My Avatar(s) - ideas needed

[Mini-Me 24]

Hi people,

I'm just updating my avatar(s) and make them sorta animated. The 04 DeLorean MKII is done first, basing of an ingame video:

Next was the DMC-13, basing on two shots where one had no coil glows and the other did, I'm not happy with the transition yet:

(DMC-12) K.I.T.T. will be next, I guess I'll give him a simple moving scanner and maybe red pulsating glows?

That's the regular version now:

The standard DMC-12 also is outstanding, but I have no special idea yet, do you ?

Here's the actual version:

[bluespace88 9]

Why not make the flux capacitor flux and the sids display do something?

btw, shouldn't Marty be driving the Delorean and KITT drive himself?

[Mini-Me 24]

If you tell me what exactly the sids display is . Is it the green lights at the right side behind the driver's seat?

EDIT: Uhm, the K.I.T.T. pic was taken when I didn't have an invisible skin, so that's why he's in. Originally all weren't supposed to have a driver pilot.

[bluespace88 9]

green/yellow/red lights, yes.

[Mini-Me 24]

Hm, these are tiny edits to do and I'm nor a real artist neither I can get along perfectly with graphic programs .

[bluespace88 9]

true, lol

[bluespace88 9]

Just for fun, here's SA's Delorean with 4x AA (and horrible photoshopped jaggies)

[Mini-Me 24]

Might be doing the shot on my own to use an invisible skin there as well .

I'll need to decide then which to take or if I should use both, VC and SA.

[bluespace88 9]

lol.

Wow, the coils in SA really look a whole lot better then VC.

[Mini-Me 24]

A little bit more blue might be better, at least in this picture.

And what did you mean with 4xAA?

[bluespace88 9]

Anti Aliasing. Like look at the headlights on both your avatar and SA. Your avatar has jagged edges, while SA doesn't. Thats what AA does.

[Mini-Me 24]

And might that not be loss that happened when editing the shot later on ?

Jasc Animation Workshop is what I use, quite old Software that now Corel owns. Isn't the best, but enough for mme.

[bluespace88 9]

oh I don't know, its more spot on then VC's blue coils, assuming we both shot it in the day time.

At least its bluer at night. Just look at my sig.

[TranceLikeState 94]

mini me, i use jasc as well. i like it. i used ulead gif animator before that. how do you animate those coils? you dont photoshop each frame obviously, or do you?

[Mini-Me 24]

As is said, for the 04 MKII I took a video-shot ingame with FRAPS inside vice studio's greenscreen (to that DK applied UV Mapping for me so that I could change its color to white easier by replacing the texture, thank DK!) and directly opened the .avi-file with Jasc. Then I used the "replace color" tool to remove the white background and make it transparent (the multiple frames were there already).

For the DMC-13 I took a screenshot once with the coils lit and once with them off. I imported these shots, made the background transparent and then used the transition effect that created the multiple frames for me.

For both I finally added my nick into all frames.

That was nearly all I did (I left out some smaller steps).

[TranceLikeState 94]

sweet thanks. that sounds a little complex. i like yours though. i actually put myself in mine this time. a night involving a lot of booze a few years ago

Edited November 29, 2009 by trancelikestate