Design A Member Avatar - Photoshop Contest [13 entries]

Winning entry, with a score of:

72.2%

Contest goal:

Here on Pxleyes we use an avatar as our own personal symbol of identity. In this contest you can design an avatar for yourself or for another member. It can have significant meaning to the member or just an image you like and think would be a nice way for that member to be recognized.

It can be a static image or an animated gif.
Show your entry image at a good viewing size. Keep in mind that the final actual size of the avatar in use will be max resolution: 100x100pixels with a max file size: 25kb.

Don't state whose avatar you have designed! Just for fun members can guess whose it may be but don't acknowledge any guesses until the contest is finished!
After the contest your new avatar can be added by going to "PROFILE", then "my details". Since this is a contest the usual rules apply. No copyrighted images etc.

Status: finished. Check out the winners below!

pingenvy: I'm working on an avatar. The smallest it will go is 33k @ 100x 100 pixels. suggestions? ( 5 years and 1655 days ago )

spaceranger: Save your psd to a jpeg 100x100 at 72dpi. Then save that as a gif by selecting "Save for Web & Devices..." from the Photoshop File menu. Be sure to select 256 colors in the gif save menu, That should work. If it's still too big reduce the number of colors. ( 5 years and 1654 days ago )

Contest Moderator: Please read this forumpost about our PS contests http://www.pxleyes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5570 ( 5 years and 1654 days ago )

Howdie stranger!
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Hiii - created by hereisanoop

Favs: 7

SBS: 1

Hi-res

Rank: 1/13

Score: 72.2% (43)

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Please see in high resolution ..
Drawn in ps with wacom tablet, Used a metal background for the texture to paint the face. (5 years and 1644 days ago)

1 Source:

1: Texture, Thannks to Kobus van Wyk

28 Comments

Avatar, kid, navi

True Colors - created by spaceranger

Favs: 3

SBS: 4

Hi-res

Rank: 2/13

Score: 66.6% (32)

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Sometimes the name is the key to an avatar. The description does say "Just for fun members can guess ..." and there are a couple in this contest that use the members name in the design and are obviously not anonymous even though the authors are. I wanted to use this members colors which are also his name so I knew it would be obvious anyway.

The colors green, red and blue used are secondary colors in CMYK printing (see SBS). (5 years and 1642 days ago)

3 Sources:

17 Comments

CMYK46 says:

Wow...the CMYK of 3000AD...the shades have evolved into a green third eye! Good construction & SBS, gotta love the eye beam.

author says:

Thanks Bob! I thought you'd like a change from the egg jokes Gotta go back to work... (hmmm now where can I find some good egg sources...)

(5 years and 1641 days ago)

George55 says:

Wow... Some day in the future I will be doing things like this... I hope. Very good work. Your SBS are the best....

author says:

Don't sell yourself short George you do excellent work. I've seen you grow and improve over the years and you just keep getting better! I had a good source to start with and that's often a matter of luck.

If you never tried animation I recommend checking out this tutorial:
http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/build-animated-gifs-in-photoshop/

It's very basic and easy to understand and even shows you how to "tween" your animations. It also has a download for the original PSD file so you can see exactly how it's done. It's a lot of fun too! Reminds me of school days when I'd draw cartoons on the page corners of my text books to make "flip book" style animations.

(5 years and 1641 days ago)

hereisanoop says:

Good creation... I see CMYK has got a lot fans around here ...

author says:

Thanks Anoop! Yes Bob has been around here for a long time and is pretty well known plus he's been the subject in other avatar contests like this one:
http://www.pxleyes.com/photoshop-contest/6169/avatar-wars.html

(5 years and 1641 days ago)

CMYK46 says:

I was hoping my 'No Avatar' conceptual piece might have won that contest, but it sure got a great response!

madamemonty says:

Congrats on 2nd Space

author says:

Thanks Megan!

(5 years and 1637 days ago)

George55 says:

Congratulations my friend....

author says:

Thank you George!

(5 years and 1637 days ago)

oziipop says:

Lol yup...pretty cool!

author says:

Thanks oziipop!

(5 years and 1637 days ago)

CMYK46 says:

Good job, congrats!

author says:

Thanks Bob!

(5 years and 1637 days ago)

hereisanoop says:

Congrats...

author says:

Thank you Anoop!

(5 years and 1637 days ago)

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Progress - created by oziipop

Favs: 3

SBS: 19

Hi-res

Rank: 3/13

Score: 64.1% (25)

14288 views

(5 years and 1650 days ago)

13 Comments

double avatar - created by Verikakis

Favs: 0

SBS: 8

Hi-res

Rank: 4/13

Score: 63.2% (20)

12691 views

(5 years and 1641 days ago)

6 Comments

IMO - created by oziipop

Favs: 2

SBS: 6

Hi-res

Rank: 5/13

Score: 61% (15)

14703 views

no sources except you know who. ;) (5 years and 1650 days ago)

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