does anybody know anything on how to make animated avatars?

[chibiyume]

i want to learn how but i don't know what i need to do or if there are cheap programs out there.
or while we at it where would i be able to find anime animated avatars :(

[old hat]

Levon's site has a ton of them. The link is in his sig.

[chibiyume]

well i'm really looking for shugo chara/da capo/eternal rainbow avatars :( to heart 2 also

[Jatz]

For here? Size limitation is too low for animated avatars. You can look through Levon's work or just use the site provided avatars.
http://www.geocities.com/levon_r/LevonsAvatars.html

[Jia]

You can make them on macromedia flash. I'm still learning though so I can't really help you out there. But also Photoshop has image ready (which I THINK is the animation side to photoshop)

[Reidar]

I made mine. Google a .gif program and use the free trial. Uninstall accordingly.

[superplough]

I use Ulead GIF Animator.

As far as I know that's what Levon uses too.

[The Million Dollar Prons]

Who the heck is LEvon?

P.S. Ulead gif animator is enough.

[Etchd]

Who the heck is LEvon?

P.S. Ulead gif animator is enough.

Screencapping programs are needed too.

I use Imageready.

[superplough]

With ulead you can import AVI files

[Bradster]

Who the heck is LEvon?

Levon wears his war wound like a crown
He calls his child jesus
`cause he likes the name
And he sends him to the finest school in town

Levon, levon likes his money
He makes a lot they say
Spend his days counting
In a garage by the motorway

He was born a pauper to a pawn on a christmas day
When the new york times said God is dead
And the wars begun
Alvin tostig has a son today

(etc) filler

[Ikari Warrior]

I use unfreez to make my avatars, when they're animated.
http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/

It's really simple: You get all your .gif images (it only takes .gif), and you make them all the same size (in pixels), and then you drag and drop the files into the program.

All of my animated avatars have been made in that program, and it's free, and it's SMALL. The executable is probably a few hundred KB.

The downshot is that it's simple, and you're essentially making glorified slideshows.

[HSaabedra]

You could use Animator-9 and its smaller than Unfreez by a factor of two without the need for installation. gif only but you could combine with Irfanview to really shrink size without losing quality.

[Ikari Warrior]

Darn you and your oneupsmanship, Axl!!! *shakes fist*

I have yet to try Irfanview, though. That's why my avatars look kinda pixely and comic-booky when I save them as .gif. MS Paint sucks for that sort of thing!

Also, UnFreez requires no installation, it's basically taking an executable out of a zip file.

[Nuisance]

Use Iconlover. It's the best program to create animated avatar.

[Bradster]

I use unfreez to make my avatars, when they're animated.

It's really simple: You get all your .gif images (it only takes .gif), and you make them all the same size (in pixels), and then you drag and drop the files into the program.

You could use Animator-9 and its smaller than Unfreez by a factor of two without the need for installation. gif only but you could combine with Irfanview to really shrink size without losing quality.

Looking at the screenshots for both of these, and the apparent lack of modification tools, can I assume that you have to have all other aspects of your animated gif already prepared, and you can't alter the image within the program? IOW, you have to have the dimensions established and images cut of every version of the avatar you want, as opposed to making a 640 x 480 master gif and then cropping/resizing at will? Or take out a couple frames of animation (without remaking it from scratch) if you discover it's 3k too big for your file size restrictions?

[Ikari Warrior]

Looking at the screenshots for both of these, and the apparent lack of modification tools, can I assume that you have to have all other aspects of your animated gif already prepared, and you can't alter the image within the program?
Yep, very simple tools. I admit, the solution I presented is much better for spritesheets than a ripped .avi or something.