Welcome to this week’s volume of so we heard you liek emotes. This is the 54th 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.
Free emote pack 1 by `Droneguard just leaves me speechless with an amazing range of brilliant emotes with a really professional look

2.
The swine flew by *priteeboy has already had a good deal of attention but i couldn’t resist featuring it. Its a brilliant animated emote with a really original idea and extremely amusing

3.
I simply adore :bicycle: by =Waluigi-Prower. It’s a simple but effect emote with a great piece of emote humour and a nicely pixelled bicycle.

4.
Strange world by `krissi001 is a wonderful piece of pixelling with great detail and lovely colours.

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Another brilliant emote posted this week was :blue: by =elicoronel16. The detail on the colour and raindrops combine together to make an awesome emote that you really just want to hug.

Other great emoticons posted recently



DDs

Recently there have been a number of cases people speak out about DDs (as a whole, not specifically emotes) and at times their facts aren’t quite correct, partly because of a lack of knowledge on the DD process and the systems behind the scenes that you never see.

To help explain some of this, ^Katmomma has made an awesome video highlighting some of key points about suggesting DDs and i urge all of you to take some time out of your day (if you haven’t already) to check out this video.



Free Programs

One of the confusing things about getting started within emotes is which program to use. Many of the well known ones are pretty expensive and things such as MS Paint bring their own set of issues. Its because of this i started up a page on =Emotication soon after it opened designated to free programs and trials.

I won’t ever say one program is better than another. A lot of it is down to personal preference. So if you are starting out in emotes or just not happy with your current program be sure to check out this list for a selection of alternatives to try.

Noticeboard

- The winners of the recent Halloween contest were announced this week. You can check them out here

- The 10th edition of OC interviews was posted late last week but unfortunately just missed last week’s issue. You can check it out on on this page in case you haven’t seen it yet

- You can also check out edition 11 here

- Since we are now in November (not quite sure where October vanished to) Joel posted a roundup of last month’s DD’s in this article

- A new contest with a 3 month sub up for grabs was launched this week. Be sure to check out here for details

- The winner of the caption contest round 5 was announced on this page and the 6th caption contest was launched here

- Also this week the winners of the ‘wash’ opus contest were announced. Be sure to check them out in this journal




Previous volumes

Volumes 1-45
Volume 46 - 13th September
Volume 47 - 20th September
Volume 48 - 27th September
Volume 49 - 4th October
Volume 50 - 12th October
Volume 51 - 18th October
Volume 52 - 25th October
Volume 53 - 2nd November

Interviews 1-15
Interview 16 - =Sinister-Starfeesh - 16th September
Interview 17 - =Marc-pHX - 30th September
Interview 18 - =BlissfullySarcastic - 16th October
Interview 19 - *nillemotes/=zachriel - 29th October