I animated a perfectly good avatar, and dA threw a hissy fit because it was 35kb instead of 15kb. So I fiddled around with everything, generally made it a lot shittier, less well animated and thoroughly unpleasing to the eye. Surprisingly, dA liked it, but I don't. All it does is blink, why is it so large? More to the point, why is the avatar filesize limit so small?
So my question to you all is; how do you all get such good quality avatars and yet keep them under 15kb?