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About this article Welcome to this edition of Blast from the Past. This is the 1st volume in a series aimed at promoting older emoticonists from the dA community.
The emoticon community changes from week to week and while we constantly gain new members, we also lose a number of brilliant emoticonists along the way. Some have left dA, while others have progressed onto other art forms or just chosen to take a break from pushing pixels. I feel it's a shame that many new deviants miss out on viewing awesome emoticons from the past, so have started this news series to hopefully highlight a few of them, along with their creators
hprince329 For the first deviant in the first article i felt i really must start with hprince329. His gallery contains a range of great emoticons that cover a variety of expressions and situations. Even though the community has moved on in both shading and animation styles, his emoticons are still really useful in chats and conversation, with many holding a place on the emoticon legend.
Despite being made over 8 years ago, the hug emoticon is still used all over our community. The simple animation may not be the smoothest, but it still works perfectly and allows you to pass on that all important hug.
The movement in Evil Laugh flows smoothly from frame to frame creating a really great piece of animation work. The slight details included in the hands and expressions really enhance the motion and create a great sense of evil.
Sarcatic Clap is another of hprince's emotes that is still used in our community today. The range of eye movements and hand motions work well together to bring across a great feeling of sarcasm and make yet another really useful emoticon.
Other emoticons by this artist
zikes zikes is most commonly known for his range of useful scripts (including the old Zikes emoticon script) but was once an emoticonist himself. You can find a collection of his cute (and often green) emoticons still in his gallery.
I simply adore this emote. The concept is displayed brilliantly with great detail and expressions that really enhance the animation.
:decoy: is just a another brilliant emoticon made by zikes. The idea is put across well with fluent motion and a rather amusing ending.
You can't help but go awww at this emoticon. It's animated smoothly from start to finish with an adorable theme and brilliant detail in the blush motion.
Other emoticons by this artist
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I am hoping to develop this news article into a small series featuring more deviants that were previously active in the emote community . If you have a suggestion to improve this news article or would like to suggest someone for me to feature then feel free to note my Synfull account
Winds of change
Whilst I'm not overly active on dA any more, I still pop in once in a while and thought I'd do a bit of a life update for anyone else who still lurks around here. The last few months have been a bit of a whirlwind for me. At the end of June, the software company I worked for failed to get the investment it needed, meaning that I lost my job along with the majority of out Dev and QA team. I'd been working in the same company for nearly 10 years and really enjoyed my time there, so it was a shame I had to leave. Luckily for me, I had quite a long notice period (9 weeks) which was long enough to find a new job and then have a few weeks off. This gave me the chance to spend a lot of time with my sister and her family (who were visiting from America) and go for a number of walks in my local national park called The Peak District. I started my new role a few weeks ago. I think it's going ok but it will take some time to adjust to working in a new company. It didn't help that I caught
Welcome to 2023!
Happy New Year! I just realised that I didn't write a single journal in 2022. Whoops. I am still lurking around here and pop in a few times a week, but I haven't had much to post/update. So what was 2022 like for me? Quite mixed. The year started off strong. I spent the Spring months working on my house - I painted the fences, shed and decking, decorated a blank wall in my office and then spent a few days painting my bathroom. Over the summer, things hit a bump in the road. I had a number of fun plans arranged, which all had to be scrapped as I (and a friend staying with me) caught Covid. Fortunately no long lasting effects, and we both made the most of the situation, but it wasn't quite the relaxing week we had planned. Oh well. In Autumn, I tried to make up for missed opportunities, and think I took on a little too much at once. I filled a lot of my free time with meetups or walks or other house improvements, which resulted in feeling exhausted since around the end of
NaNoEmo Roundup 2021
With the blink of an eye it's now December and NaNoEmo has finished for another year. It has been an absolute delight to see a number of emoticonist take part, breathing some life back into a community that is dormant for much of the year. To add to the celebrations, two of the entries received a Daily Deviation (DD) and one emoticonist ( @MerelyCubed) managed to complete the "30 in 30" challenge - a truly impressive achievement. Without further ado, here are a selection of the entries from this year: @MerelyCubed 30 entries @Phlum 6 entries @BlissfullySarcastic 7 entries @nillemotes 11 entries Emotes submitted privately
Please Sir, can I have some more?!
Within the blink of an eye it seems to be August, and I'm really starting to wonder where the year has gone. I can't say I have a load of stuff to update this journal with, but I fancied an update nonetheless. I'm now well settled in the new house. In April/May I managed to finish unpacking most of my belongings, so it started to feel like it was my home rather than just a place I was living. In June I had the boiler replaced, which was an experience and a half, but I'm glad that's all done. I have the windows to replace and some work to do in the loft, but I'm just taking some time out to enjoy the house as it is before it descends into chaos again. I was also pleasantly surprised when I found a new hedgehog that visits the house. I was a little sad that I left the others behind when I moved, but I discovered him outside the shed one night and have been looking after him ever since. He's been given the nickname Oliver after one late night session where he threw his food bowls
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Emotes make the world a better place. 
Without them, the internet would be a sad, sad state of vocabulary.
If others disagree, I say, Fork'em.
Without them, the internet would be a sad, sad state of vocabulary.
If others disagree, I say, Fork'em.