Why are SRK avatars so terrible?

fixed it lol

Hey nas you think you can do what I wanted done to the av? I want a guy walking away with his back facing us giving the finger over his shoulder. Thats hit would be kinda hot.

then i was wrong in that

Could you please then edit your post at dustloop.com to correct your mistake?

http://dustloop.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10803&postcount=3. Oh yeah a new post indicating your mistake would be much appreciated as well.

Thanks.

OC

I’ll give it a try, but im not that good with animation… and im not sure what you want lol, send me a pm to clarify the specs:tup:

i feel special he liked my av…
props to sunoc0

I don’t get how you are baffled by all of the flashing effects, sprites, and super meters. SRK is mainly about Capcom fighting games. And all Capcom fighting games have those things featured in 'em.
It’s pretty difficult to voice your opinion on this matter without sounding a little elitist.

Can anyone tell me the history of those trends? especially the team light kick one… how did that come about and what does it mean?

Ah, SunocO…so young. so innocent.

Team Light Kick was a major trend that was around after Empire avs, before SRK City, and lasted til shortly before iPod avs.

Master Chibi started it up, and it was basically, you picked 1 still sprite, and chibi resized it to double (unless it was a guily gear sprite) and put it in black and white, w/ 1 feature of it red, on a red and white splotchy bg, with the words “Team Light Kick,” the mvc style LK icon, and your name.

the thing is, he gave 'em away to anybody…for free…which was unheard of, so everone had one. It was the cool thing to do.

Later, Chibi redesigned the TLK avatars so the were much cleaner/better looking.

Shortly after that, a bunch of spoofs popped up, like Team Strong Punch, Team Medium Kick, Team Light Chick, and my own personal one, Team Quiche Kick.

Shortly after that, iPod avs came along and everyone forgot about Chibi.

…seriously.

ahhh i’ve seen them before but didn’t understand the meaning…i still don’t understand why it’s team light kick? bleh yes i’m still young and innocent and i’ve been here since 2001! it’s pathetic really :sad:

edit - btw i want to say the best av i’ve seen here is chibi’s kill bill bleach av. yo if u not gonna use it hook it up or make me one like that! that was so sick and i think u only had it on for like 2 days.

by the way, lol

you shouldnt be able to make a thread like this if all your avs are garbage, aka Zandwich. I’d much MUCH rather look at generic team avs that have been ps’ ed to hell and back over the garbage you sport. And what forums do you visit? I visit tons, and almost all of them have boring as hell avs, like just a pic and thats it. SRK has more visually impressive(I dont care how much fucking skill it takes or w/e bs your blabbing about, its all about the end result and how it looks) avs than pretty much any other forum I’ve been to(everything from Videogame to Audio to AV to Cars to Anime to w/e) I cant even believe someone like YOU is posting this thread, you’re avs are some of the worst on the site, I hate when you post anywhere because I know Im going to have to look at some dumb totally spies shit that looks bland as hell at BEST. Damn Im ranting, oh well…

It’s a stupid story really.

I have this stupid victory pose I do where if I win in CvS2 (or whatever game it is) before it says KO I jump up / in an arc and do a j.LK. I just thought some characters had some absolutely retarded j.LKs as part of their air normals, hence my ending the match with them. Stupidity, whatever~

Anyways, so my friend at CF / PA notices this, and we fuck around, and I’m like yeah I’m going to go on SRK and do team light kick to see who wants to join, just for the hell of it.

So I throw some shit together in 15 minutes, ask the MBR/miRC crew if they want in, and then I go on IMM and post a thread telling people it’s just for fun, not an actual team (like Empire / Dynasty / whatever).

A week later I’ve done like 50 avatars. People were really fiending for them, and I honestly I was shocked. Either they just liked how the avatars looked and wanted one, or they really did want to be part of the fun. A week after that I did another 50 avatars. I kept getting requests, people wanted shirt designs (I got a handful of PM’s on the matter, folks came up to me at local tournaments in regards to it), fuck if I REALLY went with it I might have even made some money.

Eventually it got to be too much to handle. I got a job, my time dwindled down, and I let it die. Half a year later though I brought it back, redesigned the look, and it was still pretty popular. As Quiche mentioned, this time there were mock TLK avatars flying around, but hell it was for fun.

The second thread is still there if you want to look at it. I stopped taking requests because my copy of PS was on the fritz, but it’s working now. Unfortunately I don’t have the time for it, but it’ll be back for a third time, you can count on it.

http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96375

;D

[quote=Zandwich]
I know, everything I make sucks
In reality, I think the trend of swishes and sparkles is finally finishing its run. I’ve noticed a huge decline in the amount of them since I first came here and everybody had a stupid fucking doolie avatar or a picture of magneto with a shitload of sparkles that said RTSD MAGNUS on it.

The whole dooly avatar is not really a trend imo. The amount of people soo intended to wear it in proportion to the people who actually jacked it/made parodies of it was very small and selective. The av itself is a classic and consists of no flashiness or other above mentioned objects. It was just the victim of retards who got ahold of it and there in lies the real trend of people messing with its symbolism.

peace

hahah cool story chibi. when i first read the first line i thought u did a jumping light kick in real life haha i was picturing how ridiculous u would look doing that shit hahah

btw u should do that after u win a match hahah…u can thank me later when that catches on

I have done that actually, though I’m not sure what would really constitue as a j.LK in real life.

It looks totally bad though. I’ll take a picture next time.

:rofl:

omg TLK v.3 gogogo

Or is it v.4? Make up your mind, Chibs >=O

ps- make mine first:tup: I <3 yuo

I like my avatar. Had it for about five years now and even though I might change it every now and then it always gets reverted back to what everybody sees now.

Psychosquall is the shit.

Thanks bro.

LOL, how did mine get up there? Why you gotta hate on my Dec 2000 AV style?

Which avatar were you linking too? Was it an angel one?