Does anyone know where to get little animations for your Avatar?? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

08-08-2002, 05:58 AM

Hey everyone,
does anyone know where to get some cool lil animations that i can use for my avatar?? thanks,

~*Tali*~

The Green Ringwraith · 08-08-2002, 08:14 AM

I'll make one for ya! Otherwise... just search around the 'Net... click "file" then "open" and type in 'animations'! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

08-13-2002, 07:52 AM

I would be interested in getting an avatar, too. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Durialion · 08-13-2002, 08:19 AM

What is an Anatar?

ElfEarz · 08-13-2002, 03:09 PM

the picture by your name is an avatar

Arien · 03-13-2003, 12:22 PM

Try here

Elanor · 03-13-2003, 12:27 PM

Try this (it's how I found mine):
when you see someone's avatar that you quite like, right click on it, choose Properties, and get the name. Then copy and paste that into the address bar on top of your screen, and you will find the website where they got theirs. Then you are free to look around the rest of that site and pick a different avatar that you like. It beats doing loads of searches on Yahoo or Google or whatever.

Mine came from http://www.bestanimations.com

Hope that helps!

Darkside · 03-13-2003, 10:12 PM

I'm just checking to see if mine works. If I don't have a nifty little picture under my name, what exactly are you supposed to type into the picture line in the profile?

Thanks!

Yippee! It worked! Thanks for the links! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ March 13, 2003: Message edited by: Darkside ]

Hirilaelin · 03-13-2003, 11:54 PM

Just posting to see if the avatar works...

By the way, thanks for all the links guys!

Quirkette · 03-17-2003, 01:41 AM

I haven't the slightest clue how to do it, and being as I'm so impatient, I think I'll never have an avatar. So in the future, if you should see a post of mine, imagine next to it a picture of A TOTAL CLUELESS SPAZZ.

Thank you in advance!

Hathalas Ashen-Shield · 03-17-2003, 09:18 PM

Yea thanks for the bestanimations website, theres some good stuff there!

Adutincowen · 03-18-2003, 06:51 PM

Can anyone tell me how to put one on??? I'm totally computer illiterate... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Quirkette · 03-18-2003, 06:59 PM

So am I. I would like that, too. Even though I'm sure you'd do well just imagining a picture of a TOTAL CLUELESS SPAZZ by my post. Thanks guys for showing where to get the pictures, but what do I do to put one up?

Hirilaelin · 03-18-2003, 07:24 PM

My avatar isn't working, but it was just a few posts ago. What's wrong!? AHHHHHHHHHHH!!! the red x my preciousss, we hates it, we hates it forever!!!

[ March 18, 2003: Message edited by: Hirilaelin ]

Estelyn Telcontar · 03-19-2003, 04:22 AM

For basic instructions on putting up an avatar, please see the Forum FAQ thread.

Eressië Ailin · 03-19-2003, 10:06 PM

~HOW TO GET AN AVATAR IN JUST 10 EASY STEPS~

1. You have to find a picture online that you like (well, not really. you just have to find a picture online).

2. Right-click on the picture.

3. You should see a little drop-down list. Click on your last choice, 'Properties.'

4. A box-thingy should pop up. A little tab at the top should say, 'General' and the rest should say:

Protocol: (whatever it says)

Type: (GIF/JPEG Image)

Address: (Here it says the URL. Highlight it, and copy it.)
(URL)

5. Go back to the Barrow-Downs.

6. Click on 'my profile.'

7. Click on '>> View/Update Profile <<'

8. Paste the URL of the picture underneath 'OR enter your own image URL (support: .gif .jpg .png .swf).'

9. Scroll down, and cilck the button that says 'View/Update prolfile.'

10. YAAAAYY!!! You have an Avatar!! Now go show it off to the world!!!

Quirkette · 03-20-2003, 12:43 AM

Thank you Eressie! I finally finally did it, thanks to you! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Eressië Ailin · 03-20-2003, 12:57 AM

I can see yours, Sophia. It's purple lightning! Fun!!

BTW, Quirkette, who is that in your avatar? She's kinda freaky lookin'... Is she that lady in the black-and-white Pyscho?

I'm a SHADE!!!! GO MEEEE!!!!!

Quirkette · 03-20-2003, 03:27 AM

Yes, it's Janet Leigh from "Psycho", the shower scene. I thought it was a bit of a hoot. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

secretfire · 03-31-2003, 06:40 AM

Here's me trying out a candle avatar and a new sig.

After a few short minutes: Oh gosh it's a thing of beauty! Thank you, Eressië Ailin. I followed your 10 steps. Very easy to follow.

P.S. If somebody else has this avatar, please PM me so I can find a different one.

[ March 31, 2003: Message edited by: secretfire ]

Tinuviel87 · 04-03-2003, 08:26 PM

Please ignore me... trying to figure out what has goen wrong with my avatar that was so very thrilling only moments ago...*Crosses fingers* please work...If you see a purple unicorn running clap for me because my extremely untechnical brain made this work...if not shed a tear or two [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Eressië Ailin · 04-03-2003, 09:30 PM

*claps* I can see it!

I feel important! The 10 steps thing was possibly one of the only useful posts of mine. Anytime!

Cherie Centaur · 04-06-2003, 08:27 AM

Argh! I can't find any with centaurs! Help me! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

This will have to do till I find one that works. *pouts and hangs her head*

[ April 06, 2003: Message edited by: Cherie Centaur ]

Eressië Ailin · 04-07-2003, 10:05 PM

Mordor_Queen, I can finally see yours; it's one of my favorites, although it's been used by quite a few people before.

Cherie Centaur, I think your current avatar is lovely.

Vardamar · 04-09-2003, 08:08 AM

Testing

Dont forget that some site have bandwith limitations, if they are exceded, you get a nice red X as your avatar.

08-08-2002, 05:58 AM	#1
Taliethiel Silverleaf Guest Posts: n/a	Does anyone know where to get little animations for your Avatar?? Hey everyone, does anyone know where to get some cool lil animations that i can use for my avatar?? thanks, ~Tali~

08-08-2002, 08:14 AM	#2
The Green Ringwraith Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: On the edge of the world I'll roam and the home of the wolf will be my home. Posts: 77	I'll make one for ya! Otherwise... just search around the 'Net... click "file" then "open" and type in 'animations'! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ -What is it about the Green ones?- "...they fell under the dominion of the One, and they became Ringwraiths... This one just got a little too gamma ray happy."

08-13-2002, 08:19 AM	#4
Durialion Animated Skeleton Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Lothlorien Posts: 42	What is an Anatar? __________________ Durialion the High Elf "I wish the ring had never come to me and this adventure had never happened." Frodo "So do all who live to see these times, but you have to decide what to do when the time comes." Gandalf

08-13-2002, 03:09 PM	#5
ElfEarz Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 50	the picture by your name is an avatar __________________ -ash nazg durbatukuj,ash nazg gimbatul,ash nazg thrakatuluk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

03-13-2003, 12:22 PM	#6
Arien Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: London/Leeds UK Posts: 417	Try here __________________ "...still, we lay under the emptiness and drifted slowly outward, and somewhere in the wilderness we found salvation scratched into the earth like a message."

08-13-2002, 07:52 AM	#3
Nuuriel Guest Posts: n/a	I would be interested in getting an avatar, too. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

03-13-2003, 12:27 PM	#7
Elanor Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: my own corner of the Shire Posts: 316	Try this (it's how I found mine): when you see someone's avatar that you quite like, right click on it, choose Properties, and get the name. Then copy and paste that into the address bar on top of your screen, and you will find the website where they got theirs. Then you are free to look around the rest of that site and pick a different avatar that you like. It beats doing loads of searches on Yahoo or Google or whatever. Mine came from http://www.bestanimations.com Hope that helps! __________________ "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." Henny Youngman (1906 - )

03-13-2003, 10:12 PM	#8
Darkside Animated Skeleton Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Humid Orlando Posts: 34	I'm just checking to see if mine works. If I don't have a nifty little picture under my name, what exactly are you supposed to type into the picture line in the profile? Thanks! Yippee! It worked! Thanks for the links! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [ March 13, 2003: Message edited by: Darkside ] __________________ "But it seems impossible, somehow, to feel gloomy or depressed in this place." ~ Pippin

03-13-2003, 11:54 PM	#9
Hirilaelin Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Immersed in a Good Book Posts: 367	Just posting to see if the avatar works... By the way, thanks for all the links guys! __________________ ...so I fired two warning shots. Into his head. - Chicago Let Helky stay! Bree\|Imladris\|guess you'll never know...

03-17-2003, 01:41 AM	#10
Quirkette Haunting Spirit Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: A shotgun shack Posts: 86	I haven't the slightest clue how to do it, and being as I'm so impatient, I think I'll never have an avatar. So in the future, if you should see a post of mine, imagine next to it a picture of A TOTAL CLUELESS SPAZZ. Thank you in advance! __________________ "No food, no rest, nothing for Smeagol," said Gollum. "He's a sneak."

03-17-2003, 09:18 PM	#11
Hathalas Ashen-Shield Pile O'Bones Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Rivendell Posts: 23	Yea thanks for the bestanimations website, theres some good stuff there! __________________ ~And thou Melkor, wilt discover all the secret thoughts of thy mind~ Illuvatar

03-18-2003, 06:51 PM	#12
Adutincowen Pile O'Bones Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: I hail from Middle Earth Posts: 18	Can anyone tell me how to put one on??? I'm totally computer illiterate... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] __________________ * Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs. ~Adutincowen Whitetree~

03-18-2003, 06:59 PM	#13
Quirkette Haunting Spirit Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: A shotgun shack Posts: 86	So am I. I would like that, too. Even though I'm sure you'd do well just imagining a picture of a TOTAL CLUELESS SPAZZ by my post. Thanks guys for showing where to get the pictures, but what do I do to put one up? __________________ "No food, no rest, nothing for Smeagol," said Gollum. "He's a sneak."

03-18-2003, 07:24 PM	#14
Hirilaelin Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Immersed in a Good Book Posts: 367	My avatar isn't working, but it was just a few posts ago. What's wrong!? AHHHHHHHHHHH!!! the red x my preciousss, we hates it, we hates it forever!!! [ March 18, 2003: Message edited by: Hirilaelin ] __________________ ...so I fired two warning shots. Into his head. - Chicago Let Helky stay! Bree\|Imladris\|guess you'll never know...

03-19-2003, 04:22 AM	#15
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	For basic instructions on putting up an avatar, please see the Forum FAQ thread. __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

03-19-2003, 10:06 PM	#16
Eressië Ailin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Past the Point of No Return... Posts: 502	~HOW TO GET AN AVATAR IN JUST 10 EASY STEPS~ 1. You have to find a picture online that you like (well, not really. you just have to find a picture online). 2. Right-click on the picture. 3. You should see a little drop-down list. Click on your last choice, 'Properties.' 4. A box-thingy should pop up. A little tab at the top should say, 'General' and the rest should say: Protocol: (whatever it says) Type: (GIF/JPEG Image) Address: (Here it says the URL. Highlight it, and copy it.) (URL) 5. Go back to the Barrow-Downs. 6. Click on 'my profile.' 7. Click on '>> View/Update Profile <<' 8. Paste the URL of the picture underneath 'OR enter your own image URL (support: .gif .jpg .png .swf).' 9. Scroll down, and cilck the button that says 'View/Update prolfile.' 10. YAAAAYY!!! You have an Avatar!! Now go show it off to the world!!! __________________ Holy angel, in Heaven blessed... My spirit longs with thee to rest! ~Faust Never judge a book by its movie. ~J. W. Eagan By the big slippers of big slipperdom! ~M. Gillenormand, Les Misérables My blog!

03-20-2003, 12:43 AM	#17
Quirkette Haunting Spirit Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: A shotgun shack Posts: 86	Thank you Eressie! I finally finally did it, thanks to you! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ "No food, no rest, nothing for Smeagol," said Gollum. "He's a sneak."

03-20-2003, 12:57 AM	#18
Eressië Ailin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Past the Point of No Return... Posts: 502	I can see yours, Sophia. It's purple lightning! Fun!! BTW, Quirkette, who is that in your avatar? She's kinda freaky lookin'... Is she that lady in the black-and-white Pyscho? I'm a SHADE!!!! GO MEEEE!!!!! __________________ Holy angel, in Heaven blessed... My spirit longs with thee to rest! ~Faust Never judge a book by its movie. ~J. W. Eagan By the big slippers of big slipperdom! ~M. Gillenormand, Les Misérables My blog!

03-20-2003, 03:27 AM	#19
Quirkette Haunting Spirit Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: A shotgun shack Posts: 86	Yes, it's Janet Leigh from "Psycho", the shower scene. I thought it was a bit of a hoot. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ "No food, no rest, nothing for Smeagol," said Gollum. "He's a sneak."

03-31-2003, 06:40 AM	#20
secretfire Pile O'Bones Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 21	Here's me trying out a candle avatar and a new sig. After a few short minutes: Oh gosh it's a thing of beauty! Thank you, Eressië Ailin. I followed your 10 steps. Very easy to follow. P.S. If somebody else has this avatar, please PM me so I can find a different one. [ March 31, 2003: Message edited by: secretfire ] __________________ "Leave now and never come back! (3x)" Dr. Gollum's prescribed mantra against multiple personality disorder.

04-03-2003, 08:26 PM	#21
Tinuviel87 Haunting Spirit Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Heelllloooo Monkey...... Posts: 65	Please ignore me... trying to figure out what has goen wrong with my avatar that was so very thrilling only moments ago...Crosses fingers please work...If you see a purple unicorn running clap for me because my extremely untechnical brain made this work...if not shed a tear or two [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] __________________ Don't Rate Me!(Reverse Psychology?) "And the song of Luthien released the bonds of winter, and the frozen waters spoke, and flowers sprang from the cold earth where her feet had passed..."

04-03-2003, 09:30 PM	#22
Eressië Ailin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Past the Point of No Return... Posts: 502	claps I can see it! I feel important! The 10 steps thing was possibly one of the only useful posts of mine. Anytime! __________________ Holy angel, in Heaven blessed... My spirit longs with thee to rest! ~Faust Never judge a book by its movie. ~J. W. Eagan By the big slippers of big slipperdom! ~M. Gillenormand, Les Misérables My blog!

04-06-2003, 08:27 AM	#23
Cherie Centaur Haunting Spirit Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cottage Cheese near the Gap Posts: 95	Argh! I can't find any with centaurs! Help me! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] This will have to do till I find one that works. pouts and hangs her head [ April 06, 2003: Message edited by: Cherie Centaur ] __________________ Why do we let the monkey slide for popping the weasel? Just because he thought it was fun? Guys, we're dealing with a psycho.

04-07-2003, 10:05 PM	#24
Eressië Ailin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Past the Point of No Return... Posts: 502	Mordor_Queen, I can finally see yours; it's one of my favorites, although it's been used by quite a few people before. Cherie Centaur, I think your current avatar is lovely. __________________ Holy angel, in Heaven blessed... My spirit longs with thee to rest! ~Faust Never judge a book by its movie. ~J. W. Eagan By the big slippers of big slipperdom! ~M. Gillenormand, Les Misérables My blog!

04-09-2003, 08:08 AM	#25
Vardamar Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Right over Here!! No Here!! Yoohoo! Posts: 97	Testing Dont forget that some site have bandwith limitations, if they are exceded, you get a nice red X as your avatar. __________________ Strength without wisdom falls by its own weight.