Welcome to this week’s volume of so we heard you liek emotes. This is the 29th 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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I just can’t stop looking at Cheerleader by `CookiemagiK. The fluidity of the movement is outstanding and the expressions used are extremely well pixelled. The movements are well thought out and extremely cute, making this an emoticon I just can’t take my eyes off.

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I couldn’t resist featuring Make the World Spin by =elicoronel16. The cute animation and amazing shading on the emote combine together to create a brilliant emoticon to celebrate Earth Day earlier this week. The idea is well displayed and the eye style really shows a lot of emoticon, making this a must see emote from this week.

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TardBee by =LoneHana is another great emoticon posted this week. The bee is rather adorable and the animation has been nicely done. The expressions used work will with the animation and the emote loops well at a whole, giving it this weeks third featured spot.

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I couldn’t help but giggle when I saw RickRoll by =LeoLeonardo. The animation is very smooth and a movement works well with the purpose of the emote. The hair has been well pixelled and really enhances the emote as a whole. Its definitely worth having a closer look.

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This week’s final featured emote is Pregnancy by ~Wooded-Wolf. It’s a unique and brilliant display of a question many parents hope they never have to answer. Each part has been nicely pixelled and linked well together. The ending is a brilliant touch and adds an amusing element to this great emote.

Other great emoticons posted recently



Fonts

Sometimes you may need a font to use within your emoticons, and developing your own is not always easy. Some programs allow you to use normal fonts in a small size and produce clear results, however if doing this, you may need to ensure the anti-alias is turned off to produce pixelled lines.

Alternatively, there are a number of different fonts available on dA which are pixel based and small enough to use within avatars and emoticons. However please remember to credit the original artist if using someone’s pre-made font. Below are a number of examples I found and I’m sure there are many others by searching words such as ‘ixel font’



Mega Emotes

You have most likely seen the latest craze to hit the emote world … mega emotes. After I featured a few last week, I felt it might be nice to do a larger feature this week.

As a point of interest, these emotes are being allowed within the emote gallery. However please make sure they are in the correct category. The majority of the ones posted so far belong in Customization > Icons > Emoticons > Packs and Larger Format as they are emotes of a larger size than the average. The exception to this is when it also contains emote of regular size, which allows these to be placed in the normal animated or static categories.

I’m hoping at some point we might see a tutorial (or two) on how to create these emotes, but for now, I’ll leave you with some of my personal favourites so far



Noticeboard

- A little know emoticon project known as the Bathtub Project hosted by ~Nilaroo was launched this week. To enter you must take a copy of the template and add a character to it to extend the image. So rubba-dub-dub, lets get some emotes in the tub.

- =LeoLeonardo posted another volume in his ‘Chance to shine’ series. If you missed it, you can find a copy here

- Leo is also looking for deviants to make a stamp to promote the news article series. If your interested, the information can be found in this journal

- You can have a triple lot of Leo News this week as he was interviewed by ^PurpelBlur in the interview series devious Minds. You can check out a copy of it here

- =P0rkch0p released the results of his contest this week. You can see a list of winners on this page

- I'm interested in your opinions on the emote submission categories. To put forward your opinions, check out this poll



Previous volumes

Volumes 1-20
Volume 21 - 1st March
Volume 22 - 8th March
Volume 23 - 15th March
Volume 24 - 22nd March
Volume 25 - 29th March
Volume 26 - 5th April
Volume 27 - 12th April
Volume 28 - 19th April

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
Interview 6 - =MixedMilkChOcOlate - 28th March
Interview 7 - `brokenboulevard - 14th April