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So i herd u liek emotes?? - Volume 124Welcome to the latest volume of so i herd u liek emotes??. This is the 124th volume in a fortnightly series aimed towards promoting emote and emoticonists from the dA community. It features emotes posted within the past few weeks from both well known and new emoticonists, as well as featuring emote projects, contests and news.
Featured Emoticons
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Master of Elements by ~KinnisonArc is a really impressive emote scene. Each of the elements gives an intense sense of power and the image in the middle just helps the elements flow together. The emotes in each corner fit really well and the expressions help give a sense of individuality to each Master.
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The bright colours of the lava in Hanging on for Dear Life by ~PokeartKid really grabbed my attention. The details included in the whole background really help bring the scene to life and give a realistic feel to the situation.
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So i herd u liek emotes?? - Volume 125Welcome to the latest volume of so i herd u liek emotes??. This is the 125th volume in a fortnightly series aimed towards promoting emote and emoticonists from the dA community. It features emotes posted within the past few weeks from both well known and new emoticonists, as well as featuring emote projects, contests and news.
Featured Emoticons
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Hanging on by =Indae is an amusing little scene and a fun variation on a contest theme. I love the details packed into the background especially the awesome water effect. Small additions like the eyepatch and emoticon expressions just add to the whole feel of the scene giving a great atmosphere.
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It’s hard to take your eyes of Boing by ~horber95. The flawless shading, adorable expression and smooth animation just make the emoticon flow and easily capture your attention.
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Being terrified of spiders myself i absolutely love Man

Amazing Emoticonists & More - Volume 37

Welcome to Amazing Emoticonists...and More. This is the 37th installment of the twice-monthly feature dedicated to showcasing the emoticon creations of up-and-coming and veteran emoticonists. Be sure to check out the rest of their galleries for other amazing works. This article also features projects, contests, groups, and more, in the hopes of exposing them to new deviants and those not familiar with the emoticon community.
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Lesser-Known Emoticonists

:iconpsychocookee: =tyberii

Such a sweet and sad emote. I think we can all relate to this feeling.

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:iconseapuppy: ~seapuppy

Such a cute and simple emote.

Emotiviews 5 - Interview with =phlum

The interviewee of this edition is:
:iconcheerplz: :iconphlum: =Phlum    :iconphlum:  :iconcheerplz:

opening words of the Artist:
"  :iconwavesplz: Hello! Or good mornafterning, if you prefer ¬3¬
that plz should totally replace .
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1. Programs of choice for emoting?
I use The Gimp, because I'm cheap. :eyes: And also because I don't really get along with Photoshop.
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Amazing Emoticonists & More - Volume 36

Welcome to Unknown Amazing Emoticonists...and More. This is the 36th installment of the mostly-weekly feature dedicated to showcasing the emoticon creations of up-and-coming and veteran emoticonists. Be sure to check out the rest of their galleries for other amazing works. This article also features projects, contests, groups, and more, in the hopes of exposing them to new deviants and those not familiar with the emoticon community.
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Lesser-Known Emoticonists

:iconI-is-smart: =I-is-smart

A sweet way to show the connection between friends. Cute expression.

~ :bulletgreen:
:iconl-rM: ~l-rM

The whole scene and the faces on the emotes make me LOL. Funny.
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Emoticon Contest: past vs. present vs. futureI am proud to present you my first "official" Emoticon Contest.

At first I want to tell you something about the theme:
As you have read the theme is past vs. present vs. future, this means your entry has to include something from the past, present and future. The time isn't set, this means that the past could be just 1 day ago or 100 years ago it's the same with the future. For example: you could display how the emotes have lived in the past how they are living now and how they could live in the future.
Be creative and surprise me with your imagination

The Contest is divided into 2 Categories:
The first Category will be for deviants who would like to work alone. And the second category is for deviants who want to work with somebody (a collaboration category ;D) 2 deviants can work together.
But you could also enter in both categories!

Below you can find the rules of each category and what you have to keep in mind.
Deadline:
start d

Emoticon DD Summary July 2011

Are Emoticons Art?A reprint of my "Are Emoticons Art?" for beta-testers who can't view it...
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I recently heard all of the buzz about the art website, Shadowness. Of course, I was curious and went over to take a peek. Problem is, while I was welcomed, I learned my art is not. I'm an emoticonist. At Shadowness, emotes and general pixel-art are not a supported artform. In fact, a good deal of art sites do not feel emoticons are gallery worthy.
Thank goodness for deviantART.
That said, the eternal question remains. "Are emoticons art? " Even as an emoticonist, I still grapple with this question. So, to see what others in the community thought, I posed the question in a recent poll and wanted some feedback. I'd heard all of the negative things about them in the past, so I wanted to see what positive views were out there. Some of the words were surprising. Here's a number of them:

~LittleAlienGirl - "I think emoticons are art in the same way any other art form is; as

Random Emote Awesomeness - Volume 11Volume 11 in the series that showcases a random variety of emoticons: some old, some new, some by seasoned emoticonists, some by new artists. There's no real rhyme or reason as to which pieces are featured. Sometimes I pick a theme such as animals, other times it's just whatever strikes my fancy. Below are the current group of awesome emotes hand-picked by me (and sometimes a guest). Much like the title, this News feature will publish a bit randomly. Maybe weekly, maybe every third Thursday, maybe three days in a row--but hopefully at least once a month.
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Random Emote Awesomeness - Big Emotes

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CodePLZ - the emoticonist version#hq has just announced some more information on the whole 'codePLZ' concept and tbh, i had to read through the journal about 3 times to understand the termonology used. Therefore i decided to write up an 'emoticonists' version. This is my interpretation of what has been written. Let me know if any of the details are wrong.
What is codePLZ?
CodePLZ is a new feature that is currently in production to replace the current Emoticon Legend to allow more emotes to be used anywhere around the site. This means we wont be confined to only emotes on the 'official list' but allowed to pick and choose any 'chat friendly' emoticon available.
This feature would be implemented in the place of the long awaited 'emote dictionary' you may have heard about.
How will it work?
When you submit a chat friendly emote to your gallery, it will be given a unique code (similar to a thumbcode - possibly :emote2523422: ) which could be used in areas of the site where thumbcodes are not normally allowed (ie regul

Emoticon Legend Style UpdatesMorning All

As it says on the tin, there's been a style update to the emoticon legend

If you can remember, when you used to click on the "Emoticons" button in comment, notes or dAmn, you used to get a popup box with a colour scheme from dA v1... it was all very... 1999

Well it has now had a facelift

We've gone out with the popup and in with a shiny new modal

And I'm glad to say that the colour scheme has also been updated to make it look a little more like it belongs in 2011

Hopefully it should be working everywhere now (except the dAmn shoutbox is still a popup)
If you have any problems let me know

I've been working a couple of emote related things recently, so hopefully you'll get to see the results of some of these other projects some time in the near future

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Emotizine - Volume 1:iconemotizine:
The twice-monthly article covering news, contests, and other happenings all around the deviantART Emoticon Community. We will also feature interviews, art features, and more. This zine is a collective work of many emoticonists. You can see our full staff list, as well as find additional information on emoticon community events by visiting the official zine group #Emotizine.
Note this is our first zine article, so things are still a bit experimental and we may have missed an item or two. Don't be alarmed. Be sure to follow us over the next few weeks as we broaden our features and get things settled.
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Editors: `SparklyDest and `Synfull
Contests

EMTC Snow by `SparklyDest
Deadline: December 29th

Emotiviews 4 - Interview with `SanguineEpitaph

The interviewee of this edition is:
:iconcheerplz: :iconSanguineEpitaph: `SanguineEpitaph    :iconSanguineEpitaph:  :iconcheerplz:

opening words of the Artist:
   " Thank you for interviewing me!
I'll be as interesting as possible. :iconlaeyesplz:
This goes out to Mother Umbra, ILYSM u sooo kawaii ne~~ . <3  "

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1. Programs of choice for emoting?

ointr: I use Photoshop CS5 for both static and anim

Random Emote Awesomeness - Volume 12Volume 12 in the series that showcases a random variety of emoticons: some old, some new, some by seasoned emoticonists, some by new artists. There's no real rhyme or reason as to which pieces are featured. Sometimes I pick a theme such as animals, other times it's just whatever strikes my fancy. Below are the current group of awesome emotes hand-picked by me (and sometimes a guest). Much like the title, this News feature will publish a bit randomly. Maybe weekly, maybe every third Thursday, maybe three days in a row--but hopefully at least once a month.
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Random Emote Awesomeness

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Random Emote Awesomeness - Volume 10Volume 10 in the series that showcases a random variety of emoticons: some old, some new, some by seasoned emoticonists, some by new artists. There's no real rhyme or reason as to which pieces are featured. Sometimes I pick a theme such as animals, other times it's just whatever strikes my fancy. Below are the current group of awesome emotes hand-picked by me (and sometimes a guest). Much like the title, this News feature will publish a bit randomly. Maybe weekly, maybe every third Thursday, maybe three days in a row--but hopefully at least once a month.
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Random Emote Awesomeness - It's Christmas in July!

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Emote Bookmark Project (20)

Thu Sep 8, 2011, 3:05 PM

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A couple of days i uploaded a Emote Bookmark of my OC Syn and the response to it has been far more positive than i ever thought it would be. i've had numerous people mention how they have or want to make one themselves and people have really taken up the idea. So after talking to a few fellow emoticonists, i decided i'd make a project out of these bookmarks.

How do i make one?

Its actually really simple and straight forward to make one yourself. There are a couple of different ways to make the base of the bookmark, each of which are easy to complete even for the less paper-craft experienced deviant. The tutorial can be found on this page, so check it out:

Tutorial link

How do i enter the project?

Simply send me a link in a note or comment (preferably on this journal) and i'll add the journal. All of the entries will be displayed here though i may make them into a big canvas at a later date (depending on time and how things go).

Rules

Just to make things a little smoother here are a few short rules:

Only corner style bookmarks will be accepted