I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I really have to speak my mind on this subject.

When I see a post and an Avatar (the liitle pic that identifies the user) I really see that as the user in my head.

This has lead to some really funny results.

USAMIKE, for example currently ahs the most adorable picture of a puppy as his Avatar.  In a recent thread he asked for some help and all I could see was that cute little animal with his pleading eyes.  As a result I wanted nothing more then to help USAMIKE get the answers to his questions solved!

BAGGINSBILL's Avatar is a great Avatar.  It's a godlike guy with an otherworldly texture that speaks of dignity and reason and (of course) a mastery of the material room.  After seeing the new Watchmen movie, I see BAGGINSBILL almost as the Poserworld's answer to Dr. Manhatten.  Not that he is out of touch, but that he can see into the minute truths of the texture room and use it to create things us mere mortals can only dream of.  His Avatar reflects that  character to a certain degree.

I remember when PJZ99 joined.  He had this beautiful render of a woman as an Avatar.  Well, oops, I thought he was a she!  I was all ready to flirt with PJZ99 because in my mind he was a gorgeous, no-nonsense gal with an excellent grasp of 3D.  Whew, I'm glad I found out different! lol.

Yay for DPHOADLEY for using his actual picture.  This has instantly ingratiated this man to me, making him a friend who I would never lie to.

My own Avatar is something I did in the face room years ago.  It is actually pretty good likeness.  What you see is what you get!  (Well, minus some facial hair that comes and goes.)

I'd be interested in other people's thoughts and first impressions, or why people have chosen the Avatars they use.

Cheers!

I chose my Avatar because I believe that people should be up front and straight forward about who they are, and because I like that particular photo, and I like being able to look at my grandson at odd times during the day.
DPH
PS: You mean that PJZ99 isn't a woman?  Damn!

I chose this avatar because it's a representation of who I'd like to meet here. :tongue2:

I picked my Avatar from one of the sites with a Christmas advent calendar. I'm too lazy to change it, besides, it's cute and Christmas isn't really all that far away anymore :P

I don't use my real pic because then I'd have to kill those that see it. Hehehehehe

Quote - I picked my Avatar from one of the sites with a Christmas advent calendar. I'm too lazy to change it, besides, it's cute and Christmas isn't really all that far away anymore :P

Maybe, maybe not, but a woman could get pregnant and be delivered in the meantime.
DPH

Mine as you can see is just a photo taken by a friend. :P

Mine was one of my first try's at Photoshop, don't have the full pic anymmore...it's an eyeball looking in through a keyhole at an abandoned hospital room (not that you can tell).

I guess in retrospect it looks a little perverted...lol!

I don't have a grasp enough of the face room, or face morphs, to make something that looked like me (well, I tried once, and it got about 30 views...;)

I have glasses, and more hair than the avatar, and slighly skinnier...and dood, yepm, I'm a dude...;)

 Hm. I've changed my avatar a few times. At the moment I'm using the Snape Is Not Dead minifesto, originally an icon made for LiveJournal but I kinda like it.

That said.. perhaps it's time to actually change my avatar? Hm? I've used pictures of myself on several occasions, I'm not afraid to show my face LOL

I'm the same as DPH's reason

 There! I've changed into me, too now ^_^

I figure if y'all want to see me, you'll either visit the team page, the Poser Community page, or my gallery (ok, so it's just a pic of my back, but still).  ;)  I like to have funny avatars.  This one is created by Meaghan Murphy of Kawaiinot.com, who does some really funny comics that are short enough to avatarise ;)

Oh well, can't win 'em all.  ... (sigh) :sad:

Well, I was going to post my face here ...  :scared: ___ Oh NOOOOOoooooooo...........
... but ...
... you can see my whole body and  my face   ... if you peek in on my current class.

Where the current class, you say? :blink:  ... Well, you can peek in if you  CLICK  HERE.
BTW - I'm on Page 2. :biggrin:

cheers,
dr geep <----------------------- needs to advertise using the avatar :lol:
;=]

Well, I am NOT four cute Japanese girls in powered armors.

It's just that they look much, much better than me!

Giorgio

I even use this same avatar at other forums, and I've never really felt like changing it. When I made it, I just fuzzed out the background of a photo of me. It still looks like me (about five years after the pic was taken), except I've gained a little weight and gotten a little grayer.

I didn't pick it for any particular reason or to make any kind of statement, I just like having my face next to my words.

I recently followed the trend toward realistic pictures.  This icon is a modified version
of the P5 Gramps figure, and it's seriously a good likeness, only slightly toonish. 
(Well, except for the arms and legs.)

My avatar makes me look fat.

Every forum should have a hero.  Why not the Big Blue Boy Scout?

I wark because I use this avatar.
I use this avatar because I wark.

Which came first? I wonder...

Hey, I'm really glad to see that TrekkieGrrrl is a girl! lol.  No, seriously, for a while there I was afraid it might just be a guy looking for a girl into Star Trek! lol.

I love the variety of people's Avatar's.  I like funny one's too, like JenX mentioned. 

Who is it that has that broken jpg that a kitten comes and wipes off?  I love that one!  I'm also always amused by Miss Nancy's great animated Avatars.

Not too long ago, I posted in the Suggestion Box forum that it would be cool to be able to have a small number of different avatars available... my idea was you could have one for each mood you wanted to use in a post. You could make it easier to be clear about when you were trying to be amusing, and when you were serious, for example.

I can only imagine what people who animate and change their avatars a lot would do with that kind of power.
 

<------my baby.

Hey, I really am a smirking bald guy with glasses. Except for the baldness. Nothing at all to do with being too lazy to choose some hair, no sir. Actually, I didn't wear glasses when I started this lark either, but reality seems to have overtaken fiction there. 8)

I do find the pin-up avatars confusing, I must say. I don't expect people's avatars to be like them at all, and I have no problem with kitties or robot avatars; but the gender message is more deep-seated than that, it seems.

Quote - PS: You mean that PJZ99 isn't a woman?  Damn!

Through no fault of my own, I promise you. 

Quote - > Quote - PS: You mean that PJZ99 isn't a woman?  Damn!

Through no fault of my own, I promise you. 

Well, there goes the blind date that I was going to ask you out on.  Sorry!
DPH

I wouldn't have said yes, I find the baby growing out of the top of your head a bit disconcerting anyway.

My pic is me too.  Easier to pick that one than pick something artsy that would "define" me.  I should choose something more cryptic sometime...

Pjz is a girl!  He just doesn't look like one :p

Avatar? ... Uhh ... what is that?!?

Mine..... its animated and my sis made it for me in Psp, also its sorta my name.....Julie Ann :)

Quote - Avatar? ... Uhh ... what is that?!?

weren't they the bad guys in black in the 'Charmed' series?

This pic is the only figure I ever rigged.  It also shows something I lost and will have to work the rest of life to recover.  I hope it takes significantly shorter than that.  I had the first of two strokes, just after making Gir.  That was two years ago and I had another stroke since then, that affected worse.  I have since lost my job, my 401k, my apartment, and my girlfriend of the time.

I have since been homeless, beaten and robbed. I applied for disability and rejected three times.

However--I'm living in public housing now, and back on-line.  I've become a brokered merchant at Vanishing Point, and my renders STILL kick ass!  Losing something doesn't mean hiding in a cave and weeping.  Screw THAT. There will be time for that in the grave!

I'm too mean to lay down and die. I'm still weak, poor as a church-mouse, and need food-stamps, but I will climb back up the stairs to the sky and shake the pillars of heaven before I die.

Sometimes sometimes little things mean nothing.  Sometimes the universe can be bound into the shell of a walnut.

Since this has pretty well evolved into a semi-permanent style, I thought it might be fun to do a self-portrait, toon-style. Extracted out of the toon-ness, it's a pretty reasonable likeness.

Well mine is just the very first closeup render I ever did with poser, it was just a test render but I like how it turned out, so there it is.

It reminds me of that feeling when you finally figure something out. =D

Mine is a butt.  Just in case nobody had figured that out.  I know these little pictures can be so very cryptic.

Nice butt.

I used myself cuz I was having a good hair day. A rare thing :-)

-Sarah

Mine was made for COLOURlove site but I liked it how it turned out and use it here too! :biggrin:
I love colors what else!

I created this one because once upon a time I was that young, had red hair and was cute. But I never did have the blue (or green) eyes. My eyes are brown and have always been so. Lol. And I wouldn't mind looking this good now...sigh.

IMVHO it's interesting to read all of the above. whilst i don't look like the thing to the left of this msg,  I try to change it every week in honour of current events, and I hope I get some free time, as I heard the news today - oh boy! - that jacko soon would be in london-town.  now they know how many nerds it takes to fill the O2 Arena

And psychologists say . . .

www.goodwebpractices.com/website-design/internet-avatars-analysed.html 

This thread is fun! I love hearing everyone's reasons for their avatars. Mine is my Poser version of Edward and Bella from Twilight. The full version along with a few other pics from the book are in my gallery if any are interested.

Quote - This thread is fun! I love hearing everyone's reasons for their avatars. Mine is my Poser version of Edward and Bella from Twilight. The full version along with a few other pics from the book are in my gallery if any are interested.

Cool! I love that book.

I'm always changing mine. Being a trekkie fan, I'm currently using an adapted UFP logo! :)

I had to think a bit to remember which Avatar I was using. I don't use one of me cause I don't like the look of me. Maybe if I got the hang of the face room I could give me a face lift. Besides I like to change my avatar too often. Which is bad of me. I have a tend to remember people by their avatars and to look at those rather than the name.

Quote - Mine is a butt.  Just in case nobody had figured that out.  I know these little pictures can be so very cryptic.

Agreed...you are a butt. :lol:

Ta dump dump.

Quote - Ta dump dump.

take it off!  Take it all off!!!
DPH

Gosh dave, you sure run hot and cold.

The general feeling is:  Your avatar makes people hot, because she must have a cold ass. :laugh:

That's my take on it. :lol:

If I used artwork I'd change it too often so what you get is just me.  :)    ('course I don't have as nice an ass as pjz99 but I have Photoshop.  I could fake it.  :) )