So, I figured out the "random avatar" trick and couldn't resist trying it, as you all can probably see. Of course, where there is a random avatar script, there must be many, many avatars. To that end, I've been churning them out all day (and the previous night). I am so pleased with my work that I think I'm going to be keeping this setting for a long, long time. I know I'm kinda stealing teaflower's thunder since she was already doing the random trick, but, I figure as long as my avatars are more awesome, I'm justified. Sorry teaflower.
Aaaaanyway, I made so many that I ended up with quite a few extras that I didn't want to use because, although visually pleasing, they failed to properly represent me as a person. (That's not to say that some of the avatars in my *ahem* current rotation are perfect representations of who I am, but they are each moderately better in some way that most likely only makes sense to me.) So, I'm giving them away. Here they are:
Lucca
Marle
Ayla
Crono
Magus
Flea
Do not hotlink them. They are stored on personal webspace that I pay for, and I will not leave them up there forever. If you want it, copy the image to your hard drive and upload it to one of those free image hosting sites, of which there are many.
For those wondering, I obviously did not create the original images these avatars are made out of. Every single image here and every image in my own rotating avatar came from fanart that was on
deviantart. Every single image I used required significant cropping and resizing, and in most cases I ended up playing with layer filters to improve the color of the final image (the two images of Flea above, for example, are the result of two different, but equally nice, filters).
You will note that none of these avatars are based off of fanart stored at the Compendium or cutelucca.com; this was intentional. I wanted to show people a taste of how much good art was being missed. (Edit Jan 27 2009: My point was made, so now I'm using material from those sources as well to further increase the avatar library.) And these were just the ones that made for good avatars! You should see some of the stuff that's too big to fit in a 100x200 pixel frame.
All of the avatars contain a comment that gives credit to the original author of the image, and includes a link to the original image. The comment was added through the program known as
GIMP, which, I believe, uses a different comment tag than the one Windows Explorer is used to looking at. As a result, you may or may not have to load the image with
GIMP (a free program) to see the comment, but, whatever; it's there.
(Edit Jan 27 2009: Avatars made from images in Y-E's pixiv gallery do not credit the original image creator, as Y-E did not copy that information along with the images themselves.)I actually have a few more avatars I was going to give away, but alas, I cannot; they are made from images on
a different site that explicitly forbids their use without permission. And since the artist there speaks Japanese and I do not, I don't think I'll be able to ask permission properly any time soon.
Additional note: While I am giving the above avatars away, I would appreciate it if no one used any of the avatars that are in my current rotation (don't worry, there aren't duplicates of them in this post).
