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Post by Stormrider on Aug 25, 2011 7:17:19 GMT -6
I finished The Hobbit Movie banner. Has anyone noticed it? It animates from the picture with the actors and their normal faces into one with their movie faces.
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Post by Andorinha on Aug 25, 2011 10:42:40 GMT -6
LOL! I did notice it, just a day or so ago, but wondered if it had been like this for a long time, and I was just too unobservant to have noticed. So I watched it cycle a few times, thinking, "this is kool!" Also thought maybe it had always cycled, and for some strange reason my Old Mac was just picking up on it now...
So, a belated thanks, Stormrider -- IT IS KOOL!
Sorry to hear of your tummy troubles, hope everything gets cured up quickly!
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Post by fanuidhol on Aug 25, 2011 12:17:03 GMT -6
Cool Banner, Stormy! I haven't been keeping up on the makeup so, it is nice to see. Hope your tummy continues to improve. Fan
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Post by Stormrider on Aug 25, 2011 13:29:13 GMT -6
It was put up last Friday, I think. It was before my tummy started hurting on Saturday. The original did not cycle--it was just the one picture with the actors' real faces. I just added their dwarf makeup for the second image and then cycled it.
I thought it would be a kewl idea to show what they looked like for real and in costume. Some of them still look a bit like themselves but some of them are really different and I really had to look at them very closely. Some of them are really disguised so much that I wasn't always sure.
I took the list of actors/characters from TORN's site to see which actor played which Dwarf. Then I took the pictures of them in dwarf attire from TORN and matched them to their actor. I am hoping I have the correct actor in the correct dwarf makeup. Depending on how the pictures where named at TORN, I wasn't sure that they were posed in the same order as the description named them. So I did all the ones that I could tell where the right actor and then deduced which remaining picture was which actor from the TORN Actor/Character listing.
I still think Fili and Kili should have looked more rugged (stony, hard, or something). They look too elvish!
Thanks for wishing me well.
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Post by Andorinha on Aug 26, 2011 8:48:34 GMT -6
RE Stormrider's: "I took the list of actors/characters from TORN's site to see which actor played which Dwarf. Then I took the pictures of them in dwarf attire from TORN and matched them to their actor."
Wow, very impressed with your skills, Stormrider!
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Post by Stormrider on Aug 27, 2011 7:21:23 GMT -6
RE Stormrider's: "I took the list of actors/characters from TORN's site to see which actor played which Dwarf. Then I took the pictures of them in dwarf attire from TORN and matched them to their actor." Wow, very impressed with your skills, Stormrider! Thank you! I have good problem solving skills or so they say at work.
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Post by Androga Erindalant on Aug 28, 2011 3:48:21 GMT -6
Nice new banner indeed, Storm! Great work! It was the first thing I did today, when I passed by here; checking out that banner and the matching actor/charactor faces.
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Post by Andorinha on Dec 16, 2012 17:05:47 GMT -6
Not exactly about the Banner, but, Stormrider, did you change the site's intro "skin" for The Hobbit? I LIKE it!
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Post by Stormrider on Dec 16, 2012 20:36:06 GMT -6
No, I didn't change anything lately. What is it you see?
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Post by Andorinha on Dec 18, 2012 8:05:24 GMT -6
Hmm, when I bring up the site, before logging in, the pages are all green as grass and the symbols, rather than being rings are changed to pipes! Thought it was a particularly "Hobbitish" skin, so maybe set up for the movie premier.
Once I log in, the screen goes back to its usual golden-tan leather back ground with rings rather than pipes.
[glow=red,2,300]Twilight Zone time?[/glow]
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Post by Stormrider on Dec 18, 2012 17:09:02 GMT -6
Hmm, when I bring up the site, before logging in, the pages are all green as grass and the symbols, rather than being rings are changed to pipes! Thought it was a particularly "Hobbitish" skin, so maybe set up for the movie premier. Once I log in, the screen goes back to its usual golden-tan leather back ground with rings rather than pipes. [glow=red,2,300]Twilight Zone time?[/glow] Hmmm . . I think it might be one of the Skins that you can select on your profile. I believe it could be the Shire/Hobbit skin. You are talking about pipe weed pipes, not plumbing pipes, correct? The skins were designed a few years ago by a few of us and I believe Desi designed the Shire/Hobbit skin. Go look in your profile and see if you can find the section to choose skins. The golden leather skin is the default/main skin that was originally created when we came over to proboards. But the fact that you can get a glimpse of the pipes is definately [glow=red,2,300]Twilight Zone time?[/glow]!
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Post by Stormrider on Dec 18, 2012 17:15:46 GMT -6
Click the PROFILE button at the top of the forum under the Tolkien's Ring main banner. Once into your profile, at the top, click on the link to Modify Profile. Then in the Account Preferences section (4th section down the page, I believe), there is a Skin Selection drop down. Select your skin! Try them all to see what you like or use the skin that fits your mood.
Right now, I am using the Lothlorien skin although I usually use Rohan. The Shire is the one with the pipeweed pipes. Gondor is white/grey/blue and Mordor, which is dark red, is very hard on your eyes!
Let's see, we have: The original Gold Leather look Rohan--green Shire--green Gondor--white/grey/blue Lothlorien--light green (actually very pretty and designed by Magpie) Mordor--dark blood red (ouch) I think that was all we had the time and energy to create!
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Post by Stormrider on Dec 18, 2012 17:30:15 GMT -6
Heck, I just tried them all just for fun and decided to keep The Shire Skin in honor of The Hobbit Movie! With the Shire Skin, the pipe changes to a pint of ale for new posts! ;D
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Post by Andorinha on Dec 19, 2012 20:36:51 GMT -6
OK, I just changed the skin to "hobbit," now it shows grass green when I'm signed in, but NO pipes! Weird. I'll sign out and see if the (pipe-weed} pipes show up again...
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Post by Andorinha on Dec 19, 2012 20:39:28 GMT -6
OK, the pipes show up, but no ale tankard Going to cycle thru the others now!
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