The Secret Santa is an anonymous gift exchanging activity. Basically, you will be making a present for someone and receiving one from someone else. The catch is that you know who you are giving it to, but not who is giving it to you.

In our case, since we are a customizing forum, we will be dealing with what's meant to be unique to all of us - our avatar.

Only those who sign up in this thread will be able to take part in it. If you intend to do so, read this thread carefully.


First of all, here are some things you should be aware of:

＊ You can only receive one gift, no greedy heads.

＊ To sign up, you must reply to this thread with "Count me in" or something along those lines. Any message without a clear response will be ignored.

＊ When signing up, please put a couple of facts about yourself. What you like or dislike, hobbies, or whatever you think that would help the gift making.

＊ Please only sign up if you are 100% sure you will be able to make something for your partner. If you sign up and do not deliver anything by the due date, your avatar/status will be changed. You will then be forbidden to change that avatar until the new year. Be considerate and think about your partner. How would you feel if you didn't get a gift yourself?

＊ Anyone revealing their partner in any way (posting who your partner is, or telling your partner you are creating something for him/her, etc) will be disqualified and their avatar put in a draw at the end of event for those people whose partner FAILED!!

＊ The sign up starts today (06 Dec 2008) and runs for 7 days. Once that period is over no more participants will be accepted. Shortly after the sign up is over, you will receive a PM with the name of the person you have to create for. Then you will have until December 22nd to finish your gift. Once you are done with yours, please PM me the gift and your partner's name, so I can organize the whole thing before Christmas.


If you have any questions feel free to ask in this thread or PM me



Q&A

What is this gift?
The gift is basically the little picture under someone's name along the side of the forum, usually a 90x90 image.

I will be away for Christmas, Can I still participate?
Sure. You do not have to deliver the gift exactly ON December 22nd. You can send it in as soon as you are done - actually we recommend everyone to do this. So as long as you can deliver it on time, you are good to go.

How are you going to pick the partners?
First I will be assigning everyone a number according to the order you sign up. Then we will be running this through a random sequence generator.

Can I create an avatar for someone that is not my partner?
Sure, feel free to make extra gifts, but focus on your partner's first. All left over avatars will be given to those unfortunate to have their partner disqualified.

Can i choose who i create an avatar for?
No, that'd defeat the object of the gift giving.

Can I use MangaYourFace or some other online avatar generator?
No, no, no, no, no, and no!!! The point of this event is to get everyone unique again. So no using avatar generators or ripped icons. Anyone who does so will be disqualified.

signed up:

Misecia, Wil1113, albinoAZN, Mac Guru, .iKiller, Achill3s, Ricky, Lord Kokkei, jakesonaplane, Niclas, 48days, cj1224, Psych Out, odin13, Ellada, touchher, Psych Out, thek1w1, monroe0605, Alister, dyfolio, Merlish, jon, appdict, alexrogahn, salocin, mattrich, dustin, harveylord, Flamango, acronym16, kid karma, montazuma, aereo, blazedragon555, maniac08, deadland, JoMilla, wiseman, plizzo, ilyicecream,

Okee - I'm in.

So, fractals, astronomy, macs, minimalist design, monotones, web-development, photoshop, music (rock, jazz), piano.

"Count Me In"

I love Music, Movies, Art, and Vinyl Toys. My favorite vinyl atm is Adios.
My favorite book is Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy.
My favorite movie is Donnie Darko.
I Love my iPhone
My current favorite album is 808's & Heartbreak by Kanye West.

count me in...

I love Drum and Bugle Corps (Phantom Regiment member in 2000)
Old School movies like Flash Gordon, Blade Runner, Tron and Logan's Run
Macs (Obviously)
Obscure Trivia
Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
Minimalist Design

Count Me In

The Seahawks (NFL Team)
Metallica
macs and anything apple
I love very elegant but simple designs

sounds cool... sign me up!

I like everything XD but i like abstract avatarz
My family doesn't celebrate christmas much... actually at all.. and i probably wont be here during christmas so i'll probably send mine in early..

something about this sounds weird thou... what if misecia gave us all the same name??

sign me up...

I am the highest ranked poster on mt.
I have 0 photoshop skills

Achill3s wrote:something about this sounds weird thou... what if misecia gave us all the same name??

Not gonna be possible, using a random generator to do it and only once all the names have been added - everyone will get a unique code number.

I'm in.
Steve Jobs is my religion.

Definitely want in on this. I have limited design capabilities but I promise to come up with something good.

I like Pokémon, pixel-y stuff, and simplicity. Honestly anything random and fun will be great. Also, brownie points if you can get my Judaism into the avatar - Jew Cr3w anyone?

I'm up for it, I'm the most liked user on the forum and I'm back from my va' ca' so everyone will want my avatar..

Also, i'm only in if someone good gets to do mine...

I'm in on this.

I like the look of the underside of a cd, my name's Josh, I also love soccer and Rubik's cubes.

[EDIT] Oh and I'd like to have my avatar 3d with a reflection, but I don't know if that's getting too specific.

im in

i have the largest ... on the forum, wear $400 jeans, greek, snob, drink too much coffee, and am a self-proclaimed ...

oh also because mt is so uptight we should make this politically correct. change christmas in the announcement to "holiday season" and santa to "holiday gift bringer"

You were warned not an hour earlier to clean up your language. Chill out and come back when you can discuss things like a mature adult. -Staff

i was thinking maybe purveyor of the primary gifting period


So i guess as this i all my idea i should join in.

Anything gothic, retro, pixel based, jellybeans or mac related.

Hey, sure!


(I'm in, brah)

Folks, please read all the rules... a lot of people are missing this one:

When signing up, please put a couple of facts about yourself. What you like or dislike, hobbies, or whatever you think that would help the gift making.

I'm in. I'm okay at designing so I'll try my very best for the person I'm designing for but I don't know just how well I can do. I like Apple, Inc., The Beatles, cereal, my iPod touch. I would really like an icon that incorporates the "CJ" As you can see mine currently sucks.

P.S. I LOVE design that uses wood.

Sign me up. I've a complete Mac fanatic, I've used macs for almost all of my 17-year life span. That might be a good place to start. Something that incorporates my username would be cool.

count me in... i'm not an amazing designer or anything, just a hobby, but i'll do my best!

i like the cubs (baseball), apple, my iphone, snow, nature ya and my initials are CSS

Mac Guru wrote:Folks, please read all the rules... a lot of people are missing this one:

When signing up, please put a couple of facts about yourself. What you like or dislike, hobbies, or whatever you think that would help the gift making.

My bad, saw some of the other replies, thought it'd be weird of me to do so. Figured you guys knew better than I did. D:

So yeah, I love the Mets, baseball in general, The Giants are pretty cool (football), and uh.. gasmasks.. :B

Great idea! count me in

Some Facts: from New Zealand, so anything Kiwi, or related to NZ would work. Currently living in Sydney, Australia, and spent a lot of time in Singapore ... interests: Web Design, Hardcore, Metal, Nine Inch Nails, Rugby Union, All Blacks ...

count me in!
Things I like: I love "420", I'm a Gemini, britney spears, music, headphones, minimalist simple is good clean and marilyn monroe.

Count me in,

I like...
smaller avatars, pixel-y, funny ones, my saxophone, my ipod touch, macs of course, books and my xbox

Count me in…

Everyone calls me PJ; I’m from Australia; I like electronic music, particularly breakcore and electroclash; I play soccer & basketball; I play the drums; I read a lot; I speak English and am studying Japanese. I like obscure trivia. I can’t think of anything interesting to write here