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AZBMWRIDER
03-18-2008, 02:11 PM
http://www.advrider.com/forums/image.php?u=50914&dateline=1200235961


Very Cool BMW Avatar...! :eusa_clap:
DJ Down Under
03-19-2008, 09:47 AM
Yes..It's a beauty..:eusa_clap:

DJ
fganger
03-20-2008, 06:38 PM
What the . . .
Nail24
03-20-2008, 08:53 PM
http://www.advrider.com/forums/image.php?u=50914&dateline=1200235961


Very Cool BMW Avatar...! :eusa_clap:

Who do you get permission from to use this avatar?
AZBMWRIDER
03-20-2008, 11:10 PM
Who do you get permission from to use this avatar?


Me..!
Nail24
03-21-2008, 05:02 PM
Me..!

I wish I new how those things were made.
fganger
03-22-2008, 02:20 PM
"I wish I new how those things were made."

They are very much like a cartoon on TV. A number of shots, one after the other to give the impression of movement. The BMW one has four separate drawings.

I just took this one apart for you. I'll send via e-mail the shots - I saved them in gif. I'm afraid you will not be impressed. :icon_cry:

Stinkin" Frank

PS; I did send you a message to obtain your e-mail address. After looking at the different pictures, I found that only the Cylinders are different pictures - four of them.
Steve Carlton
03-23-2008, 02:36 PM
I wish I new how those things were made.
They're not hard, but they can be tedious. For a while, I was into it. The good software I had for it (Ulead) is now on a backup disk from when my hard drive was replaced. They're animated GIFs, a GIF being an image format more size efficient than JPEGs. The GIF format allows multiple images to be strung together, making for a cheap "movie." They're web friendly.

If you're capable of making images on photoshop or whatever image software program, you can save individual images and piece them together and adjust the timing in a GIF animating software. Microsoft GIF Animator is free. The fancier ones, like Ulead, will do re-sizing and a lot of other stuff in a friendlier format. The boxer image in that avatar looks like a re-sized version of a much larger animated GIF I've seen of the motor only.
DarthRider
06-07-2008, 10:23 AM
The disturbing (to some), but true genesis of the BMW horizontally-opposed twin (aka "Phlat-Tu") engine and, of course, the animated avatar.
:028:

http://www.oldengineshed.com/graphics/maytag72.gif
ROUNDEL
06-07-2008, 10:55 AM
mike im stealing it, thx its the least you could do...
DarthRider
06-07-2008, 12:25 PM
http://r1150r.smugmug.com/photos/44315759_pkWrP-O.jpg
Wild Will
06-07-2008, 07:06 PM
Dave, the Maytag never lost momentum from a bad antenna ring.
DarthRider
06-07-2008, 08:22 PM
Dave, the Maytag never lost momentum from a bad antenna ring.

And has the "bullet-proof for over 100 years" V-belt final drive...