Now this is a personal preference only, but one thing I like about on-line is the anonymity, with these avatars I think it is better not to use a photo of oneself. It diminishes the mystique of a personality. Male, female, young, old, pretty, pretty ugly, the only time I have every felt I gained from seeing a photo of someone's real world self has been when the person is indisputably and tremendously hot... even then sometimes I think I lost by it. Then there is the issue of the pretty render girl avatar. I like not knowing whether someone is male or female, but I find it disorienting when guys use sexy hot babes or women use sexy hot fellas for their avatar... personal hang up I guess. What about those third and forth and n'th sexers right? I guess I like though if a male puts up a sexy male like Casette has or a female has put up a sexy female like avatar for karen1573. I guess I am lookist as only the pug-ugly can be :) I guess I like the avitars that revel the character but not the identity? I kinda favor non-anthropomorphic avatars but ernyoka1 has a nice one, I am seeing some other I guess. I dunno... are avatars a good thing?

Mine may not be the 'hottest' of visages, but I still like what I see when I look in the mirror. Also, unlike some, I don't feel the need to hide behind a mask, nor behind a pseudonym. This is meant as criticiam of no one, but simply a statement of my personal feelings and tastes. David P. Hoadley

yes, avatars are good IMVHO. I don't troll the galleries very much, so it gives me a chance to see how creative people can be, given the challenge of remaining within the pixel dimensions and kb. :b_smile:

You make some good points. I'm still tring to figure out what to create. Something different and something I can call my own. So many of the ones I see kind of blend together. While a few stand out. I think avatars are a good thing. Look at the fun they have with them over at Daz.

How do you put an avatar in anyway please? I cannot seem to find where. Thanks in advance. Nancy

I enjoy avatars actually. Mr. David P. Hoadley, it's nice to see you :) Personally I find it interesting to see if someone looks "anything" like I'd pictured. It's fun to see the avatars people choose and change to. Mine reflects my personality; I think, and as for being a female avatar, well I think my name gave it away anyway lol.

Hi Nancy just saw your post after I posted, it's in your "my option" link on the top of the forums.

No more Red Xs

Dear Foxseelady; Whatever the shape of the external form you may have inherited, it would seem indeed that you are endowed with a sweet and charming personality. I remain, respectfully yours, David P. Hoadley

Thank you. I just have to find what I want for an avatar now hehe.

Niles, that has got to be one of the weirder avatars, thank you :)

My avatar is the Poser version of me, featured in a few of my images. karen1573, ilona, PurpleJelly and tafsheep will attest that it's a reasonably accurate representation. I also have a photo of me on my homepage so I don't think I give too much away by having an avatar. I don't care if anyone thinks I'm hot or otherwise. Too damn old and cynical for that stuff.

"Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum." Intercourse them if they can't take a joke?

Bobasaur, dude, your signature makes up for you avatar inadequacy ;) Bobasaur! That handle cracks me up absolutely every time I see it. It just makes me smile. Why? Dunno.

Quote - ""Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum." Intercourse them if they can't take a joke?"

Fuck them if they can't take a joke. :)

"De Gustibus non disputatum est." My father used to say it a bit differently. He'd say: "No accounting for taste said the old woman as she kissed the cow." Whatever. Respectfully yours, David P. Hoadley

I use the same avatar in all the forums. It's Truf, my digital alter-ego in some comic strips... WE ARE ARTISTS! DO YOUR OWN AVATAR!! (dphoadley, I think yours can't be more 'own avatar') :D

I like it, my beard and Greek fishermans cap reflect both my Jewish and my yachting background, not to mention that I live on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean. DPH BTW, my daughter e-mailed me to say that it's SNOWING in New York in April. Here in Bat-Yam the whethers rather chilly, so how sunny is it in Spain today?

I have a LOAD of avatars. On LiveJournal you more or less use them instead of smilies, so I always try to find one that fits the post. I think I have 86 or 87 avatars (or, as they call them, icons) Here, given the options for a bigger one, I decided to make a whole new one. Based it on one of my own favourite renders. I also wanted it to reflect the ernyoka1/TrekkieGrrrl thing because it confuses a lot of people. I have used avatars of myself as well, on other sites. But a rendered version and a real pic of me. This one is close to 2 years old now but I still like it: - and it is very much me Some people use a pseudonym, some don't. Avatars, like nicknames/handles, is a very personal thing, at least to some. I like to see the person behind a name, but I also like to see people be creative

Heh... I am evil. I make annoyingly eye-catching animated icons. They're the best web-curse since the blink tag.

Bad weather here in Spain. Raining :cursing:

Niles, that is possibly one of the most creative avatars I've ever seen. Well done ... and thanks for the giggle :)

danamongden, cool. It is like a mini-movie :)

My avatar isn't too exciting but it explains my id name which is from my e-mail address. That's what happens when you have to come up with something in the wee hours of the morning after hours spent getting the PC up and running. I was sitting in a room with my guinea pigs and my tropical fish so "pigfish" was born. The avatar is a cross between Steve's (PoserWorld) guinea pig and the original Poser angelfish.

dphoadley said: I don't feel the need to hide behind a mask, nor behind a pseudonym i think for many people it's not a matter of hiding at all, but more a means of expressing aspects of themselves that legal names and actual photographs don't. that's certainly true for me. this particular avatar is an aye-aye (daubentonia madagascariensis), a seriously endangered species of madagascar lemur which uses echolocation to find grubs in trees. google images has lots of cool pictures of aye-ayes. i like strange and funky things, especially if they're alive. :)

pleonastic - Did you see the toon Lemur at DAZ's March Madness sale?

I use the one shown here just about everywhere (except Outpost Gallifrey where, ironically, I use "Boris for Michael" morphed into a non-canon version of the Doctor from "Doctor Who"). It's lil' ol' me wearing a mask I sculpted, cast and air-brushed for some of my earlier sci-fi convention attendances. I no longer wear it as I've filled out just a tad and I fear I'd look more like Garfield than a cyberpunk felinoid mutant. Sincerely, Bill

I'm still not happy with my new Avatar - I'll probably go back to Ein. (cowboy bebop welsh pembroke corgi)

My avitars never represent me. Nothing ever fits. They mostly are the result of playing.

Casette: "Bad weather here in Spain. Raining" Since it's raining here in Israel too, we can both sing together: 'The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain..." By George he's GOT it!! Rain is a blessing, and should not be dispised. One can always picnic on another day. David

David I thank you. You always seem to speak so elequently :blushing: I like the green green grass of home for singing lmbo j.k. But here in Manitoba Canada it's warming up and I can feel the summer calling me!! I love the summer. David you say you go out on the yaught? Hmm nice I love the ocean there's no place I'd rather be, but alas I am miles from there. Right smack dab in the middle of the country. sigh Must say the avatars are getting pretty creative! ;) And I'm feeling a tad dense lol I was wondering what "intercouse them if they can't take a joke" meant and then.......oiechiwawa

I was trying to be polite yet accurately convey the essence of what I thought that might mean. Of course I'm also the guy who will, for the sake of politeness, not refer to someone as "pissed off" but instead describe them as "unrinated."

Always wondered if technology never advanced after the 8-track. Poser-6 on 8-track. How many cassettes? This is just a sample for my final Avatar: "WinXP Home Edition" :-)

Rain is a blessing, and should not be dispised. One can always picnic on another day. David "

How about snow? It's beginning to look like 1998 again where we had snow all the way through the end of May. And I'm in California! I'm getting so sick of it, this was almost my avatar ~ my sons snowman taken last week in our yard.

it was the snow here in Delawhere this morning that bothered me. Poor daffodils frost with white ... Blame the dystopia team for me having an avatar at all.

I just scraped up a Pakled I did a while back. I suppose I could go back to the source (a web site called 'you can't do that on Star Trek'..which is quite a giggle in spots), but I'm surfin' close to danger as it is..;)

I simply tried to make a render that reflected my user name (though it didn't come out as well as I had planned.) I have one I like much better that I use on a football team message board, but it is a bit inappropriate for here I think. For those that didn't watch cartoons in the 80's, Destro was an agent for Cobra on the cartoon GI Joe. I joined 'Rosity while sitting in a boring class a few years back, and it was the first name that popped into my head. I almost exclusively use AlioTheFool as a user name everywhere I join now, if not then GlycerineJester, or my real name. I do use destro75 on all of the 3D sites, simply in case someone needs to recognize the name for some odd reason.

This I dedicate to Foxseelady, who misses the sea. "Sea-Fever" I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking. I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying. I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over. By John Masefield (1878-1967). (English Poet Laureate, 1930-1967.) May you live to realize your dreams. David P. Hoadley

To Kendra; "Give me your snow, your rain, Your dew-drops yearning to be loved, The wretched waters of your flood-filled shore, Send these, the loveless, an unwanted gallons over to me, I'll use them to quench my parched arid wastes!" parapharsed by David P. Hoadley, Tel-Avid Bat-Yam, 2006

David, I must admit that I look at your picture and keep waiting for you to post... "If I were a rich man, Daidle deedle daidle Daidle daidle deedle daidle dum All day long I'd biddy-biddy-bum If I were a wealthy man. I wouldn't have to work hard, Daidle deedle daidle Daidle daidle deedle daidle dum If I were a biddy-biddy rich, Daidle deedle daidle daidle man." (as sung by Zero Mostel in that wonderful movie "Fiddler On The Roof.")

The version I saw was with Haim Topol. I've never seen Zero Mostel act. As for posting, it took me most of a day to do that picture, because each time I went to render it'd freeze my computer; thus forcing me to start from scratch. Finally I learned my lesson, and started saving after adding each element. An ordinary knucklehead would've known that from start, but I had to suffer through three failures to wise up. 'Experience is a hard teacher, but a fool will learn from none other!' Benjamin Franklin David P. Hoadley

Topol WAS in the filmed version, at least the one I saw (and I don't know of any other filmed adaptations). Mostel may have been in one of the stage productions. Sincerely, Bill

Yikes, Ya'll are right. I quoted the lyrics from a site that said Zero Mostel's lyrics. Either he did the stage version or the author of the site screwed up. Either way I picture the character in the movie, who seemed like a real decent kinda guy. Very lovable and genuine.

If I remember right, Zero Mostel did the Broadway version. Haim Topol did the Bollywood version. They both sang the song, but Topol is the Tevye that I remember. I was in tears as I watched him put his daughter on the train, never to see her again. Now my own children are leaving the nest, and traveling to distant shores. Just yesterday, or the day before, they were babies; I'd cuddle them in my arms, and bounce them on my knees. Where oh where did the years go by? David P. Hoadley

Now I have "Sunrise, Sunset" running through my brain...:crying: (That song always makes me tear up)

I like Avatars. They add some character to what would otherwise be just another boring looking forum. Most people pick an avatar associated with their gender, though not always. Some prefer ambiguous ones. If someone wants to use a picture of themselves, I have nothing against that. I'm too shy to post my picture in a public forum, not to mention I wouldn't want to run any of you off, LOL I'm female so tend to go with "girly" avatars. The one I selected to use is part of an image from my gallery. I have made others and will change them periodically just to add some variety. But I really like the one I'm using now so will probably stick with it for a long while.

Sorry if this bothers anyone with ebots I just want to see if this avatar works and this looked like the best thread to try it in. Pooh didn't work. Back to the drawing board

I like avatars primarily because it allows me to identify a poster even as I'm reading a post. Plus, isn't this an "Art" Community? Not having avatars to display more art seems rather silly. :tongue1:

Well, I finally made one. Still needs a bit of work. I just bought Carrara5Pro a couple of days ago so I had to figure out how to make the animation. Plus I had to model and texture everything. Then when I had finished modeling the hockey stick, I found one in the Carrara content. Figures ehh. Edit to brag, It came 10Kb under. Gives room to do more.

CALGARY FLAMES!!.. Gosh..my wife and I want the Goaly for Edmonton. Do not feel like spelling his name out...lol

Miikka Kiprusoff. Yeah, I imagine most teams would love to get thier hands on him. I would say MVP but we know that 99.9% of the time, someone back east will get it. Mind, Roly is a solid goalie. Edmonton could have done worse in that department.