Playoff Avatars - finally have a theme finished - contact Shaft or Styles for requests!

[CallMeShaft]

Can we make JC our theme?

No.

 

[CallMeShaft]

What do yall think of these as a rough draft?

 

[CallMeShaft]

Edit: Better version

 

[Kevin Musto]

Made this, but the 55KB limit is impossible to work with.

 

[CallMeShaft]

Made this, but the 55KB limit is impossible to work with.

Not bad, but yeah, the limit with HF is giving me a lot of issues.

Tried dropping the size of this to 96x96 (the size HF changes a gif/image to fit as an avatar), and tried to optimize in a few different ways to get it to work, but no luck.

 

[featherhawk]

Please tell me you’re not using this site without an adblocker. I mean is it even possible to make a post her with all the ads and no adblocker?

Yes, IMAC...

 

[featherhawk]

Guys, we're dumb-dumbs. We're missing the obvious one.

Caggiula/Manning trade

That's it. Just avatars that highlight that trade. Even if we lose this series, we're in the net positive over them from that fleecing alone.

as I began to read the thread this is exactly what I was thinking.

 

[featherhawk]

I think I got it boys. The options are endless.

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ha ha, this is gold, just reduce the amount of font on the second one its too busy. something like: You want us to Spill the Oil, give me a hell yeah!

I think the first one may also sound better without if: You want the #1 pick (in the draft), give me a hell yeah!...what is in the brackets is not necessary IMO

@CallMeShaft you must add this one to the list to choose from

 

[CallMeShaft]

@CallMeShaft you must add this one to the list to choose from

The thing is I have no idea how to make a theme, as in multiple avatars, using that. I assume it's just keeping the words and swapping out random images of WWE's Stonecold, but I'm not sure myself.

If that's what the group wants (and in relatively close time to now), great. But there has been little discussion here, so if people really want to go that way, they gotta speak up right now, and I would need Styles to take the reigns a bit with this, this way I have a clear idea of where he's going with his theme and also so he can reformat that gif, because it'll need to be perfectly even size wise and without any of the wording cropped out.

Also I have no idea if the "if you want the to see us beat" is purposefully grammatically confusing. Like I said, it's not my theme, but I'm open to it if we can finally all come to a quick decision on it and if Styles wants to take charge a bit, at least until I get my footing with his theme.

 

[CallMeShaft]

I'm rocking an old Windows 8 laptop because my newer one, a Windows 10, had it's hinges crack apart (thanks HP), so I don't know how big of a bitch downloading gifs is for people who don't run ancient hardware, but it was quite the challenge figuring out a way to do so for me (and since HF's reboot a year or two ago, they require you to download your avatar instead of just linking a url address).

So even though we don't really have our theme totally nailed down yet, I'm just gonna share what I did to get my practice avatars downloaded as gifs, in case anyone is confused later (or I forget).

Copy the url address of the avatar you want, go to this site, input the url address in the bar, don't change the size but instead go to the floppy drive icon and hit save. Save the file and hit the 'avatar' button on HF's site, look for the file you just downloaded (likely be in downloads and be the most recent thing you downloaded).

You're welcome, future me.

Edit: Just did it a similar way with android. Couldn't get it before, but if I hold down on an image, go to the image's link, copy said link and insert it to that site listed above and hit to save, I can download the gif like that. Then it's a matter of finding the file and hitting okay on HF.

 

[featherhawk]

The thing is I have no idea how to make a theme, as in multiple avatars, using that. I assume it's just keeping the words and swapping out random images of WWE's Stonecold, but I'm not sure myself.

If that's what the group wants (and in relatively close time to now), great. But there has been little discussion here, so if people really want to go that way, they gotta speak up right now, and I would need Styles to take the reigns a bit with this, this way I have a clear idea of where he's going with his theme and also so he can reformat that gif, because it'll need to be perfectly even size wise and without any of the wording cropped out.

Also I have no idea if the "if you want the to see us beat" is purposefully grammatically confusing. Like I said, it's not my theme, but I'm open to it if we can finally all come to a quick decision on it and if Styles wants to take charge a bit, at least until I get my footing with his theme.

different wrestlers, different phrases...

 

[CallMeShaft]

different wrestlers, different phrases...

Okay, so more just a general wrestling theme then.

If enough people want to go that way, then hopefully they'll speak up. Not big on wrestling myself, but I wouldn't deny going in that direction if that's what the consensus here is.

Again, I just need to know pretty f***ing quick one way or the other. Blues scrimmage is a week from Wednesday and I probably won't have time to do any of these this weekend so the clock's ticking.

 

[featherhawk]

Okay, so more just a general wrestling theme then.

If enough people want to go that way, then hopefully they'll speak up. Not big on wrestling myself, but I wouldn't deny going in that direction if that's what the consensus here is.

Again, I just need to know pretty f***ing quick one way or the other. Blues scrimmage is a week from Wednesday and I probably won't have time to do any of these this weekend so the clock's ticking.

to be fair I am not at all a wrestling fan at this point, perhaps 15-20 years ago yes but I thought there is potential with what @Styles cooked up....

I like many of the themes.

 

[CallMeShaft]

Made this, but the 55KB limit is impossible to work with.

Did it. Dropped the size to what HF allows (96x96) and, for some reason, each image seemed to have been duplicated a few dozen times. So I changed it so each image only has one frame and lowered the speed a bit. Came in at just over 30kbs this way. Looks pretty good too IMO.

 

[Styles]

@CallMeShaft I say just do your theme. It’s easy enough. I can spit out some avatars throughout the week when I’m bored. If anyone wants something specific just give me the images you want and idea. It only takes a few minutes.

Heres one I just thought of.

 

[Muffinalt]

Thanks for all your efforts @CallMeShaft and @Styles! Digging the designs.

Also how f***ing great does Lafreniere look in those Hawks jerseys...

 

[Styles]

I will put all of mine here.

 

[CallMeShaft]

@Styles a lot of good ones being churned out by you already.

Where the hell were you the previous two post-seasons when I was mostly doing this shit solo? An extra set of hands, especially ones who knows what the hell they're doing, would've been nice.

 

[Styles]

@Styles a lot of good ones being churned out by you already.

Where the hell were you the previous two post-seasons when I was mostly doing this shit solo? An extra set of hands, especially ones who knows what the hell they're doing, would've been nice.

I joined right before the Nashville series....

 

[CallMeShaft]

I joined right before the Nashville series....

Don't make excuses...

 

[Kaners Bald Spot]

How are you guys getting the image in your avatars? The site is rejecting mine because it's a gif.

 

[Kevin Musto]

#AllforOne

 

[CallMeShaft]

How are you guys getting the image in your avatars? The site is rejecting mine because it's a gif.

What site, HF? If so, follow what I wrote on post #85 of this thread.

 

[Kaners Bald Spot]

What site, HF? If so, follow what I wrote on post #85 of this thread.

It's not giving me the option for an image URL. Download only.

 

[Kevin Musto]

Here it is, boys. The ultimate gif.