Let's Make Smilies!

[Valka]

"Wave," "chess," "clap," and "dunno" work fine. The bike still needs work, though.

I'm curious as to what you think of the spud on a scooter I've got in my sig. That was created on smileygenerator.us several years ago. That site has many thousands of various smileys, and I know of another that has similar ones, but in a different style. That site's mostly in Russian, but the smileys are quite good.

[Buster's Uncle]

I dunno.  The bike is sisko's.  Yours is okay, but not close at all to the house style.

Maybe after I've worked through all the faint halo, I'll take another run at the bike.

[Geo]

Hey Geo - you were around 'poly forever, so maybe you'll enjoy this.  Aeson has taken over ownership, y'know, and Ming's back in charge of the staff now.  Today, I had an inspiration, and offered Aeson the attached, with the suggestion of "Who's the B*stard NOW?" for hovertext.  [snickers]

Never had Ming's wrath descend on me, so I don't 'officially' know what you're talking about.

[Buster's Uncle]

[Buster's Uncle]

48 frame smiles are a pain.

[Buster's Uncle]

All much improved, I think.  Now to take another run at that messy bike...

[Buster's Uncle]

Here.  That thing was profoundly messed up - looks like a bad optimization.  This oughta work.

I do not understand why people make such sloppy smilies.

[Buster's Uncle]

-Also, for your amusement, a Mormon smilie I made long ago, based on same, I think.

[Valka]

I dunno.  The bike is sisko's.  Yours is okay, but not close at all to the house style.

Maybe after I've worked through all the faint halo, I'll take another run at the bike.

I was just curious as to whether you like it as itself. It started out as a basic potato-shaped smiley, and over time some of us on that forum started anthropomorphizing it. Waaay back, Spud on a scooter was my avatar at CivFanatics.

[Buster's Uncle]

It's nicely rendered.  It might work better if the scooter was brighter color, to set off the spud in its dull 'tateriness.

[Valka]

Spud may have a dull color, but he's not a dull-minded character. Sure, he enjoys being a couch potato at times, but he's got his adventurous side. 

[Buster's Uncle]

The original party root?

[Valka]

Actually, I was thinking of the time he crashed the Dragonloft forum's Christmas party a few years ago. I'd thought of adding Spud to the list of characters I write in this co-operative forum RPG, but he didn't mesh in very well with the other webcomic characters.

[JarlWolf]

Actually, I was thinking of the time he crashed the Dragonloft forum's Christmas party a few years ago. I'd thought of adding Spud to the list of characters I write in this co-operative forum RPG, but he didn't mesh in very well with the other webcomic characters.

What were the other webcomic characters?

[Valka]

The Fuzzy Knights - Mossfoot, Violet, Ben, and Target.

It's a webcomic done by a friend of mine, Noah Chinn, who currently lives in British Columbia in Canada. He based it on the Knights of the Dinner Table comic book/game magazine, about a group of people who sit around a dinner table and play Dungeons & Dragons-type games.

Fuzzy Knights started out in a similar way, except the characters are stuffed animals who sit on a dinner table and play D&D-type games (as well as get into other adventures with other stuffed animals). Mossfoot is a green teddy bear, Violet is a purple teddy bear, Ben is a Beatrix Potter-type bunny rabbit, and Target is a black & white tuxedo cat.

As you can see from the attached picture, Mossfoot is the Dungeon Master, and Target, Violet, and Ben are the players. The props are scaled down to fit with these stuffed toys, which are approximately 6-8" tall, depending if they're sitting or standing.