Welcome to this week’s volume of so we heard you liek emotes. This is the 36th 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:

1.
I absolutely adore Tards are invincible by =mushir. It’s an amazing concept and brilliantly executed to make an outstanding and amusing emoticon

2.
Ice cream van by `CookiemagiK is just a stunning piece of work. The idea is excellent and it has been created flawlessly to make a brilliant combination of emoticon and comic.

3.
It’s always brilliant to go back to old emoticons and remake them to show how far you have progressed. This is certainly the case with Changing Worlds revamp by =Sinister-Starfeesh The stunning backgrounds and smooth animation come together to make this a brilliant revamp of her first version.

4.
Zooming within an emote canvas is never an easy thing to master, but its been done exceptionally well in :ownbuilding: by ~ROBlNHOOD. The animation throughout is smooth and idea is both well executed and rather amusing

5.
seed by =IAmTheMovement offers a very cute and unique twist on an emoticon, with brilliant pixelling and choice of colours

Other great emoticons posted recently



Legend Revamp

I am sure if you watch my journals (and a few others in the community) you will have heard about the legend revamp currently going on. As the dictionary has come to a standstill until other dA projects are up and running, $eStunt has kindly offered to donate his time and put some positivity back into the community.

We are looking (on a small scale) to revamp the current emoticon legend. There are a number of emotes on there that need updating and quite a few in the community that really deserve a spot on the legend list. This is now your chance.

We are looking for 10 new emotes and 10 revamped emote for the legend! This means in total 20 new emotes will be available for use. However there are some rules attacted:

- The emotes must be useful within everyday conversation
- The emotes must be small (approx 35x35 pixels)
- The must have transparent backgrounds
- The mustn’t be a copyright infringement (No brand names)
- They must not contain personal emote characters
- If possible, they should loop properly and not exit the canvas

- The llama and emotes can not be replaced
- Character specific emotes (e.g spyed/jark) emotes can not be replaced

The deadline for this is the 21st June. All suggestions must be submitted as comment on this journal

I will look at every suggestion, but wont get a chance to answer every comment. You can browse the suggested ‘new’ emotes here and the suggested ‘revamp’ emotes here

Featured Projects

It’s kinda saddening to see the number of new projects reducing, but a relief at the same time. None the less, we had another project start this week

Emote Movie Poster



This is an awesome new project hosted by =elicoronel16. The idea is to create a movie poster staring some of the emotes from around dA. Its set to be a great final project, but is slightly lacking in entries so far, so make sure you go check it out and take part.

Noticeboard

It’s been an action packed week for the emote community with several large community events happening. It will be awesome to see some of these new plans in place.

- The new category structure progressed onto stage 3b with a summary of category descriptions and then onto part 4 to discuss other issues related to the revamp.

- I will hopefully get a chance to summarise the whole category revamp and should be having a meeting some point this week to discuss the changes we would like to see

- After updating a lot of the =Emotication pages (sorry for the journal spamming) I decided to totally revamp the mentors system. You can read about the new changes in this journal

- *EmoticonOpus announced the winners of its recent Angel contest on this page

- The opus then kicked off a new contest with a devil/demon theme. You can find more info here. Prize donations are appreciated on this

- ~madb0y also launched a new contest this week. It challenges you to revamp one of your old emoticons to see how much your style/skill has changed since making it the first time. You can find out more info in this journal. Prize donations are again appreciated.

- Due to catching up on things, ^DeMaulwurfn has decided to combine may and june’s DD summaries into one article. Be sure to keep an eye out for that

- I managed to have a chat with $spyed about the dictionary while at a hq devmeet. I can certainly say that its been well thought through and will be awesome when it comes out.

- The next interview in the so I herd u like interviews?? Series was posted this week. This volume’s featured emoticonist was =Kermodog and you can read a copy of it here

- `CookiemagiK spent some time this week figuring out the minimum frame rates of different browsers. It is definitely worth a read, and you can find a copy in this journal



Previous volumes

Volumes 1-25
Volume 26 - 5th April
Volume 27 - 12th April
Volume 28 - 19th April
Volume 29 - 26th April
Volume 30 - 4th May
Volume 31 - 10th May
Volume 32 - 17th May
Volume 33 - 24th May
Volume 34 - 31st May
Volume 35 - 7th June

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
Interview 8 - =Droneguard - 28th April
Interview 9 - =krissi001 - 14th May
Interview 10 - =Waluigi-Prower - 28th May
Interview 11 - =Kermodog - 12th June