My emoticons
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Topic: My emoticons
Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Subject: My emoticons
Date Posted: 20 March 2008 at 7:13pm
I need an opinion on which angels and demons I should use and how do you think theyre coming out? Any suggestions on what other ones I need to make? -------------  got game?
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Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 8:16am
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The horns look like cats ears, I'd make them more bent. And the Halo just looks like a line, I'd tilt the back end down a bit and have it sitting on the head a little bit. Does this make sense? |
Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 8:29am
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Also, for the devil ones maybe you should make the emote itself red to match with the horns.
-------------  "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso 
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Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 10:14am
I understand what you mean. One of the guys at my message board said the devil looked a bit like wolverine... so
I might make a red one later on along with a "mr green" smile thank you guys ------------- got game?
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Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 11:12am
Why thank you. 
------------- "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso
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Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 4:32pm
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I would shift towards oranges/reds in the darks. Straight yellow ramps tend to look very sickly and almost green. Also, for bright, playful smilies, you should have the saturated midtones be more dominant. Use less pixel real estate for desaturated highlights. LAstly, they look a bit bandy/pillowshaded to me :o Not a huge big deal for little smilies I guess, but maybe you could use a more definite light source? ------------- |
Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 22 March 2008 at 9:25am
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how are you to shade an emoticon? and they're not yellow they use the pallet my 5150 album and Vitruvian smile uses.
heres a red version of the devil and a green pallet and an emoticon from "Say Anything" :p  ------------- got game?
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Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 22 March 2008 at 10:33am
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Originally posted by Psychotic_Carp
how are you to shade an emoticon? Well, like a sphere? I acknowledge that yours are currently sphere-shaded, but they are done so in a way that is generally considered uninteresting. It's pillowshading. Admittedly spheres are one of the few things that you can pillowshade and sort of get away with, but why would you? It's just not very interesting to look at, and with such a small canvas it's nearly impossible to avoid heavy banding. Originally posted by Psychotic_Carp
and they're not yellow they use the pallet my 5150 album and Vitruvian smile uses. Your 5150 album is predominantly yellow, as are these smilies. Regardless, it doesn't change the fact that straight ramps of any hue are almost never a good idea. Why not alter the palette for the better? ------------- |
Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 22 March 2008 at 10:26pm
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if you dither something that small and then add smiley stuff to it the dithering is just lost and the palette is supposed to be that of old parchment type ------------- got game?
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Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 22 March 2008 at 11:00pm
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Huh? I never suggested dithering--I didn't even utter the word. I would never dither anything so small.
And why would you use an old parchment palette on a set of colorful playful smilies? I'm not trying to force you to change it or anything; I'm genuinely curious why you're taking that approach. Here's a palette edit I did to explain what I've been talking about: -->  ------------- |
Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 22 March 2008 at 11:20pm
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Its two in the morning im kinda out of it
Your pallet just doesn't seem to blend like mine, I kept mine gradual because I like the smoothness of it. Notice how the last shade before black has gone too far into the red n yours, its not aa properly there, at least to me. Check out the green and red ones that I did, I didnt just select the color and change it on a slider, i generated a pallet a long time ago that started with a color and gradually went to black or white and i have kept with that palette because to me it was prefect with going out to the black lines. Not sure if this makes sense, if it weren't for Firefox it would be filled with misspellings, im going to bed. ------------- got game?
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