Welcome to this week’s volume of so we heard you liek emotes. This is the 19th volume in a weekly series aimed towards promoting emote and emoticonists from the dA community. It features emotes posted within the past week from both well known and new emoticonists, as well as featuring some other great emote projects and contests.

Featured Emoticons:

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From the moment I got a sneaky look at a WIP of Why Jetpacks Should No Exist by =the-unnamed21 I fell in love with it. It takes all that is good about an emoticon and squishes it into one animation. The idea is extremely original, and the animation is a brilliant test of perspective. The emoticon is animated very well and the shading is excellent. I can’t help but giggle every time its posted on dAmn and watch it over and over, which is why it is a must see emoticon posted this week.

2.
I am always amused to see how people can use emoticons in different ways which is what drew my attention to Emotigrapes by ~Ails. The emoticons are put together very well and the shading is excellent. The faces on the individual grapes is a very nice touch, giving this emote a place in the feature area this week.

3.
Another excellent emoticon posted this week is :WereMote: by =LeoLeonardo. Not only does it have a stunning background, but also an amazing animation sequence. The transformation of the emoticon is nicely done and the emoticon loops well as a whole. Overall it is a brilliant emoticon that is well worth watching a few time to take in all the details

4.
With valentines day yesterday, there have been a number of hug and love related emoticons posted. You by ^Hanratty-Stock is one of the ones that stood out. Sometimes just a simple gesture such as a hug is all a person need and this emoticon represents it perfectly. The expression on its face and the hand positioning is brilliant and really enhances the whole emoticon.

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:pond: by ~CookieStarz is this week’s final featured emoticon. The shading of the fountain on this emoticon is very interesting to look at and each emoticon is nicely placed. The animation is simple yet very effective giving a great look to the overall emoticon.

Other great emoticons posted recently



Featured Project

This week a new emoticon project was launched

hosted by ~Emoticlown-ist

The theme of the project is a skate park and anything relating to it. Both animated and static entries are allowed, and the use of flash for the project allows you to even more the characters around the screen and listen into some gossip. It’s well worth checking out and entering, even if its only a static emote to stand and watch.

So grab those decks, helmets and elbow pads and head over to the skatepark

Valentines feature

As stated last week, I am posting a valentine’s day feature for emoticons made at any point that in some way relate to valentines day



Noticeboard

A new emoticon contest was announced this week. `ginkgografix is hosting a CSS fairy contest for which a fairy emoticon meeting certain specification must be designed and created. For a full list of details and prizes, check out this journal.

Hopefully the new set of Gallery Moderators will be announced soon and a new GM for emotes put in place

A closing date for the Blank Emoticon Contest has now been set as 20th March. For more information and updates, take a look at this news article

I am trying to compile a list of ways to improve the emoticon gallery and community and have set up a poll here for suggestions

A 3rd volume of the interview series linked with this news article was posted earlier this week. If you missed it, you can catch up on it here

Notes

If you would like to suggest a project, emote or emoticonist to be featured please leave me a note on my =Synfull account. I am also looking for more questions and tutorials to be featured, so any suggestions are welcome . Tutorials do not have to have been submitted in the week of the news article.



Previous volumes

Volume 1 - 12th Oct
Volume 2 - 19th Oct
Volume 3 - 27th Oct
Volume 4 - 2nd Nov
Volume 5 - 9th Nov
Volume 6 - 16th Nov
Volume 7 - 23rd Nov
Volume 8 - 30th Nov
Volume 9 - 7th Dec
Volume 10 - 14th Dec
Volume 11 - 21st Dec
Volume 12 - 28th Dec
Volume 13 - 4th Jan
Volume 14 - 11th Jan
Volume 15 - 18th Jan
Volume 16 - 25th Jan
Volume 17 - 1st Feb
Volume 18 - 8th Feb

Interview 1- =CookiemagiK - 15th January
Interview 2 - =Caeser1993 - 30th January
Interview 2 - =MenInASuitcase - 12th February