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epain.
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sort of pissed, I spent like 30 min making this up, only to realized the upload size was only 8kb, I know its my fault but do you think 8kb is a tad small? thoughts?

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http://www.myspacegens.com/images/temporary/828352622/animation.gif?7095427

if animated gifs don't show up
Aug 8 2010 11:24PM
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epain.
Posts: 107 - Karma: 15
(works if you click it)
Aug 8 2010 11:24PM
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fsscott
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8kb isn't bad at all seeing as you have pages with 50 of them on em.

If you raised it even a little it would slow down loading of pages by quite a bit, and the amount that you're looking for to use that animated image is a little much.

It's really simple to make that gif down to uploadable size though, just mess with the pixels and quality of your export and you should be able to do it...
Aug 9 2010 12:35AM
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epain.
Posts: 107 - Karma: 15
Thanks man, I think ill do less hue changes and make the background less complicated. I can def see your point in having a slue of ridiculously large icons taking forever to load, i just wonder how he did this;
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Aug 9 2010 11:28AM
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1337
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png gif most likely, see how when you click it and its in the pop up picture window, the background is black and there is no background layer. Skilled as far as the animation part haha. With photoshop, you can try changing from 256 color depth to 128. That helped me a ton when I was trying to make gifs and dropped the size down something crazy, and it kept the quality as well.
Aug 9 2010 12:29PM
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chardi
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haha i fail.
Aug 9 2010 4:49PM
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chardi
Posts: 5040 - Karma: 59
haha i win!
Aug 9 2010 4:50PM
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leahey
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You should probably look at my icon. hahahaha
Aug 9 2010 5:34PM
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chardi
Posts: 5040 - Karma: 59
haha i did the same thing, but no one posted so i changed it back. i don't know what his issue is, it worked fine.
Aug 9 2010 6:16PM
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leahey
Posts: 2548 - Karma: 32
It's a dope icon and I'm keeping it unless someone cares
Aug 9 2010 7:52PM
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epain.
Posts: 107 - Karma: 15
hahah, Gameboy might have your head.
( https://newschoolers.com/web/forums/readthread/thread_id/223336/page/189/ )
Aug 9 2010 9:56PM
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IanAvery-Leaf
Posts: 9932 - Karma: 9,411
I made it in Photoshop after winning gameboy's contest with a 3D gameboy and the NS logo. I used the animate window in Photoshop and made about 8ish frames with the gameboy spinning. Then on export I made it under 8k
Aug 10 2010 8:58PM
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IanAvery-Leaf
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Please don't, I made it for gameboy, unless he doesn't care
Aug 10 2010 9:01PM
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epain.
Posts: 107 - Karma: 15
did you use any 3D tools, or did you hand animate it? either way its mad skill
Aug 12 2010 12:37PM
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IanAvery-Leaf
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thanks
I used the 3D camera tool to rotate the gameboy, and used the animate box to take "snapshots" of the gamboy at different poses
Aug 12 2010 3:05PM
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Gameboy
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Hey everyone, yeah I agree ski.the.east has mad skillz, he made me the sickest icon.I can't thank him enough :) Please guys don't copy it, I know I don't have the copyright on it, but I would appreciate it if you don't take it.
Aug 12 2010 5:00PM
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