Muro and pervert_dog

DarkFool · **Posted:** Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:19 am **Post subject:**

I like his current avatar.

Muro · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:43 am **Post subject:**

Xz wrote:

Still hard on the eyes.

OK then, how about a confrontation between the last shining version and a non-glowing one?

SPARKLE ON!

SPARKLE OFF!

Dodgy7 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:10 am **Post subject:**

Muro Lightning wrote:

SKARKLE ON!

For the record, I'm pro skarkle.

I didnt really want to say anything here, as it's obviously none of my damn business as a new guy. However, and correct me if I'm wrong, reading stuff at TA is supposed to hurt a little? (It's a good kind of pain).

Muro · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:30 am **Post subject:**

That was supposed to be the funny part and I made a typo in it? Damn, I knew I should go to sleep and then post it. Fortunately I have this little edit thingy, oh yes I do! :click: Voila!

Dodgy7 wrote:

However, and correct me if I'm wrong, reading stuff at TA is supposed to hurt a little? (It's a good kind of pain).

We're all masochists, in one way or another.

Also, I guess you're the least new new guy around. Like a grandpa in high school.

JustaFishInaJar · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 6:43 am **Post subject:**

Muro Lightning wrote:

That was supposed to be the funny part and I made a typo in it? Damn, I knew I should go to sleep and then post it. Fortunately I have this little edit thingy, oh yes I do! :click: Voila!

Dodgy7 wrote:

However, and correct me if I'm wrong, reading stuff at TA is supposed to hurt a little? (It's a good kind of pain).

We're all masochists, in one way or another.

Also, I guess you're the least new new guy around. Like a grandpa in high school.

Zack Morris once found a guy that would sell really cheap gold class rings and convinced Bayside to buy them, but it turned out to be a scam and the rings were fake and left black marks on the students fingers. Mr. Belding had a field day.

magikot · **Joined:** Aug 29, 2003 **Posts:** 1670

NO SPARKLE!!! VAMPIRES DONT SPARKLE DAMN IT!!! *Stabs rabid Twilight fans*

...wait... this wasn't about twilight sparkles..?

*Stares at littered corpses* Ummm... you didn't see this. Puppy, a little help getting rid of these please?

Gjerdev Ankarus · **Joined:** Sep 16, 2009 **Posts:** 110

Non sparkle looks like shit compared to your current avatar. (Not really bad, [not that it matters] but your current one is definitely preferable to it.)

While I think the sparklage looks pretty damned awesome, I know I'll end up dodging it with my eyes every time I look at one of your posts. I like the idea of resizing the current avvy and leaving it out of the gallery, cheap as it is.

Xz · **Joined:** May 31, 2003 **Posts:** 4996

Mesteut · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:24 am **Post subject:**

Making it general blue is good. However, making only the eye blue didn't work as good.

Perhaps you could try texturing the eye on a light blue color, but I doubt it would work as good as the red.

In fact, here's an example of a nicely textured incorporated eye:

(I) Can't do better, I'm afraid.

Xz · **Joined:** May 31, 2003 **Posts:** 4996

Muro · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:18 pm **Post subject:**

I'm not really a great fan of what I'm about to post, which would be the full version of Xz's suggestion from the previous page, but I believe all suggestions should be visable for everyone. Plus I'm so afraid of the latest pic of Lou he posted minutes ago that I'm also doing it for the sake of self-defense and distracting attention.

Xz · **Joined:** May 31, 2003 **Posts:** 4996

I'm actually a fan of the copping out option. Let's give you the full sized version of your current red avatar, and remove your current one from the gallery.

Muro · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:40 pm **Post subject:**

Just something like this, eh? Gah, I don't know. Cheap techniques are known for being cheap. rroyo didn't need to have his avatar removed from the gallery when he got a custom. A custom is a great thing, but this path would leave a bad aftertaste of being the only member with a semicustom and I'm not sure how I like the feel of that. I know my grumble doesn't have a say, but I'm just giving thoughts for everyone to consider.

EDIT: The pic had some problems. Imageshack apparently doesn't like me these days. Anyway, fixed.

EDIT 2: Why not add a proper, slightly improved sig?

Xz · **Joined:** May 31, 2003 **Posts:** 4996

Well, tell you what: If you find a Lou you want that doesn't hurt people's eyes - you've got yourself a custom.

Mesteut · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:28 pm **Post subject:**

I think I've found why the blue monocle does not look good on it's own. While the monocle is blue, whih is a cold color, the armor is painted in hot colors. Having one cold color in a picture full of hot colors does not look good.

If you could make the armor more blue'ish, and the face a little more grey, then a blue monocle could work.

I should have a go at it when I get home.

rroyo · **Joined:** Oct 14, 2006 **Posts:** 3292

Muro Lightning wrote:

rroyo didn't need to have his avatar removed from the gallery when he got a custom.

Just for clarification: There's considerably more than a resizing involved here.
My avvie was created by cloning a grey-scale version of the Thorvald pic onto an old-looking frame, then adding more hair to the top of the head and the coat and collar below. Afterwards, the complete image was mounted onto a transparancy for use on the forum.
For all intents and purposes, it's a completely new picture and that's why there was no need to remove the original one.

Muro · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:34 pm **Post subject:**

I'm aware of how did the creation of your custom go, rroyo. I'm just saying that although the custom is still Thorvald, there's no problem with Thorvald himself still being in the galleries. I'd like to do something similar, that is still make it a Lou, but a different enough one that it will really be a custom, yet as much as I like my grey&blue contraptions, they don't seem to be approved too much. Ah well.

Xz wrote:

Well, tell you what: If you find a Lou you want that doesn't hurt people's eyes - you've got yourself a custom.

I might have an idea, but I lack time at the moment. Plus I have to think it through. Tomorrow, perhaps. In the meantime we can wait for Mesteut's suggestion, since there may be wisdom in his words.

Mesteut · **Posted:** Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:29 pm **Post subject:**

Tried to make the armor blue, but couldn't make the mutant face greyer. Might've worked if the background and the face went a little "colder", but couldn't manage to do it myself.

Here's the result though:

Muro · **Posted:** Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:54 pm **Post subject:**

I think that the part of the picture under Lou's head which you colored blue is his body, not his armor.

I had two ideas the day before yesterday, yet luckily I didn't have time to post them. Luckily, because now I can see how that which I considered awesome turned out to be meh, while my "jocular Lou" actually looks like "retarded Lou" when there's no normal Lou for comparison. Ah well.

It was said that the least glowing suggestion with the shine was still hard on the eyes. How about this?

TheDavisChanger · **Posted:** Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:33 am **Post subject:**

The blue glare is a bit hard on the eyes, but why not just try it for a brief period? Perhaps people will get used to it.

Xz · **Joined:** May 31, 2003 **Posts:** 4996

Is there a reason you need a fucking shining light in your avatar?

Vorak · **Joined:** Sep 15, 2003 **Posts:** 5679

Why are you taking so much part in this anyway? Its clearly a rule breach.

Muro · **Posted:** Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:51 am **Post subject:**

Xz wrote:

Is there a reason you need a fucking shining light in your avatar?

What can I say? I'm quite a persistant individual. Other ideas have failed me, while this one was generally greeted as awesome as a pic, but a bit too bright as an avatar. I favour this concept as well, and since I wanted to avoid cheap techniques, I tried to improve it little by little to get rid of that stubborn "bit", which seems to be fucking huge. A different reason could be that it would be like a fusion of my two non-custom avatars here, but I realised that just lately.

Vorak wrote:

Why are you taking so much part in this anyway? Its clearly a rule breach.

Why, do you ask? I believe the answer is in this thread already:

As I earlier wrote:

I didn't want to participate in the discussion in this thread (its part about my possible custom, to be exact), for I really like the custom avatar tradition and I didn't want to push the House's thoughts in any direction. I know I'm not the one to judge if I'm worthy or not and I figured that if the avatar will be chosen, that's great, and if not, there's no need to worry - maybe in a next thousand or two I will have more luck.

Yet I can see that the discussion is slow not necessarily because of lack of interest but rather due to it being stuck because of how high standarts were set. To expand: a decision has been made, and a pretty unanimous decision it was ("Muro should stay with Lou"), yet there are no means to bring the said decision into effect - it seems that there's existing fanart of Lou (how in the world is that possible, anyway?) and we lack members bored enough to waste their time on GIMPing. I figured here is where I can come in.

I am aware that I don't have a say (nor would I want to have one really, it would destroy the whole value of the tradition), but lacking a vote doesn't mean I can't give any propositions for the community to consider.

At first I just wanted to share one idea, but then there were suggestions on how it should be improved and pretty much I was the one expected to do those changes, being the provider of the first pic after all.

Grakelin · **Posted:** Tue Nov 03, 2009 4:17 am **Post subject:**

Maybe it's time to just admit that the reason we can't decide on an avatar for you is because you have no personality.

Personally, I like the blue shining light avvy. It's bothersome having to hear people whine about everything lately. Until somebody comes up with a better solution than those really ugly 'default cop-out' amateur photoshop jobs (no offense to any of the makers of them, since I can't do any better. Perhaps Muro's photoshop skill just makes them seem gross in comparison), the shiny blue seems like the best pick.

Why is it hurting people's eyes? There are shines on the basic skin that are more aggravating than that.

EDIT: Mesteut's sig pic is nice, though.

Xiao_Caity · **Posted:** Tue Nov 03, 2009 4:25 am **Post subject:**

Grakelin wrote:

Why is it hurting people's eyes? There are shines on the basic skin that are more aggravating than that.

Not everyone can handle very bright shiny things. Myself included. They literally hurt us, and I for one come here for mental pain, not physical.

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