“We can’t express ourselves, pap!”
“The emoticons is shit, pap!”
“If you don’t fucking sort these emoticons out right now, I’m deflating your tyres, pap”
I’ve heard or invented it all. So I am sorting it.
Have a look at these. First question is do you like them?
Pap is avoiding the questions IMO. He wants us to sign up for these emoticons, but he refuses to say what they really look like. My spider-sense is tingling + I am sensing Conspiracy. Pls pls no-one sign up for this till Pap gives us Full Disclosure!
I like them a lot, not sure (shameful I know) how well svg does across browsers, but definite candidates (and they can be converted to PNG if need be).
Is there a racist winky face? I want one so that when I make a jokey racist comment I can highlight to the audience that I’m not really racist. Or as the chinaman said “I don’t wanna appear lacist”
A good compromise might involve something like this plus a mix of your special sauce. We can get something up and running quickly. You can add as desired.
I can understand sir’s desire for complete creative control though. I await the results with a due sense of impending legal dread.
I think the ones Bletch posted are also rubbish. The best expressions are the ones in the middle, but why are they on a condom?
I have way more faith in Bearsy’s creative genius.
I read a fantastic book, itself a comic, which deconstructed how comic books are made. One of the concepts it touched on is universality, essentially the idea that the more abstract something is, the more people identify with it. Take a highly detailed photo of a redneck, and the chances are that only fellow rednecks will identify it. An abstract smiley face? Everyone is onboard, including the rednecks.
Now I’ve seen Bear’s previous work, and yep, some of it hits that universality mark. I believe his pic of Iain Dowie is under consideration from the United Nations as the international symbol for confusion. He must build on that great work to produce emoticons that people feel comfortable clicking, and not say, 78 stylised nutsacks arranged in different configurations.
SVG is the technique I used to do the word (bore) cloud stuff, and the research I did said it works pretty much across all mainstream browsers after IE8.
My money is on Bear though - assuming he can commit to doing them all (including :stroke-victim:).
