice work dude!

I actually really like the one your using ... Actually if you dont mind, could you make me one? Its up to you, but if you can could you do one with the Australian Defence Force in it? Im not sure if you know anything about them, but i would like the camo colours - maybe as a background, with a Australian SAS Soldier holding a F88? ALso i would like the ATS Logo in it with "Deny Ignorance".

For some idea's check the Australian Defence Force Website: Australian Defence Force

Like i said before its up to you. You dont have to if you dont want to.
Anyway thanks for sharing such great artwork.

[edit on 24/12/2007 by JDN24]

You can grab it if you want Changed mine for a bit (making more as I type btw)

Finished for the night - time for bed! Just uploaded a few more..











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I had no idea what an F88 looks like (not even google came up with good pics) so I hope what I chose is OK.



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Dude.

Your art work rocks, but you need more monkeys.

MonKey

Marty, absolutely FABULOUS work.
I truly mean that. Aside from my first avatar,I have always made my own.
Man you make me want one.
If you ever make any with black winged angels...u2u me.
WAY COOL!

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Thanks!

It came in second in total votes for the competition.

It was created manually, and rather meticulously, in an older version of Photoshop, building each element both static and active on it's own layer, and then showing the layers combined, depending on the stage in the action, and saving each frame out individually, one at a time, being careful to name them sequentially.

Then you can use the actions palette to batch process the frames to an indexed color depth, with a custom color palette.

You then import the frames into gif-animating software and output the result as an animated gif.

My process requires a somewhat brain-numbing attention to detail, some would say tedious, but when it all comes together, it's worth it, IMHO.

The latest versions of Photoshop actually have an animation palette, and techniques using scripts to automate the process, somewhat.

Do a google of "making animations in photoshop" and there's all sorts of tutorials to help you along.

Have fun!

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