Emoticons

[Haelbarde he/him]

Hey there o/
 
Dunno if you can tell, but upon occasion, I have dabbled with digital art. 

Now, a particular area of interest of mine is pixel/emoticons. I shared a bunch over here awhile back.
I've done a few more since then:

Now the last one I made ( ) is what leads me to this topic.

What I was thinking of doing, is trying to make an extended set of emoticons that could be potentially added to the forum to deal with more of the various smilies people you around the forum. That last one would work as a nice replacement for

>

.

 

So my question for you is:

 

What smilies should I make emotes to replace?

 

Bonus points if you give me a suggestion for how it could look.

 

EDIT: By which I'm asking, 'What smilies do people use that you'd rather were auto-replaced with emotes'.

As in how

gets replaced with . For example, I would use >: D, o/ or \o/ upon occasion

Edit: Current list:

Edited July 5, 2017 by Haelbarde

[Mailliw73 he/him]

That angry one is one I've wanted often. XD would be nice too. 

[RandomRevival he/him]

What if we make an emoticon.

About BRANDON SANDERSON???

[Haelbarde he/him]

That angry one is one I've wanted often. XD would be nice too. 

How do these look:  

Which one works better?

 

What if we make an emoticon.

About BRANDON SANDERSON???

This could be a good start:  (typewriter)

Edited June 24, 2015 by Haelbarde

[Mailliw73 he/him]

How do these look:  

Which one works better?

 

 

This could be a good start:  (typewriter)

Honestly, it took me a second to notice the difference, but I'd say the one on the right.

[Haelbarde he/him]

Honestly, it took me a second to notice the difference, but I'd say the one on the right.

My sister agreed with you that that was the better, but suggested I move the right eye another pixel over (to make it symmetrical), so have a third variant: .

If you wanted to use these, you could copy the link, and use when you post (or you could save the file, then attach it to a post, then it'd appear under 'My Media' as an attachment). Otherwise, I'll try convince Chaos to add these for everyone.

[Turos]

These are awesome!

 

o.o Your Syl emoticon is EPIC!

Edited June 28, 2015 by Turos

[Guest]

I see a lot, but I would have to be shown a REALLY GOOD emoticon to switch from the classic to a smilie.

[Bort he/him]

This could be a good start:  (typewriter)

 

This is great Hael, but the typewriter moves too slowly.

[Haelbarde he/him]

This is great Hael, but the typewriter moves too slowly.

This is true. That was just what I had on hand. I'll work on it.

[Turos]

This is great Hael, but the typewriter moves too slowly.

Haha! True. For Brandon, you might need two typewriters.

[Herowannabe he/him]

I talked with Chaos once very briefly about adding some inquisitor-emoticons to the site, like the ones in my sig (click the spoiler tags). He said he would want something in the style of the site's current emoticons, and that's about where the conversation died. Having all the Allomantic symbols in my sig as emoticons would be awesome, too. I can't take credit for those though- I believe it was Claincy who came up with them.

 

As far as more traditional emoticons go, I would love something to replace :\ and -__-

 

EDIT: Belated update:

I should note that at steelministry.com (where all of the emoticons in my sig came from) we use 3:( and 3:D for the angry and happy inquisiticons, respectively.

Edited July 7, 2015 by Herowannabe

[Claincy he/him]

I talked with Chaos once very briefly about adding some inquisitor-emoticons to the site, like the ones in my sig (click the spoiler tags). He said he would want something in the style of the site's current emoticons, and that's about where the conversation died. Having all the Allomantic symbols in my sig as emoticons would be awesome, too. I can't take credit for those though- I believe it was Claincy who came up with them.

I made the font, but I didn't add the emoticons to steelministry so I don't know if that's where tec got the images for them.

[Guest]

Funny thing, when I was writing my above post in this thread, I didn't even realize that already had an emoticon.

[Herowannabe he/him]

I made the font, but I didn't add the emoticons to steelministry so I don't know if that's where tec got the images for them.

Actually, reading this triggered my memory. Yes, I WAS the one who did the allomancy emoticons As I recall, I grabbed screenshots from the PDF of the Mistborn Adventure Game manual and then condensed them down to emoticon size.

[Haelbarde he/him]

Made another two today, just dropping them here so I don't lose them:

[Haelbarde he/him]

New one for the most recent book release:

[Mestiv he/him]

Have you thought about making emoticons as vector graphic? They would look super-sharp on every screen, especially on high-end mobiles Although making vector graphic requires different tools...

[Haelbarde he/him]

If I was going to completly redo all the emoticons (Brandonify all the standard emotes, and all that), then vector graphics is probably the way to go. But I'm pretty sure that the low-res emotes on the site aren't just scalled down versions of the HD ones. The HD ones look like they could have been made as vector graphics, I suppose. But I digress. For the most part, the ones I've made have been made by basically taking elements from a couple of the existing emotes, sticking them together, and then doing some pixel edits as necessary. And I've got things like a blank circle emote template, or a template project for the annimated book ones now. 

Plus, I'm not sure if the forum is designed to use vector graphics. A question for Chaos, I think. I mean, if it did support vector graphics, then I'd be open to converting the current ones into vector format. 

Hmm... Now brandonifying the emotes would be cool... I'd need some suggestions for what to do with each emote, I think...

[CarolaDavar she/her]

Another one you should do is ;P for a  but with a wink instead. Do you understand? If not, I could tr to explain better. . .

[Haelbarde he/him]

12 minutes ago, CarolaDavar said:

Another one you should do is ;P for a  but with a wink instead. Do you understand? If not, I could tr to explain better. . .

Give me five minutes.

[CarolaDavar she/her]

2 minutes ago, Haelbarde said:

Give me five minutes.

O.O Okay. wow. fast. efficient. How about the one i just used? O.O (That would be fun!)

[Haelbarde he/him]

15 minutes ago, CarolaDavar said:

O.O Okay. wow. fast. efficient. How about the one i just used? O.O (That would be fun!)

 
A bit longer than 5 minutes, sorry. And I'm not super happy with it. I think it needs eyebrows...

And I'll see what I can do. What do you use that to mean? Because there is this one built in: 

Edited July 1, 2016 by Haelbarde

[Arraenae]

I think O.O, o.o, and  all have slightly different meanings.

O.O Major shock, as in "WHAAAAAT"?

o.o Minor shock, as in "what?"

O.o Skeptism.

 Skeptism, same as O.o, but O.o doesn't convert automatically to this.

[Haelbarde he/him]

Just now, Arraenae said:

I think O.O, o.o, and  all have slightly different meanings.

O.O Major shock, as in "WHAAAAAT"?

o.o Minor shock, as in "what?"

O.o Skeptism.

 Skeptism, same as O.o, but O.o doesn't convert automatically to this.

 Are ;blink; and ;huh; using colons instead of semicolons. I believe Chaos is open to changing them to O.o and o.O, but I think he's busy atm...

I'll see what I can do.