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Re: Christmas Avatars!

Postby DoglovingJim » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:20 am

Paradox wrote:I'm too lazy. If some kind soul can photoshop a Santa hat on my gif, I'd be happy.

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You could always use this little fella again, otherwise I'd try photo-shopping a santa hat but with my knowledge it wouldn't be a gif anymore.
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Re: Christmas Avatars!

Postby Anglerphobe » Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:13 pm

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My wintry incarnation this year is Torstein Skjevla, as depicted in Skiing Birchlegs Crossing the Mountain with the Royal Child, a painting by Knud Bergslien depicting Torst and his companion Skjervald transporting the infant Haakon Haakonsson (a later King of Norway) on skis from Lillehammer to safety with the Birkenbeiner King Inge Bardsson (aka Inge II of Norway) at Christmas in the 13th century while evading the forces of the rival Bagler which was all badass and stuff.

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Re: Christmas Avatars!

Postby Grimstone » Wed Dec 20, 2017 5:57 am

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The gif only has 3 unique frames in case anyone is feeling extra ambitious.
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Re: Christmas Avatars!

Postby DoglovingJim » Wed Dec 20, 2017 6:02 am

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The gif only has 3 unique frames in case anyone is feeling extra ambitious.

I wish I knew how to make gifs otherwise I would have done it myself.
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Re: Christmas Avatars!

Postby Grimstone » Wed Dec 20, 2017 7:39 am

For this I put 'santa hat' into a google image search, picked one(preferably with solid-color background), made the background transparent, resized it, and overlaid it on top of the gif. To animate it you would basically do the same thing(overlay the image of the santa hat with transparent background) but for each frame. That's the basic process, there are a lot of different programs and online tools to accomplish these steps(after affects, gimp, etc.) so you sorta just have to look around and pick one.
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Re: Christmas Avatars!

Postby DoglovingJim » Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:39 am

Grimstone wrote:For this I put 'santa hat' into a google image search, picked one(preferably with solid-color background), made the background transparent, resized it, and overlaid it on top of the gif. To animate it you would basically do the same thing(overlay the image of the santa hat with transparent background) but for each frame. That's the basic process, there are a lot of different programs and online tools to accomplish these steps(after affects, gimp, etc.) so you sorta just have to look around and pick one.

How do you get the different frames going, viewing each frame? Can a generic laptop get it working with default programs?
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Re: Christmas Avatars!

Postby Grimstone » Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:41 am

DoglovingJim wrote:Can a generic laptop get it working with default programs?


You could use GIMP since it's free and open-source. First you would open up your santa hat image and go to layers->transparency->add alpha_channel then select the solid-color background using the wand tool and hit delete. Next, open the pickachu gif and copy/paste the santa hat then use the scale tool to resize the hat and copy it to the clipboard again. Now go to windows->dockable dialogs->layers, this is how you view the frames of the gif. Move the hat into place in the current frame and go to your layers windows where you will see a layer called 'floating selection(pasted layer) this is the image of the hat you pasted and to make it's position fixed in the current frame you need to right-click 'floating selection' in the layers window and select 'anchor layer' from the context menu. Rinse and repeat this process for each frame(select next frame in layers window, ctrl+v hat into frame, move into position, anchor) and then export it as a gif animation.
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Re: Christmas Avatars!

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Re: Christmas Avatars!

Postby CarrieVS » Fri Jan 05, 2018 7:52 pm

Twelfth Night tonight, folks. Taking the decorations down.
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Re: Christmas Avatars!

Postby cmsellers » Sun Dec 09, 2018 6:48 am

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and I already used the obvious green-and-red birds last year, so I decided to go this year with a green-and-red turaco. There are several appealing options (not included in that post: Fischer's turaco), but I ultimately went with the Rwenzori turaco because this picture was just too great not to use. And unlike the too-great-not-to-use picture I found last year, it doesn't involve avian copulation, so I can actually use it.

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Re: Christmas Avatars!

Postby CarrieVS » Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:14 pm

I almost forgot

This year I am Sasha the Christmas Tiger.

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Re: Christmas Avatars!

Postby CarrieVS » Wed Dec 23, 2020 10:56 pm

I don't remember whether I entirely forgot last year, or just forgot to post it here.

Anyway, this year I am in custody

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