For Halloween and general gothiness :P I wanted to make ones like my alien emotes where they actually do express emotion, but I'm having some difficulty. Maybe it's a problem with my original template?



what do you guys think?

the problem with skull emotions is erm.. the lack of muscles.... and unchangeing ness that skulls have... they just grin all the time, i would sugest makeing pumpkin emoticons for halloween...

but if you must have skulls it will be hard, and you might need to make more room for the mouth area somehow

Oh weird! I was thinking of doing this the other day...

The expressions are hard to make out. I <3 skulls.

The positioning of the eye sockets seems really high on the skull, and I find that they just lack the generall sharp definition that I expect from bare bones - the shape you have is more consistent with a face that has muscles and skin. Your skull is very egg shaped, but you really only get full cheeks with skin & muscle. I think to get the skull look you need to really define those cheek bones, and the area where the lower jaw attaches.

I think of the four emotes you posted, the third one down looks most skull-like, because of the extension of the line between the jaws... the fourth one has an almost alien-head look too it. I don't really find that any of them are very expressive though - I'd have to see them all together to even begin to guess at which emotions they were supposed to portray, and even then it'd only be a guess.

I rather like Larwick's idea, because facial expressions really are functions of muscle and skin, and distorting the bone structure to create expressions just takes away from the skull look.