Design an Emoticon! Created 17 years ago2007-07-21 06:19:26 UTC by AJ

A simple and easy one for you all to get into: design an emoticon for TWHL! The best ones will be chosen and added to the TWHL collection of emoticons. They'll also make it into TWHL3.

When I think of some rules, I'll add 'em, but I'm incredibly tired, so my lovely assistant Penguinboy will fill in as nessecary.

I PRESENT TO YOU EXHIBIT A:THIS IS A SMILEY.
NOTE SEVERAL THINGS ABOUT THIS SMILEY:
1. It is smiling.
2. Its dimensions are 15x15 pixels.
3. It is a gif.
4. It has a transparent background.

Points ONE, TWO, and THREE are the rules your smiley must obey. Except point ONE. Oh, and point FOUR is a rule too.

There is a thread here that happened to be a smiley contest. But, most of them are bigger than 15x15 px, so if the creators of them wanna resize them, submit them here.

ANIMATION IS ALLOWED, BUT THE FILESIZE MUST BE LESS THAN 5kb.
No stupid entries please.
From that thread, this smiley, made by SRRY, wins automatically:SRRY: YOU MUST MAKE THIS TRANSPARENT TO WIN AUTOMATICALLY!

Maximum of TEN THOUSAND (10,000) NEW smileys will get entry. Please note that I'm sick to death of the current smileys, so well designed replacements can be submitted also, outside the 10,000 new ones.

HOW TO ENTER
Post your smiley in this thread, with the suggested smile code.'

EXAMPLESmiley code -

END EXAMPLE (srry make up your own code with the transparent one)

Multiple submissions are allowed.

HIGH PRIORITY CANDIDATES FOR REPLACEMENT:
- Doesn't look anything like ':x'
- Can anyone say RETARD?
- See above.
- Fix the mouth.
- This one looks like its on drugs.
- ...
- Shouldn't have fangs.
- This is getting deleted if a replacement cant be found. I hate it.
- Doesn't look angry at all. should be replaced with code :constipated:
- It's stuck in my pooper D:, this should be nervous, not that.
- This one just screams "OMG REPLACE ME"
- ....a violent version of ? replace.
- less asian and more sleepy. kthx.

Feel free to replace others too. and change to colours, etc.
To submit a replacement, submit as above, except replace the Smiley code line with "Replacement - " and the smiley to be replaced.

TO KEEP THE THREAD CLEAN, SPAM POSTS AND/OR SUBMUSSIONS THAT BREAK THE RULES WILL BE DELETED. QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS ON SUBMISSIONS ARE ALLOWED, BUT SUBMISSIONS THAT DO NOT ADHERE TO THE RULES WILL BE DELETED FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF ENTRANTS AND MODERATORS. THIS INCLUDES SUBMISSIONS WITHOUT THE SMILEY CODE LINE, AND ANY IMAGE THAT MODERATORS SUSPECT ARE NOT ORIGINAL ARTWORK.

What defines a winner? Are we looking for an emoticon that fills an emotion/statement not already found in the existing ones, or one that just looks cool?

Both. You can create ones to fit the style of the ones we have, or you can create some different ones, so long as they're not huge.

We'll basically just split the new emoticons into categories. Anyone who makes one like the current ones will get added to that group, otherwise they'll go in another.

EXAMPLE SUBMISSION:

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Smiley Code - :doabarrelroll:

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END EXAMPLE
This is not a real entry, but an example. Deleting spam posts in this thread will be of heavy use. This thread is a no-tolerance thread! You have been warned.

Ghetto, what did they say about transparency? :/

works

Ghetto's illegal entries have been deleted. Read the Rules again, ghetto! -mod

yeah maybe you deleted my smileys, but why did you delete my comment and suggestion?

This post is classified as spam, but it will stay to explain that ghetto commented on the example entry, which is just stupid.

Please keep all posts to submissions, comments or suggestions about submissions, or asking a question about the rules. -mod

Hoping this works...Smilie Code - Smilie Code - :crosseyes: (Could also be replacement for :sarcastic:)Smilie Code -

There are others I made ages ago, but A) they were for another forum and B) they're bigger than 15x15.

Ghettowned:greaterthan::brotherhoodof:

both of you. good cool emotes

Ps. That wasn't necessary at all.

Edit: haha! daustars post got removed

= pwn. ^^

:pwntintheface:

I do think combine ciggie and greaterthan pwn.
I do think :pwntintheface: Ouch lol.
I do think I should've learned my ABCs back at 1st grade (last year), for Daubster isn't quite spelled daubstar.
.. and I should stop thinking.. Ouch lol.

the first one, and to make them transparent, open in photoshop and delete the black, save as transparent gif. another option is to get ifranview, a freeware image program, save it as gif, and choose 'select transparent colour', and pick black.

I see a replacement for
#2 looks better imo.

i suggest you move the whole face a bit lower, make the left eyebrow high, and add a lower right eyebrow.

http://www.themightyatom.nl/stuff/twhl_muzz.gif http://www.themightyatom.nl/stuff/twhl_ftw.gif
http://www.themightyatom.nl/stuff/twhl_kirby.gif

Old shite, made for Rimrooks old smillie compo.

Like i said, they were made for Rims compo, there was no 15x15 px rule at that time...

orto preserve the white mouth theme
:omg: (That's supposed to be ": o m g:" but the emoticon thing screwed it up) or :bullseye:, whichever you like (a potential replacement for ):heartbroken:

guys, we need more half-life specific smileys too. dont just stay in the generic TWHL-type smiley category~

Just hard to do within 15x15. In that you've got a very limited space to work with.

These are some of my old ones, THEY ARE OVER THE SIZE LIMIT SO THEY ARE NOT BEING ENTERED.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v434/Kinrah/Emotes/poweroutlet.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v434/Kinrah/hugbrain.gif

and I should stop thinking.

Actually a very good idea.

:gman:

I think GMan needs more identifying characteristics.

:um::hitler::hmf::sleep::heil::lambda:

Just some quick ones I did for ideas.

:rolleyes:

Meh, couldn't be bothered making it transparent.
MS Paint ftw!!

- This is getting deleted if a replacement cant be found. I hate it.

You can't delete that one! That's orgasim man!

...opinions?

Eyes are too... weird.

:vortigaunt:

A little something by me. I hope these are good enough to be used. I'm not very good at making smileys, though.

Right, I'll make that one I made transparent.

Even if it's not 15 by 15, not this one?

http://oxihosting.com/files/4/smileygunstrans5um.gif

Someone around here made it, me thinks.

EDIT: Strider did

There.

What's wrong with using :combine:? Oh, whatever... how about :elite:?

@Rotator: I really like those, but they'd be so much better with some nice shading. Way too flat right now.

:HL2::thumbsup::thumbsdown:

I'm still thinking of some more.

2. Its dimensions are 15x15 pixels.

Here's a slightly edited version of one I used in my journal::nerd:

Whether it's this one or not, we NEED A :nerd: one.

I vote for these. They're among the most practical thus far.

That first one was an auto-win anyway.

Still, thanks.

I think the Gordon one needs more shading (as stated earlier) and needs to be a tad rounder. Right now it doesn't really match the others.

is it possible to go a little wider but no taller than 15px?

Edit: Another thing I noticed about the Gordon one was that it wasn't outlined in black. That's why it stands out as being so different.

there's no room for it on that one. a solid outline will make it larger than 15x15 px

i don't think it needs it, really.

I see...

Possible "aggrieved" replacement?...

http://oxihosting.com/files/4/smileygunstrans5um.gif

These're awesome.
We should also add SpaG's headcrab-bashing smiley.

Where does he keep it? Because thats another insta-win.

Yeah, Gordon does look a little odd; I was trying to keep his head from looking too round. I'll definitely outline him in black, though.

I especially like that vortigaunt emoticon.

people, please stop posting gifs if they are not being entered. this includes the cool gun shootey one. links are fine, dont post images. this lets us scan through the thread quickly looking for winners. cant do that with illegal entries there.

zombieloffe's entry has been deleted because it broke the rules.

Meanie.

I made a couple but I cant make them Gifs in photoshop. Save to web is greyed out.

If you're in Image Ready, its "Save as Optimized..."

If you're in CS3, and it's grayed out, then that mean you were running a trial and its up. =P

oh shit, i made mine .png.. does it matter too much? they're still transparent and less than one kb

repost them as gifs.

:gordan:

Now, I don't know if i'm the only one who's thinking this, but seeing as TWHL3 is using a modified colour theme, shouldn't the smileys use the new colours too? I don't imagine this brownish colour would look too nice on TWHL3's theme. It wouldn't need to be a drastic change, just something that won't stick out so much.