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November 02, 2009 5:36pm

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  • #1 / Nov 02, 2009 5:36pm

    Derek Allard

    3168 posts

    Want to have your artistic side shown off in ExpressionEngine 2.0 for the world to see?

    With the release of EE 2.0, we’re looking to revamp the default avatars set, and we want your contributions. My ability to produce good art ended when I realized that the macaroni and glue wasn’t as tasty as it first appeared (4 years ago), and now I need your help.

    The idea of letting the community contribute avatars came from André Fredriksson (thanks!) at EECI2009. Over a beer, he suggested that it would be nice to let the community come up with better avatars - and he’s right! Rather then buying a stock pack, or pulling free icons from the web, we’ve decided to go to the people who really know what ExpressionEngine users want… the users! This gives us a wider variety of ideas and styles, and lets people have a piece of themselves permanently part of ExpressionEngine.

    Excited yet? Me too! If you are an artist and would like to produce an avatar for ExpressionEngine’s default set, we would love to see it! Continue Reading...

  • #2 / Nov 03, 2009 4:56am

    pushloop

    422 posts

    Personally, I would like to contribute with a request to keep the avatar of the man sticking his head up his ass 😉

  • #3 / Nov 06, 2009 4:54pm

    Derek Jones

    7561 posts

    Or if you don’t consider yourself an artist to make an avatar from scratch, there are plenty of great images in the public domain that could be used as the starting point, though of course care needs to be taken if they feature people or products that releases were obtained for free and commercial use.

  • #4 / Feb 10, 2010 5:50pm

    lebisol

    2234 posts

    Whatever happened to this idea?
    Also where exactly will this ‘default avatars set’ be used?Forums module in EE 2.0 or here on this site?
    Any contributions we can see so far 😊
    I know, so many questions over those little images…but they are fun.
    Thanks!

  • #5 / Feb 10, 2010 5:56pm

    Derek Jones

    7561 posts

    It got implemented, lebisol.  Bottom of the 2.0 Change Log:

    ExpressionEngine 2.0 features a new set of default avatars. We’d like to gratefully acknowledge the following users for their wonderful contributions:
    Cliff Persaud
    David Genesse
    Benedikte Vanderweeën
    Colin Williams
    Charles Neely

    Check in /images/avatars/default_set/ for the results!

  • #6 / Feb 10, 2010 6:01pm

    lebisol

    2234 posts

    D’oh!
    Serves me right for being late to the party. 😊
    Thanks Derek!

  • #7 / Feb 10, 2010 6:11pm

    Derek Jones

    7561 posts

    No problem.  Aaaaand for posterity.

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