The New Fangled Avatar Factory & Bar

[Ed Kolis]

Annette, if you're gonna be a Copyright Nazi (tm), surely you'd thus delete my avatar (it's from the British sci-fi series "Red Dwarf"), and probably yours as well (looks like something off a WWII recruitment poster, probably belongs to the US Government and you don't want THEM on your bad side!) :P

[S.R. Krol]

Originally Posted by Annette

Shrapnel Games would need to have written documentation from the copyright holder to be able to host their images on our site. And it's really not of interest to us to seek permission to host images from other games. After all, our developers hired us to promote their games, no? While AoW is a great game enjoyed by users here and our developers alike, I just don't think it's a good idea .

It's more than copyright issues though, Ed, it's promoting another company's competing product, even if indirectly.

[Edi]

David, would you modify this picture for me, please?



My current avatar is a downsized version of that, it's another one of the AoW pics. A 64x64 or 80x80 version with that frame would go very nicely and then I'd have a shrapnelified version, all shiny and official looking. I'm not sure which size would be better, so if you did both, I would very much appreciate it.

[David E. Gervais]

First,.. here is your avatar Edi..



Cheers!

P.S. I flipped it to face into the threads.. it's just the way I see the avatars. if you want it flipped back let me know.

[Edi]

Originally Posted by David E. Gervais

First,.. here is your avatar Edi..



Cheers!

P.S. I flipped it to face into the threads.. it's just the way I see the avatars. if you want it flipped back let me know.

That is very, very good as is. No need to flip it back. Thank you!

[David E. Gervais]

Here is another batch of avatars,.. (before I get to making the AoW ones)








Cheers!

[Xrati]

David, what happened to all the old avatars?

[David E. Gervais]

Annette, I have been trying to find a larger version of your avatar with no success. Was it part of the old forums 'cannon' avatars that got installed with the software in ages gone past? As you have seen, I did manage to find a few old 'Recreuiting posters' to make avatars, but still have not found the one you have. Do you know if it's a USO poster? Rockwell painting? or just some obscure war poster and that pose has been cropped from it? I'd really like to find a larger version of your avatar.

Cheers!

Xrati, the old avatars should still be around somewhere.. did you try scanning the old avatar emporium thread?

[Annette]

Originally Posted by Ballbarian

DG,
I don't know if she wants it or not, but I found Annette's old avatar on google if you want to retouch it.



Annette,
Am I remembering right that you posted somewhere about losing the link to your old avatar? If not, please ignore this.

Originally Posted by David E. Gervais

I don't think the old avatar turned out good when I enlarged it, so I found something else that might work,.. what do you think Annette?



Think this one captures the spirit of the old avatar?

Cheers!

Originally Posted by David E. Gervais

Annette, I have been trying to find a larger version of your avatar with no success. Was it part of the old forums 'cannon' avatars that got installed with the software in ages gone past? As you have seen, I did manage to find a few old 'Recreuiting posters' to make avatars, but still have not found the one you have. Do you know if it's a USO poster? Rockwell painting? or just some obscure war poster and that pose has been cropped from it? I'd really like to find a larger version of your avatar.

Cheers!

Xrati, the old avatars should still be around somewhere.. did you try scanning the old avatar emporium thread?

I did lose my link to my avatar, Balbarian, and found it in the photo album you posted. Thank you! Quite frankly, David, I've had it so long I don't remember where it came from I think it was a stock Shrapnel avatar from 2000. I appreciate your effort on the new one, but she's a bit too...um...heavenly. But now that I think about it, maybe that's what I need - to seek mercy on my soul every time I post in these here forums...

[Gandalf Parker]

Its not so much Annette being a copyright nazi as Shrapnel being a copyright nazi. Company liability tends to override personal choices. What they do on their own desktop might be quite different than what they do on a publicly viewable server.

From what Ive seen, alot of this stuff is not a problem until someone openly declares where it came from.