Quest for the coolest avatar

[lonewolff]

Wasn't originally for an avatar, though.
It was a small video clip,

[Kencho]

Yes, the DV camera + chroma screen + After Effects combination immediately made me think it's not just a frame The GIMP would have done the job if it were just an avatar

[Wretched_Wyx]

@lonewolff - that is a helluva process. But I assume it wasn't all for the avatar? Perhaps you were making an indie short with light-saber wielding ninjai?

@everyone else with original avatars - Very cool! I hadn't expected so many originals. Nice range of mediums/techniques as well.

[lonewolff]

@ Wretched_Wyx

More or less
It was one of my many side projects I was working on years ago. Nothing really came of it, except for about 10 seconds of rotoscoped lightsaber magic.

[nikki]

Sony DV camera, blue screen, Adode After Effects (trial), LSMaker, and a background image.

Guess you used Windows, eh?

[nullsquared]

Sony DV camera, blue screen, Adode After Effects (trial), LSMaker, and a background image.

Guess you used Windows, eh?

[nikki]

I was thinking of getting a new avatar (I made so many new ones), but whenever I replaced this one, I felt I lost my 'feel'.

[jacmoe]

I was thinking of getting a new avatar (I made so many new ones), but whenever I replaced this one, I felt I lost my 'feel'.

I view my avatar as a brand of sorts.

A pompous wizard with no hair??!

[Kojack]

Hmm, this avatar just isn't as fun without Chi being animated (the best I could shrink it down was to about 57KB, which is way over the 10KB ogre limit).


Maybe I'll change back to Foamy.

Mine may not be drawn by me, but how many of you wear a tshirt of your avatar while using Ogre?
Ok, maybe that's not something to be proud of...

[twilight17]

TBH I like "Foamy" more, it suits you better.. For some weird reason.

[lonewolff]

Sony DV camera, blue screen, Adode After Effects (trial), LSMaker, and a background image.

Guess you used Windows, eh?

I am still quite a few years off doing capturing, chroma keying, colour correcting, and blending of layers from the terminal under Linux.

[Kencho]

@Lonewolff, I think he meant a blue screen (of death). Hence the joke

[lonewolff]

Ah yes!

Sorry, not enough sleep during the festive season.

[nikki]

@Lonewolff, I think he meant a blue screen (of death). Hence the joke

LOL lonewolf couldn't even thing of that.

Just joking, no offense.

[lonewolff]

Its just that my rig is so tuned that I havent seen a Blue Screen Of Death in the last ten years or so.

[nikki]

Its just that my rig is so tuned that I havent seen a Blue Screen Of Death in the last ten years or so.

Neither have I (on Windows). I usually don't do anything stupid.

[DanielSefton]

Its just that my rig is so tuned that I havent seen a Blue Screen Of Death in the last ten years or so.

Neither have I (on Windows). I usually don't do anything stupid.

Write a few dodgy bits of code around OpenGL, and hey presto.

[nikki]

Its just that my rig is so tuned that I havent seen a Blue Screen Of Death in the last ten years or so.

Neither have I (on Windows). I usually don't do anything stupid.

Write a few dodgy bits of code around OpenGL, and hey presto.

I guess I'm a 'good' coder then.

[nullsquared]

Slightly off topic, I had my first BSOD since ... forever, really - all because of Fraps (or so I hope). That sucked. Turn on Fraps for some frame rate benchmarking, and 1 minute into the benchmark my monitor and sound go haywire, all of a sudden blue screen, sound looping, my motherboard beeping. It really wasn't your normal BSOD, it was really ... scary, to be honest, I thought my CPU blew up or something.

Restarted, didn't run Fraps, checked temperatures for an hour, ran heavy apps, etc., no blue screen ...

[nikki]

...to be honest, I thought my CPU blew up or something.

I'm sorry, but... LOL!

[psquare]

checked temperatures for an hour, ran heavy apps, etc., no blue screen ...

Lol. Been down that road. But its not funny at the time

[nikki]

Now, I'm thinking of changing my avatar, but I'm afraid I'd lose the 'nikkiness'... You guys think I should?

[lonewolff]

Its a tough decision.

I have thought about this in the past. I am sticking with my avatar, as I dont want to lose my lonewolff-ness.

I must admit. If you did change it, it would take a while to get used to again and initially people would think 'who is this guy?'

[jacmoe]

Hehe!
That reminds me of when Haffax decided to change his avatar *and* his forum username. At the same time!

That was weird! .P

Read about it here: -> Scary Stuff

[Kojack]

Oh yeah, I remember when that happened.

That's the problem with semi known names, you can't always use them everywhere. So many places I go to already have a Kojack registered, so I have to fall back on my much less common Asheron's Call character name of Rajetic.