Welcome to this week’s volume of so we heard you liek emotes. This is the 23rd 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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It’s unusually for emoticons to have feet, but they are certainly used to their advantage in Snowboarder by *Mattdrew The animation is smooth throughout and the shading is excellent. It’s a brilliant emoticon from a brand new emoticonist, and I look forward to any more they make in the future

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Everyone has an off day once in a while, and Hurt by ^Hanratty-Stock is a perfect emoticon to represent this. The eyes are used to their full potential and the way the emote squishes really gives a depressed feeling to it. The tear is also a brilliant addition, making this an all round excellent emote.

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Although it’s past valentine’s day, I always love to see a heart related emoticon. I really love the unique idea in La mort de l’amour by ~Zmann966. The animation is also smooth throughout and the shading is excellent, making this another great emoticon submitted this week.

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One great thing about emoticons is the ability to your lots of colour, and its great to see ~Yoshiko-86 has made full advantage of this in Tard rainbow. The shading on all of the emoticons is very smooth and the arc is nicely made. The expressions are all very amusing, ad prove an emoticon doesn’t have to be animated to be great.

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Its always great to see people trying out new special effects, and its no exception in Wizard enjoys the spell by ~madb0y. The animation is smooth and the bouncing is nicely created. The sparkling effect around the blue emoticon is well pixelled, giving this emote that last featured spot in this week’s article

Other great emoticons posted recently



First Featured Projects

We appear to have had another surge of emoticon projects this week. To save on space, they have all been placed under one header this time around

Swimming pool project



The swimming pool project hosted by ~YounisAMAX is a great little emoticon project. The idea is simple, create an emoticon to fit in with the swimming pool background. Only static entries are accepted, but it’s a great project to attempt, especially if you are new to emoticons

Red dot Project



Every other year in the UK there is a fundraising day known as Comic Relief Day or ‘Red Nose Day’ to help raise funds for children in the UK and Africa. I’ve never before seen a fund raising emoticon project, but it’s a great idea. You can help raise money by simply using the red base supplied and turning it into an emoticon. For every emoticon submitted, an extra 35p will be donated to the charity. So even if you have only 10 mins, please consider making an entry, and help out a great cause at the same time. Due to the type of project, the deadline is the 31st March, but that still gives 15 days to have a go

Rock the world project



Already a popular project, the rock the world project hosted by =Sinister-Starfeesh is another excellent project launched this week. To enter all you have to do is use the base provided and add some characters to their own little rock. Again only static emoticons are accepted, but the project so far is looking great and I hope to see even more entries

Featured Tutorials

If you’ve every wanted a tutorial other than a set of words on paper, its always worth checking out the video tutorials section. Below are 3 useful video tutorials. Even if you don’t use the same program they can always be interesting to watch to give you a feel of how others create emoticons

Vid tut by =b0r3d13

Emoticon video tutorial by ~Dumnezeu

Advanced animation tutorial by =elenulin

Noticeboard

Earlier this week another volume of ‘so I herd u liek interviews??’ was posted, this time featuring =LeoLeonardo. If you missed it you can always check out a copy here

I apologise for not getting around to launching the second half of the mentors project. So far 19 mentors have signed up and me and `brokenboulevard will soon set up an application form to fill out for having a mentor. Make sure you have =Emotication on your watchlist if your interested

The blank face emoticon contest still needs more people to vote for the winner. It only takes a few minutes, so make sure you check out this journal for more info

The results of the CSS fairy emoticon contest were also announced this week. You can go check out the results here and be sure to go congratulate the winners

The fiery beard contest closes in just over a week’s time. If you haven’t yet seen it, you can check out the details on this page



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
Volume 19 - 15th Feb
Volume 20 - 22nd Feb
Volume 21 - 1st March
Volume 22 - 8th March


Interview 1- =CookiemagiK - 15th January
Interview 2 - =Caeser1993 - 30th January
Interview 3 - =MenInASuitcase - 12th February
Interview 4 - =Red-Bananas - 27th February
Interview 5 - =LeoLeonardo - 12th March