What's your avatar?

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 10:30 pm

zer0eight wrote:I am still trying to make/tweak some animations.. currently it is a short loop of Leon shooting a zombie in Resident Evil 4.

zer0eight

That's a great pic.

aurang · Post by **aurang** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:38 pm

Saki Vashtar from Area 88.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:42 pm

A cross paw design made by another fellow. I'm christian and I'm into furry (No, not one of those pervs having sex while dressed as animals. My involvement with the medium is in a very light manner). Simple, huh?

Minzoku wrote:
No, I don't root through trash

Boy am I glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that line. Otherwise my screen would be covered with Kool-Aid and snot.

OmegaFlareX · Post by **OmegaFlareX** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:47 pm

Salamander.

All throughout the old forum, from start to finish, I had a Metal Babble from the Dragon Quest/Warrior games.

Tomtom · Post by **Tomtom** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:00 am

Right now mine is Bolt, the "Militant Pilot" from Progear. I'm really not playing Progear, but I think the character designs are neat.

zer0eight · Post by **zer0eight** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:33 am

landshark wrote:
zer0eight wrote:I am still trying to make/tweak some animations.. currently it is a short loop of Leon shooting a zombie in Resident Evil 4.

zer0eight
That's a great pic.

Thanks Landshark! It's tough to get a decent 80x80 animation in under 20kb!

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:12 am

Part of an untitled piece by Zdzislaw Beksinski, converted to grayscale.

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:20 am

Mines's much crappier than most of yours, but I'll tell ya:

It's from a scanned gun safety flier with some hysterical translations:

"Never shoot as joking, always look before shoot. The careless use may cause injure and be punished". Classic!

I think it came off of Google image bank, but I'm no longer sure. I've got a whole series of these pictures that I'll probably throw on as the whim hits me.

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:35 am

MadSteelDarkness wrote:It's from a scanned gun safety flier with some hysterical translations:

"Never shoot as joking, always look before shoot. The careless use may cause injure and be punished". Classic!

That reminds me of when I was working near a helicopter landing pad, and came across a safety poster with illustrations, warning people of the subtle hazards of being decapitated by the spinning blades.

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:01 am

It's a government ninja from the anime movie Ninja Scroll. First time I saw the movie I didn't care much for it, but I guess in the past few years I've drifted away from movies that actually require some intelligence and lean towards the mindless blood-fest of movies such as Ninja Scroll; besides, shadowy ninjas in lightning look supa cool!

greg · Post by **greg** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:23 am

Since I'll eventually change my avatar, I'll post my current one here to prevent confusion down the road:

If you can't see it well, it's a boy in rain gear holding an umbrella with a cat hiding on his head, and a little froggy next to him. I forget the title of this, but it's a work from the favorite artist of my wife's and mine, Seiji Fujishiro. His art is both cute and surreal, with classic Japanese minimalism. It's called kiri-e which uses cut paper as a medium. It's silhouette art. His museums are dark, with light shining from behind the artworks. He creates worlds of fantasy and beauty and innocence, with elves, insects, fish, cats, you name it. My wife and I have his art all over our apartment.

Here's more I've written about this artist on my homepage:
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~uw7g-bwr/life/life18.htm

alpha5099 · Post by **alpha5099** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:36 am

Mine is Señor Tusken Raider, who sits on my desk. I had this cheap, hollow Tusken Raider figure I bought years ago, and I got this bottle of salsa that came with a tiny sombrero. I was going to put the sombrero on my Godzilla action figure, but it wouldn't stay. But the little spikes around the Tusken Raider's head kept the hat in place, and so was born Señor Tusken Raider.

How he came to an avatar, both here and on my LJ, I no longer remember. I like him, he's a recognizable character, he's a good avatar.

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:59 am

Ha, I always thought that Tusken Raider was just some puppy hound dog...with thos "ears" and big, deep black eyes...so cute!

But it really is a tusken, isn't it

cigsthecat · Post by **cigsthecat** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:10 am

Cigarettes the Cat, of course. From the inside flap of one of the Spumco Comic Books.

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:14 am

That reminds me of when I was working near a helicopter landing pad, and came across a safety poster with illustrations, warning people of the subtle hazards of being decapitated by the spinning blades.

That's awesome! I'd love to see that flier. I just thought of that bit from the original Dawn of the Dead, when the zombie slowly advances toward one of the protagonists as they're refueling the helicopter, only to have the blades shear the zombie's head off. I always LMAO at that bit.

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:48 am

My favorite canto-pop singer Miriam Yeung.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:08 am

My avatar originally was a blotter paper with a picture of Albert Hofman on it. He's the man who originally synthesized LSD. Now it's Agoraphobic Nosebleed... awesome, awesome band.

Reiki · Post by **Reiki** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:43 am

Acid King wrote:Now it's Agoraphobic Nosebleed... awesome, awesome band.

Fuck yeah.

PlasmaDancer · Post by **PlasmaDancer** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:21 pm

Mine is the same avatar that I had decided on mere seconds (slight exaggeration) before the old forum met its demise. I was trying to choose something that complemented my username...I had an image in my head of a ship jinking through a bullet cloud at first, but manic shmup screenshots don't translate too well to avatar sized pics. After discarding one of Vanessa Schneider (literally 'plasma dancing'), I've instead plumped for a bit of psychadelic craziness from Tempest 3000.

Gozer · Post by **Gozer** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:29 pm

Sparkster from the Rocket Knight Adventures series.

gmw · Post by **gmw** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:02 pm

The avatar I use on all sites I post on - Jinguuji Saburou from the classic Japanese detective adventure game series Tantei Jinguuji Saburou.

King Slime · Post by **King Slime** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:31 pm

My avatar is the robot Gort from the old 1950s movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

zimeon · Post by **zimeon** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:39 am

Reimu Hakurei from the Shrine Maiden series. Or at least, her legs. It kind of reflects my reaction when I play shmups: "w000t!? How am I supposed to avoid all these friggin' bullets?"

Post by **system11** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:56 am

Mine is the cover of an old album - Medusa by Clan Of Xymox. Still a great record too.

Shearie · Post by **Shearie** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:46 pm

Mine is the old demon guy from Legend of the Overfiend. I am most likely going to change it soon.

sethsez · Post by **sethsez** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:11 pm

WHEN THERE IS NO MORE ROOM IN HELL...

THE DEAD WILL WALK THE EARTH!

It's the head from the original Dawn of the Dead.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:50 pm

A random robot "helper" from Futurama.

FRO · Post by **FRO** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:40 pm

My original avatar was Snake Man from Megaman 3.

My current avatar is the album cover for "Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance", my fav album from my favorite band, Tourniquet. They are a Christian progressive-thrash metal band that has put out a lot of high-quality albums. This particular release is from 1992 and is still a killer album.

OptimusPrimeX · Post by **OptimusPrimeX** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:25 am

Optimus Prime

a hand drawn different version of optimus prime. And i'm still not sure where this picture is from. Either a comic spin off of a Transformers series,another japanese artists rendition of OptimusPrime, or from one of the JDM cartoon series'.

I use this avatar on most message boards. I get the X in my name because at one time i started a Fan-Fic of Transformers, and i was going to draw a comic based on an Alternative OptimusPrime.. that was X communicated when he didn't get picked as leadar of the Autobots. Still something i want to do, but haven't had a chance

dpful · Post by **dpful** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:45 pm

Mine's from some arcade flyer on the net. I love arcade games.

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