Hey Pixel Freaks and Emoticon Lovers!

Alright. So I have a long awaited update for you. Yes, it's time to start changing this awesome little (well, not so little) Emoticon Legend that we all know and love. We will be giving many of those little smiley guys a facelift. I know there has been much effort from the emoticon community to give a "fixing up" to many current emotes we have right now. I was appointed by $spyed and the $lolly to help you guys out and make this official. Please note, at this point in time, we are only going to be revising current emoticons. Any additions and deletions of emoticons will have to wait for later revisions. But at least this is a start!

So here's the plan. Get yer pencil and gradient tools ready! We'll make this a contest of sorts....Basically, the general rule of the contest is that if you make a revision of a current emote that, by the judges' standards, is better than the current emote, you win! Here's what you win: Your version of the emote will make it into the Emoticon Legend and will replace the old emote. Simple? I think so.

A revision can be anything from new shading, to new animation, or changing it completely. Here's the catch! The revision must be clearly noticeable from the original. This will be decided on by a panel of judges--specifically myself, ^rocksicle, $lolly, and possibly some others.

In addition to revising the Legend, in the future I will be making a list of emotes to axe--ones that we don't want to revise because they should be removed from the legend. After all that is done, I'll be making several journals collecting emote additions and ideas for new potential emotes. We have lots to do!

If you're interested, please keep an eye on my journal. We'll be doing some pretty awesome stuff together as a community. It will take a while, but after all, "Rome wasn't built in ...." yeah you know how it goes. In addition, please do not note/email me with 50,000 different emoticon deviation links--that's not how this will work. I will be doing several journals where in each journal I'll be asking for specific emoticons that need to be revised.

So, make sure you stay tuned for further details!