Posted by: BlindFireSniper
This may not be the reason but its an issue, yours has way too many frames. I thought doing more then 50 frames was too much. On a slow internet connection even 90x90 animations would take a while to load 180 frames.
I thought yours would have definitely gotten a star, but that's the reason I can come up with. There is no way you could have spelt your gamertag and your Bungie.net Profile name wrong. They received yours, and its in the weekly update, that's a big deal.
Or it may have been the fact yours looks like sprites. I googled "Halo Sprites" and the first image that shows up has a hog that looks exactly like the hog you used.
SUGGESTION:
I think anyone that gets their avatar used in the forum should receive the Theme Master rank. That way even if the image didn't get a star there is some reward for ones Bungie can use.
As per the google images thing I used the "Halo CTF" flash game as a basis for my warthog. I did in fact draw it from scratch, because I was worried I wouldn't get the star because I stole someone elses images, and I've got a psd to prove it.
For the 180 frames issue, that's probably true, but I'm not sure if that was a factor in the voting. I wasnt going to cut out one of the landscapes I had spent drawing pixel per pixel, but if that's all the had to be done, that's even more upsetting. I once again appreciate another feature, but it still sucks to not have a star when I honestly think I deserved it.
I do think there are much better entries than the heart armor lock one, and I would like to know how these were selected. This seems like less of a contest and more of Urk giving stars to who he feels like, which discourages me from entering more cool stuff, even though I sort of like making it.
[Edited on 02.19.2011 8:49 AM PST]