The new Windows Live Messenger 9.0 finally added support for animated display pictures by supporting the use of GIF animations! Check out these examples:
Ever since Microsoft added "Display Pictures" to MSN Messenger back in 2003, users have been asking (or begging, in some cases) for the ability to use animated GIF images as their Display Pics. Some 5 years later, this wish has finally been granted - the new Messenger 9.0 allows animated display pics! Until now you could only download animated Flash avatars for Messenger through the few websites that are providing them (like Kiwee), but you couldn't use your own local GIF files as your avatar.
Messenger provides some default sample animated avatars, but they're not exactly very exciting. This is not a problem as you can select any picture that you please. Sherv.NET has always been a primary source of display Pictures and Avatars since the early days of Messenger, and you can now get all the free animated display pictures you need right here as well!
The features works very well with the GIF files animating smoothly in the IM window (you avatar does animate in the contact card as well). While this is a very noble feature, it could very easily become irritating to look at the annoying, seizure-inducing or nasty animations set by your contacts. Luckily, you can always hide their display picture from the chat window.
Also note that only users with Live Messenger 9.0 or newer will be able to see your animated pictures. MSN Messenger users can not see display pictures featuring an animation and will instead see a standard static picture. The avatar file size limit is around 200KB, and there doesn't seem to be a limit on the overall length of the animation. The maximum dimensions of a display image are still 96x96 pixels.
For more items see the February '08 news archive page.
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Tags: Animated, Display, Picture, Avatar, Animation, GIF, Messenger, 9.0
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y cant they put sme nice pics on the site.........MABY CAUSE THEY CANT GT THE IDEA!!!!!
this place is soo lame................
]Thattttts Wayyyyyyyyyyy :Lame..i want some nice pictures to put on my dp >.
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Ugh, my friend cant see it moving but I can...
thatmean that she doesn't have the new messenger
this is so kewl tnx:)
HEY, this site is awesome... I only have one bad thing to say... NOT ENOUGH 'FAMILY GUY' AND 'THE SIMPSONS' EMOTICONS!!!! LOL but no really, you should consider getting some more of those, they're really popular!
.............. >_> ERICA?!
lol. Jellybean's an idiot
I want the normal pictures from msn 9.0.
Like the green MSN figure in the suit.
apparently there's a frame limit when making your animated gifs... a 94.7kb, 20 frame 96x96 gif I've made doesn't run smoothly at all... so much so there's almost no point to using it. Disappointed.
It's an interesting feature, but it's almost ten years late in being implemented. What i want to know is, how do i move the user images back to the right side (as with all the previous versions and virtually every other IM app)?
i thought it worked on msn 8.0 too!
LOL NUB WHAT A RTARD ROFLCOPTER
I think the new feature is wonderful! however, does anyone know how the animated webcam display picture I have made can be saved onto the computer or accessed through a windows live messenger file in program files? please contact me
Very nice & useful for all occasions & different & makes messenger more & more enjoyable
Cool for I love the new gif icons feature, downloading live msn 9 is worth it just for the new animated DPs!
very cool type of funny gif icons to put in my messenger.
lol i have the same problem, why is it stuck on only one pic? IM SAD :(
please post something, i want the homer chokes bart one XD
Don't understand how to use them, when I add a .gif then I just see the 1st frame in my WLM 9 :S
thanks, I needed a new animated display picture for my WLM 9, love them so much
so nice i like it a lot, please give us more animated display pictures, bye.
thank you very nice we need more
I love the new gif icons feature
thank you it's very nice
Amazing, thanks for the tip!
oi bem voce muito feliz
I dont understand how to ise them, when i add an .gif i just see the 1st frame in my WLM9 :S
I love the new gif icons feature, downloading live msn 9 is worth it just for the new animated DPs!