I’m still seeing way too many poxy default gravatars around, folks… so here’s the deal.
Seeing as I enjoy designing and creating such things, you can score a nifty av for nix, for as long as I can be bothered keeping this up. If you’re late to the party, perhaps some other pixel-wranglers will offer their services.
If you have a pic or two you’d like me to use as a basis, just attach to a post describing what you’d like. The largest that avatars will show up is 120x120 AFAIK, on your profile page.
Let me introduce you to the world renowned optometrist Doctor Julian Andrews Duck, “Dr Duck” to you.
His only disability? He’s rendered as a gif, and I can never quite figure out how to do something with him to make him into a square for an avatar, without making it look horrible.
Please feel free to do better with him, and see if you can incorporate Dr Duck into a pleasing avatar!
You should probably save a copy of the plain one; that’s a PNG with a transparent background, so you can put it against anything you want pretty easily.
Also, I notice that if I view image on your av, it’s 120x120 and resized by the browser, but if I look at mine or most others it’s 45x45. So I guess the board will get around to making a 45x45 copy at some point, and then it’ll probably look a bit better, since Firefox for one uses a really crappy resize algorithm.
I’ll take you up on that. I’m perfectly fine to let your imagination go wild on a banana that is steampunk. Maybe it has goggles. A top hat? Giant brass gears? Who the hell knows? You do!
Avatar is the hero of the obscure Ralph Bakshi film Wizards. He is reputedly a magician, somewhat in the vein of Cheech Wizard, who champions nature and hippy peace’n’love’n’earthy-crunchiness. If you haven’t seen the film the luger is a spoiler, sorry about that.
I’ve used Avatar as my avatar at work for years (nobody’s gotten the joke so far) but I’ve never been able to iconize the classic image (above) with the luger in any way that worked visually at small scales. Maybe it’s just too rectangular. Instead I use one of the many full front images on the web…
I’m going to go ahead and suggest that this conversation between you and @AcerPlatanoides just stop where it is. It’s not accomplishing anything and it’s just becoming a snit fest. So let’s all move on and talk about unicorns or something.
