he's got me thinking

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:07 am

MKJ wrote:people who dont change their icons are people who keep their word, people you can build on, people WITH PRINCIPLES!

Now you're sounding like the Randroid in my new icon. Hardly persuasive, but I feel you.

Post by **Captain** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:09 am

Massive Quasars wrote:
o'dium wrote:Owned? Damn right:

nice, let's compare side-by-side shall we

o'pium manages to fuck up everything. In this case, a simple matte.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:12 am

Well I'm no PS wonk, but his icon seems more defined, and on this average if sub-par laptop screen it looks better. Though the subtlety of your icon has it's pluses.

Post by **Captain** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:13 am

Depends if you want the black lines to stick out on the edges, namely the hat. Lots of contrast to the forum matte IMO. Meh, your icon, buddy

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:18 am

Massive Quasars wrote:Well I'm no PS wonk, but his icon seems more defined, and on this average if sub-par laptop screen it looks better. Though the subtlety of your icon has it's pluses.

I prefer the contrast, but I don't know if it's overkill on a proper CRT.

Post by **o'dium** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:18 am

Thats called JPEG compression fuck tard

Even thought you made agif, you still converted it from a jpeg

Either way, the reason mine looks a bit different is because I made it from scratch. I can show you the 624x624 res version I made of the icon if you like?

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:20 am

eh, from scratch? Don't know how much work that is but thank you, good sir.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:20 am

Massive Quasars
Marxcyst

Post by **o'dium** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:22 am

Massive Quasars wrote:eh, from scratch? Don't know how much work that is but thank you, good sir.

Wasn't that much work at all, if you look at the mega high res one, its just basic vectors really:

Either way, yeh! lol. np.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:29 am

Massive Quasars
Minarcissist

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:46 am

Massive Quasars
Benign Marxcyst

Post by **ForM** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:20 am

Pro tip, you just need animation to the already spiffy one ya got.

Give that some thought. Theres plenty here who can make it great.

Your contemplated one, is shit.

JMHO

Post by **Captain** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:31 am

Just ask Surv, he's amazing at animations.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:36 am

ForM wrote:Pro tip, you just need animation to the already spiffy one ya got.

Give that some thought. Theres plenty here who can make it great.

Your contemplated one, is shit.

JMHO

honest opinion, value that

Not sure animating the accretion disc around a singularity would be the easiest thing in the world, given file size limitations.

Post by **ForM** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:59 am

Last attempt was less than 300k.

Mind you, I aint gonna post anything less than special. If I try hard. Im busy, so that likely wont happen.

Pro tip to the kids, 11 frames is plenty and still under size requirement.

Good luck on your quest MQ.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:19 am

interesting, appreciate all the help everyone is offering and as of late, you as well ForM.

I wouldn't mind eyeing some possible animated updates of this icon should anyone else want to give it a shot.

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:12 am

seremtan wrote:
MKJ wrote:
seremtan wrote:people who don't change their icons are like stagnant pools, breedings reptiles of the mind

also, boring
people who dont change their icons are people who keep their word, people you can build on, people WITH PRINCIPLES!
keep your voice down mate. they can hear you in the internet upstairs

sorry man, this stuff just gets to me. My buddies did not die face down in the mud so you and I can just throw our principles out of the window!

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:31 am

For those of you who don't know, the pic used in my icon was pulled from the TV series Justice League Unlimited. The character in question, The Question, is portrayed somewhat differently here than in the original comic.

Here's a episode where he plays a more active role.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oJlO44QNwE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rshIbcEP_1M&NR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMNAan2uDk&NR

Synopsis: Supergirl is on the rag and she's having wild dreams and waking up in cold sweats. She suspects there's something more to these dreams and asks Green Arrow to investigate, The Question interrupts their conversation and involves himself. The three of them spend the rest of the episode unravelling this mystery.

Post by **o'dium** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:15 am

Watched the first part of that and loved it, it was great

Super Girl fuckin pwned though while bad, THAT I would watch

And the Question or whatever he was sounds liek a right weirdo... Loved him :icon14:

"Please... I go through everyones trash"

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:23 am

I know it's asking a lot, but does anyone want to take a crack at animating my accretion disc? Wouldn't mind a flash of light or two as matter approaches the singularity (in reality x-rays and gamma rays, but we can make exceptions for our purposes here), or not if it would look like crap.

Sounds like a fair bit of work, so I'll understand if no one bites.

Post by **Canidae** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:01 am

There are some nice video animations at this link that might help to visualize it.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/an ... holes.html

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:09 am

This .mov matches the still in my icon.

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/bhcen/bhe_sm.mov

The image from which my icon was based off of is years old and still pulled for public press releases when they need black hole imagery.

Post by **Survivor** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:33 pm

Spent the good part of an hour to make a bogus example. I'll try again later when I have more time but the best way to make the disc rotating is by handpainting a perfect circle several times and then distorting it. Doing it by hand in perspective is a bitch. The ejection isn't too hard.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:36 pm

Much appreciated.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:28 am

Massive Quasars wrote:
Massive Quasars
Connecting the dots