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Raneth · #31 Post by **Raneth** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:11 pm

Evil Ryu. He's a BAMF.

Cenyu · #32 Post by **Cenyu** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:01 pm

+ Photoshop.

DeMysteriis · #33 Post by **DeMysteriis** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:55 pm

lathian wrote:This particular one is of Rei Ayanami from Evangelion. I like the series, and can relate to this character more than the others.

This terrifies me for a long list of reasons that should be apparent to anyone who has watched Evangelion.

Musashi · #34 Post by **Musashi** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 8:46 pm

This is one series I've been postponing, unfortunately, it's creeping up the to watch list.

Raukov · #35 Post by **Raukov** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:02 pm

"creep" being the operative word with your avatars

Musashi · #36 Post by **Musashi** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:12 pm

I have yet to use a decaying corpse as one.

Morskittar · #37 Post by **Morskittar** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:16 pm

Mine's from The Loathsome Ratmen and All Their Vile Kin, a Skaven fluff book. It's written by someone in the Empire who becomes aware of the Skaven and is desperate to overturn the conspiracy. The book has some fantastic artwork, and this is one of my favourite pictures from it; a Grey Seer being carried aloft on a palaquin. It's a beautiful picture and really sums up the viciousness and menace of the Grey Seers and the Skaven race perfectly. So who could resist not having it as an avatar?

lathian · #38 Post by **lathian** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:44 pm

DeMysteriis wrote:
lathian wrote:This particular one is of Rei Ayanami from Evangelion. I like the series, and can relate to this character more than the others.
This terrifies me for a long list of reasons that should be apparent to anyone who has watched Evangelion.

Hey, it's not that bad. And at least I don't relate to Gendou. That would just be... Bad.

DeMysteriis · #39 Post by **DeMysteriis** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:55 pm

lathian wrote:
DeMysteriis wrote:
lathian wrote:This particular one is of Rei Ayanami from Evangelion. I like the series, and can relate to this character more than the others.
This terrifies me for a long list of reasons that should be apparent to anyone who has watched Evangelion.
Hey, it's not that bad. And at least I don't relate to Gendou. That would just be... Bad.

That would be Worse. Rei is Bad.

John Uskglass · #40 Post by **John Uskglass** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:13 am

The Knight of High House Dark.

Anomander Rake from Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen

He's pretty BA as well.

Enginseer · #41 Post by **Enginseer** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:02 am

DeMysteriis wrote:
lathian wrote:
DeMysteriis wrote: This terrifies me for a long list of reasons that should be apparent to anyone who has watched Evangelion.
Hey, it's not that bad. And at least I don't relate to Gendou. That would just be... Bad.
That would be Worse. Rei is Bad.

I agree. But at least he's not as whiny as Shinji.

@DeMysteriis - I'd say yours is more of a Nu?

Website · #42 Post by **Giladis** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:08 am

I began with this as it was my first ever net avatar

Then during the HotW I went IC

Following that I was feeling dandy

And now I am IC again

#43 Post by **Burning Sun** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:32 am

Spartan wrote:Thanks Sun !!

No probs. It didn't take all that long, there's actually only just over 2200 avatars in the collection.

I asked Ric nicely if he could upload them (they're only 10MB) to his domain, as I don't want to try uploading 2200 files to photobucket.

So I present this mess of avatars. Now, if I've got my information correct, this is a mix of the stuff I downloaded from Asur.org.uk after we stopped using it, some older Ulthuan/Asur stuff, and some older avatars that might be from another site.

Have fun: http://www.ulthuan.net/avatars/

Spartan · #44 Post by **Spartan** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:03 pm

*browses*

Oh man, so many memories in all those old avvies...almost brings a tear to my eye

.

Though I have to say, seeing Inya's avvy again was a bit...scary

.

assimilation · #45 Post by **assimilation** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:00 pm

Wow, some really old 'faces' there. Wonder how many people could name?

Raukov · #46 Post by **Raukov** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:04 pm

Inya...

lathian · #47 Post by **lathian** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:45 pm

Wow, I'm almost at the bottom of that thing.

Couldn't find my older ones though, which is a shame. Can't remember what I used to use.

Ferretsnarf · #48 Post by **Ferretsnarf** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:50 pm

at first my avatar was a generic high elf with sword picture, then Pecten and Uther began demanding I make it a picture of a ferret, which I did. A few months later (2 years and a few months ago) my dog died and my avatar has been a picture of her ever since.

#49 Post by **Burning Sun** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:27 am

assimilation wrote:Wow, some really old 'faces' there. Wonder how many people could name?

I'll offer a title to anyone who can identify more than 25% correctly

The accuracy will have to be determined by someone who has a better idea if the answers than me.

Pecten Kalderon · Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:43 am

Congratulations Burning Sun, nice thread!

I'll offer a title to anyone who can identify more than 25% correctly

I even stand a chance, my memory is (amongst other things) very visual. Elias and I as a team would stand even more chance. But ehm...the link gives an error. So, what to do about that? Should we do something or you?

I'll give you the history of my avatars soon enough, it's some effort so scramble them all together again

Squeak · #51 Post by **Squeak** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:03 am

I think I found this one when I googled rabbit stencil. It's one of about ten that I cycle through. My favourite one is still:

I think I found it on Wooster Collective. I like how the robot interacts with the environment. This is probably the oldest one I have:

Which is the talking head from Myth the Fallen Lords. I used to have a gif version where it talked, but I lost it many, many years ago.

assimilation · #52 Post by **assimilation** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:40 am

Hmm, the link was working yesterday, but today it is giving me a blank page.

Tylarion · #53 Post by **Tylarion** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:57 am

assimilation wrote:Hmm, the link was working yesterday, but today it is giving me a blank page.

Same for me.

I don't think I could name 25% of them, though I might get 10%. I am going to try when the page is back up

assimilation · #54 Post by **assimilation** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:31 pm

I recognise lots, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to put a name to them.

#55 Post by **Burning Sun** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:17 pm

OK, that's one way to crash the software.

Lets try this again, using subfolders and a faster server, ours.

http://www.ulthuan.net/avatars/

(I've edited the above link too)

EDIT - Finished uploading now, try the new link

langbaobao · #56 Post by **langbaobao** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:36 pm

IIRC, the first avatar I had on this forum was the coat of arms of my home town, Rijeka.

But that one didn't last long. It was soon substituted by the one I currently have, which I made from the following pic:

This one comes from a manga called Berserk, which I first started to read some 8-9 years ago and still like a lot.

EricJ · #57 Post by **EricJ** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:13 pm

Burning Sun wrote:OK, that's one way to crash the software. Lets try this again, using subfolders and a faster server, ours.

Yeah, slashdotting ourselves sounds like a better idea than slashdotting someone else. :)

#58 Post by **Burning Sun** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:05 pm

EricJ wrote:Yeah, slashdotting ourselves sounds like a better idea than slashdotting someone else.

Quoted because it made me smile

Ric is lovely, and will do favours like this, but I'd rather we not crash his gallery for him. He was kind enough to throw me the software though, which is what I've uploaded here.

Pecten Kalderon · #59 Post by **Pecten Kalderon** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:21 pm

Woow, that link really contains too-many-avatars-loading-too-slow. I'm not going to try to identify them. I'm still enjoying the thread though.

The history of my avatars then.

It started all with this picture in 2004. It's from a photoshoot a friend of us did.

I believe it was Joran who was nice enough to ask whether I was a guy or a girl

(thought it to be quite obvious, but ok, Joran is Joran). In those times people were speculating about me being Elias' alterego instead of his girlfriend.

Then I had this one for a long time including the War of the Beard campaign.

Which belongs to this photo, which was made for a store selling gothic clothing.

This one only evoked positive reactions and no questioning my gender.

Then I had...I believe this one:

Which belongs to this drawing I made years ago. The rest of the picture I wasn't satisfied about

, but I'll post it for the completeness:

Gehehehe don't ask.

Then I had this one, one of my drawings, which obviously is a Fellonian high on caterpillars. At least, obvious for the ones who joined Elias' roleplay game Age of the Beast (he is really working on the final fluff, you know)

The full picture again:

For the Hour of the Wolf campaign I played Nehekara and downloaded a hippo skull:

Ow, then I skipped to one I can't find now, something me sitting on a stone, looking away. I also had the one with the umbrella again.
After the campaign I returned to my Fellonian avatar.

Last but not least I now a female who belongs to the Hordes of Anar and is a adorer of the Slaanesh. So, a new avatar.

I'm sitting on the floor, watching and enjoying a performance by the medieval band Estampie at the Wave Gotik Treffen 2002. It's a rare picture of me with a genuine smile, since I didn't know the picture was being taken (As soon as I see a lense I smile not-really or like an idiot). The angle and outfit make it Slaanesh-fit

So, well. That was my contribution.

EricJ · #60 Post by **EricJ** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:57 am

You need to smile more often, Pecten.