You can also use GIMP to make the .gif file.
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Simple best!
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Just for practice i did it as an “apng”. Looks much cleaner.
That’s a interesting idea. Although I think it would maybe look a little better if you made it clock wipe out and then back in, so it would be a perfect loop.
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Here you go!
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I’m new to blender and i had a lot of fun messing with your blend file. My only criticism is that the wink isn’t very noticeable(probably just because of the small res unfortunately), and i think he is winking with the wrong eye, i never really thought about it until seeing this but i think people move their winking eye towards the person they’re winking at. Thanks for posting the blend file regardless!
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Yea, that looks great! Much better!
Gave it another try.
I definitely like this one better.
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Are you from blender ua forum by any chance? 
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Is this still happening, or is the plan just for the symbol to stay the same?
Ah yes I forgot about it, sorry! I’m picking the one by @BlenderTimer . With the recent performance changes you won’t see it play long, but it’ll be a nice change 
@Kena I also like your version, but the background colors don’t look quite right.
Everyone else: feel free to submit new ideas too!
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This one was nice
why the change ? 
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It was! But the original idea was to give other artists a chance to design a ‘spinner’ too and I forgot to follow through with that. This one may re-appear some day
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Thought I would throw in my idea.
Here is my spinner:
I thought of many possibilities, like having many nodes being connected in a large node tree, but the mix node bar gives a good impression of loading, and progress being made.
What do you think?
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@bartv, I have an idea.
Could you have a different spinner for each topic category? This would give a lot of people the chance to have their spinner on blenderartists.org .
For instance:
When I go to a topic in #artwork:traditional, it shows a spinner of the BA logo being painted. But when I go to #support:modeling, it shows a spinner of the BA logo being extruded.
It looks good! Could you make a version on a white background too?
I don’t think we should do that; it would make the experience of the site more ‘messy’ (people might not get why the animation is different for every topic) + it would be a LOT more work for me to maintain.
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