'Tute's 2007 Av & Sig Archives

[Lostitute]

Well, I found out the hard way that vBulletin doesn't allow more than 51 images in a single post, so if you're lookin' for my highly newbish to not-too-shabby-at-all efforts from 2007, you've come to the right place!

Click the link to visit my current Av & Sig Gallery (http://www.losttv-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41159).

Avatars



I joined Lost-TV in December 2006. Bein' a huge ABBA fan, I chose the following design for my av, which was used as the backdrop for ABBA's 1979 North American and European tour, and later as the logo for Polar, ABBA's record label in Sweden (it's also the design featured on the cover of the ABBA DVD In Concert). Here it is, after some work using Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/MyAvatar01_100x100.jpg

However, I really wanted a av that more or less reflected my screen name. Since my screen name is a combination of "Lost" and the term used to refer to a practitioner of the world's oldest profession, I decided a red light would be appropriate. But I didn't have any way to animate it until i found the right (read: free, and easy to use) software, unFREEz (http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/). When I felt comfortable enough with my skills, I made my first red lantern in February 2007:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/MyLantern_01.gif

Bitten by the animation bug, I decided to make some more avs, and decided to use a different av each day from March 1 through March 17. And with St. Patrick's Day approaching, I thought I'd first change the red lantern to a green lantern:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/aa_MyLantern01.gif

Green lantern? Hmm...

Now, since Green Lantern (the Hal Jordan version) was one of my fave superheroes from my childhood, I downloaded a few of pics and made animated avs out of most of 'em:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/GL_Battery_Glow.gif http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/GL_HalsRing_001.gif http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/GL_AlexRoss.gif

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/GL_RingFire_02.gif http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/SpaceGlow2.gif http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/GL_RingFire_01.gif

And yes, I cheated...I used the same pic twice:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/GL_Ring_Glow.gif http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/GL_Ring_Fire.gif

I also made one each of Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern from the 1940s, and John Stewart, the GL featured in the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited cartoons:
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/GLAlan_01.gif http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/GL_JS_Waistup.gif

Along the way, I did these glowing green lights...

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/GreenPendant_Glow.gif http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/GreenPorchLight.gif


...and also managed to make some avs based on more traditional St. Paddy's Day designs...

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Shamrock2.gif http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Gold_001.gif http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/PotOfGold_002.gif

...including this non-animated av:

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/7509/copyofgreenbeerve8.jpg

Going back to the Green Lantern motif, I used this one for March 17th, based on the original inspiration, Green Lantern's, um...green lantern:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/GL_HalsBattery02.gif

Then, on March 18th, it was back to the red lantern motif:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/RedLantern_NewAv_0002.gif

After downloading more advanced (and free) animation software (Beneton Movie GIF (http://software.benetonfilms.com/Beneton_Movie_GIF/)), I made this version of the red lantern, which I used as my primary av from late spring to early fall 2007:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/aaaaaNewAv_GIF_07.gif

Signed up to play Fancy Monkey's Lost-TV Survivor II (http://www.losttv-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37654) game during summer 2007. Liz was the captain of my team, The Dharma Initiative, and designed this very nice-lookin' av (http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/aaaaaLTVSII-Dharma_Av.jpg) as part of the game's first challenge. Later in the game, FM allowed us to drop our buffs, but I decided to apply my own touch to the pic Liz had used, and displayed this for a few weeks:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Av_Karl_Room23.gif

For Hallowe'en 2007, I decided my av should reflect that holiday, but dressin' it up with a witch's hat, or as a ghost, or even as a bat or anything else, proved to be impractical. I wanted to keep the flashing beam of light motif as well. So, fanboy that I am, I changed the lantern to the Batsignal in early October:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/aaaBatSignal_Halloween_UseTHIS.gif

In mid-October 2007, I got myself involved in Truffula's Dharma/Hanso vs. Mittelos Bioscience game, so the Batsignal became the DharmaSignal:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/DharmaSignal_better.gif

During the Lost hiatus, I started watching Heroes, and got hooked. One of the things I noticed was a round window in Mohinder Suresh's apartment (http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Heroes_MohindarsApt_GLWindow.jpg) in Brooklyn, New York, which looked suspiciously like Green Lantern's emblem. So now, I've made this av, which ties together my fandom for Green Lantern and Heroes, yet still features the red lantern motif:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/NewAv3.gif

Christmastime...which means it's time for a Christmas av (keeping the elements of my Heroes-inspired av intact as well):

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/ChristmasAv_07_USETHIS2.gif

[Lostitute]

Signatures

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Click the link to visit my current Av & Sig Gallery (http://www.losttv-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41159).

At the same time I decided I wanted to make my own animated GIF for my av, I decided to use animated GIFs in my sig. Here's the first version:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Arcade_Green_YellowLetters.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Banner_Original_NonAnimated_Slice_T.jpghttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Bottles_Top.jpg
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Oasis_Oasis3.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Banner_Original_NonAnimated_Slice_z.jpghttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Bottles_zBottom.jpg

Then I raised the bar for myself, with 4 animated GIFs in my sig (one for the Arcade, one for the Oasis, one for the blinking light (with help from LostVoyeur), and one for the Keeper items):

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Arcade_RedLightsRainbowLetters.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/TopBanner_v2_blinking.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Bottles_Top.jpg
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Oasis_Oasis3.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/BottomBanner_ScrollingItems.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Bottles_zBottom.jpg

And, for the 17 days leading up to St. Patrick's Day, the Arcade button and the central part of my sig went green, also:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Arcade_GreenLightsYellowLetters.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/TopBanner_StPats_blinking.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Bottles_Top.jpg
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Oasis_Oasis3.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/BottomBanner_StPats_scrolling.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Bottles_zBottom.jpg


After St. Patrick's Day, I had a new sig ready (again, thanks to LostVoyeur for help animating the central portion of the sig):

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/OasisGIF.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/BannerGIF.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/BottlesButton.jpg

Then, it was time for me to fly solo, doin' all my own animation:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/OasisGIF.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/NewSig02.gif

After a while, I redesigned my sig. A number of Oasians admired what I'd done, and requested I make similar sigs for them too. Here's the one I did for Catnap:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/LTV_Oasis_01_Left_02.jpghttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/StandaloneOasis_01.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/LTV_Oasis_03_Right_Catnap.jpg

Recently, I redesigned my sig (again), keeping the basic format of the above sig, and adding the Keeper items from the earlier sigs:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Oasis10112007_01_Left_11kb.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Oasis10112007_02_Middle_391kb.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Oasis10112007_03_Right_127kb.gif

In mid-October 2007, I got involved in Truffula's Dharma/Hanso vs. Mittelos Bioscience game. The game started, in a way, when a one Karen DeGroot posted that she looking for her husband, Gerald. Alvar Hanso made his presence known, and that he and Karen were in alliance with one another. Using that premise, I made this sig, combining the Hanso Foundation's stylized "O" with the Dharma Initiative's bagua for the central portion:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/zAlvar.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/BlackWhiteBagua.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/zDeGroots.gif

November 2007...Back to my regular sig, but with the Keeper section updated to reflect my Heroes items.

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Oasis10112007_01_Left_11kb.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/Oasis10112007_02_Middle_391kb.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/zzzOasis_ChristmasSig_03_Keeper.gif

Christmastime...and it usually doesn't snow in IwBl's Desert Oasis (and, in the RW, it usually doesn't snow where I live, either). The white stuff is kinda pretty at this time of year, so...

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/OasisChristmasSig_01_Goddess_Hat.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/OasisChristmasSig_02_Mirages.gifhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/OasisChristmasSig_03_Keeper_3.gif

2Lost_MayB (a.k.a. May:bear: ) strong-armed convinced me to participate in the 2007 Lostaways Banner Exchange. Participants were assigned a fellow LTV Christmas exchange participant to design a sig for, and we were ordered asked to have them in by December 23. At that time I didn't have mine (got it a day late, but it was well worth it), so I decided to use the following sig in the interim, one I'd intended to use starting in January 2008:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/Danno001/MyStuff/ArtGalleryYellowBorder5_10cs.gif

[Brian]

Closing and moving.