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Finally after a year I have made a MY design logo v.2. It's based upon an avatar I have used for a long time, one that I worked on and customized many times. (not the one I use on this forum obviously)


It's sort of: + =

Hope you like it

Cool!

Nice work.

wow, this is literally a ten year old post. Thanks for taking me down memory lane

Is this a rebranding of a sort?

Draise wrote: 20 Aug 2021, 14:59 Is this a rebranding of a sort?

I think some spam bot posted a reply to this ten year old thread and now everyone thinks I have a new logo

lol!

I like your 2011 new logo we are back to the future

Prodigy is here! Maybe there should be a Prodigy Fan Club thread. Ahhh!

Well hey, I guess this inspired me to make a new logo design.

The original logo was in part inspired by the styles of the Native American people on the Northwest coastline of the American continent. My father visited the Nisga'a and brought back various souvenirs but one of his t-shirts he bought back had a design that really stuck with me. This is an artstyle I personally love and a part of my own artstyle was inspired by this 'formline art' as it's called.

It features the usual M and instead of the cylon there is now a bat, as that's my favourite animal, against a backdrop of a setting sun.

As usual, designed in trueSpace and rendered in Blender:

How did you do your avatar.gif with such a smooth animation and under the file size limit?

The avatar filesize must be between 0 and 48 KiB

trueBlue wrote: 19 Apr 2022, 02:37
How did you do your avatar.gif with such a smooth animation and under the file size limit?

The avatar filesize must be between 0 and 48 KiB

I was gonna say I used an external link in the past but apparently that doesn't seem possible anymore on the forums and it is hosted on U3DA.com, on top of that the file is 44 kb so... I used magic I guess?


Actually I'm pretty sure it's some clever Gimp trickery optimising the GIF and manually controlling the frame-rate per frame, that's how I usually do the loops. Also there aren't exactly that many colours so I guess that helps reduce the filesize as well. I orginally created the avatar for my ModDB profile many years ago.

MikomDude wrote: 19 Apr 2022, 09:34

trueBlue wrote: 19 Apr 2022, 02:37
How did you do your avatar.gif with such a smooth animation and under the file size limit?

The avatar filesize must be between 0 and 48 KiB

I was gonna say I used an external link in the past but apparently that doesn't seem possible anymore on the forums and it is hosted on U3DA.com, on top of that the file is 44 kb so... I used magic I guess?


Actually I'm pretty sure it's some clever Gimp trickery optimising the GIF and manually controlling the frame-rate per frame, that's how I usually do the loops. Also there aren't exactly that many colours so I guess that helps reduce the filesize as well. I orginally created the avatar for my ModDB profile many years ago.

https://ezgif.com/apng-maker
Gimp can do animation?

trueBlue wrote: 19 Apr 2022, 14:31

MikomDude wrote: 19 Apr 2022, 09:34

trueBlue wrote: 19 Apr 2022, 02:37
How did you do your avatar.gif with such a smooth animation and under the file size limit?

I was gonna say I used an external link in the past but apparently that doesn't seem possible anymore on the forums and it is hosted on U3DA.com, on top of that the file is 44 kb so... I used magic I guess?


Actually I'm pretty sure it's some clever Gimp trickery optimising the GIF and manually controlling the frame-rate per frame, that's how I usually do the loops. Also there aren't exactly that many colours so I guess that helps reduce the filesize as well. I orginally created the avatar for my ModDB profile many years ago.

https://ezgif.com/apng-maker
Gimp can do animation?

I love animated PNGs, shame they never caught on. I used to make them and send them to friends, they'd freak out because they didn't expect a png to move.

Yeah Gimp does animation, basically it just takes the layer stack and treats them as individual frames. Try importing my avatar into Gimp and you'll see.

There's a plugin for Gimp that lets you export animated PNGs as well.

Thank you!
I see now, you are only animating your circular/compass/arrow/mask/thingy
Where, I am animating the same image, slightly rotated
Just testing the water I need do get way more creative to get the file size 50% lower

trueBlue wrote: 19 Apr 2022, 17:18 Thank you!
I see now, you are only animating your circular/compass/arrow/mask/thingy
Where, I am animating the same image, slightly rotated
Just testing the water
trueBlueAnim2.gif
I need do get way more creative to get the file size 50% lower

You can run Gimp > Filters > Optimise (For Gif/Difference) althought it looks like you already did something like that.
Generally it really depends on the complexity of your layers and the amount of pixels per layer that need to be drawn. Reducing the number of colours through Colours > Posterize also works to reduce filesize in some cases.

Personally, again, I would have wanted apng's to have caught on and become the new norm and now webp seems to be the new standard trying to prove itself. We'll see how .webp does, I personally wish it the best, but I feel like gif's are still the current standard with some services, like Twitter actually converting gif's to .mp4 in order to remain compatible and keep the filesize down.