Emoticons Work-in-Progress Thread

[Mars]

can I request that we keep this icon " :twisted: " for Catholicmat. His posts are not the same with out that icon... or I wonder if their is a cougar icon that can be created by sammich... I don't know if it is the red eyes or what but we just need a really evil cougar for Cmat (ok for me too and anyone else who wants to use it) if we are going to get rid of this one " :twisted: " Maybe a Cougar with an evil smile with drool or blood dripping out of its mouth...

Haha, I know we greatly underestimate the time and energy/effort that Sammich puts into these things, but a bloody-mouth blue-horned evil-eyed Cougar devil icon sounds really funny to me too!

Another is a Cougar with red feathers sticking out of his mouth. I saw this on a t-shirt, symbolic of BYU (and Cosmo) beating (and eating) the U (and Swoop), and it made me laugh!

[Sammich]

Some more progress, making all the others more readable now:

I'm definitely planning on a devil cougar. And I like the idea of the red feathers in the mouth too (whether part of the devil cougar or not remains to be seen)

[Mars]

[Sammich]

Here's the latest versions, this time I saved them as .gif files so the admin could test them out and see if they actually work with the board. I'd really like critical feedback on these (be unkind if necessary), so please let me know what you like and don't like. I included my own comments of things I'm still planning to do so your comments won't be redundant with what I'm already going to do.
Mouth isn't readable enough



Facial expression isn't reading enough and the eyes look like they're looking different directions

This one's working alright but I need to clean up the edges

The face is still a bit unreadable and he looks a little too intelligent.

Not sad enough? Maybe I'll lay the ears flatter and make the frown more obvious

Hearts still aren't reading, maybe I'll replace the eyes with hearts like the icon from CB

Doesn't look freaked out enough. Still working on this expression

Grin isn't cheesy enough yet, but I don't know what to do yet. Still trying some different things

Can't read the horns, and I might mess with the mouth/nose a little still



Looks more sad than embarrassed

Frown not prominent enough?

Icons I haven't redone with the new proportions yet:


Icons I'm still planning to do:
Wink
Crazy
Sticking out tongue
Rolling Eyes
Whoops? (these question marks are maybes)
Laughing?
Red feathers in mouth?

If you have any suggestions for icons post them now so I can put them in my to-do list.

[Sammich]

Hmmm, do they look a little too big? I can try shrinking them down a little more but we're going to start losing detail.

[hawkwing]

a little bit more on the mouth would be good

I like this guy!

This guy works for me, maybe a little more refinement

Like you said, the edge is a little messy, but other than that he's looking really sick

The utardier the better!

almost looks surprised, rather than sad. Could a tear be placed in there?

I wonder if a bit of a grin would help bring this together?

I agree with you, but I don't know that I have any constructive criticism to help, keep trying, he's good, but maybe not quite there yet, open mouth?

It would be cool if he had two little fangs in his teeth

I think this guy definitely needs two fangs, like a vampire

cleanup the edges a bit and I think he looks sharp

Like it

I think I like this guy the way he is

Icons I haven't redone with the new proportions yet:
Like them

Icons I'm still planning to do:
Wink
Crazy
Sticking out tongue
Rolling Eyes
Whoops? (these question marks are maybes)
Laughing?
Red feathers in mouth?

If you have any suggestions for icons post them now so I can put them in my to-do list.

I like your plans, the red feathers in mouth is one I'm definitely looking forward to.

[ABYUFAN]

I nominate Sammich as "man of the year" for his work on these. I really have no suggestions other than the idea that the "wink" guy to use the grin from the grin guy in connection with the wink...

[Sammich]

Okay, here are some fixes and additions. These are also two pixels smaller, we'll see if the difference is negligible or not:



One quick question for the Hawkwing or anyone who knows about this board format: Do they have to be .gif files or can I use .png if I want?

[kiwibacon]

I like all the revisements. They look pretty clean and not much from me as far as "improvement" for the most recent revisions.

Thanks again for your work.

[Kbear]

really cool thanks Sammich