Emoticon Contest #2 - Creeps!

[Tleno]

Those are awesome! man I think I stand no chance with such competitors... so if anyone wants a siege golem, take it.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

@hunalexn - Those are pretty darn sweet, try publishing it as a .gif straight from flash? Rather than converting the .swf?

 

[hunalexnl]

@hunalexn - Those are pretty darn sweet, try publishing it as a .gif straight from flash? Rather than converting the .swf?

Yup, that's what I did, and that's the reason for their crappy quality (they were made with After Effects, maybe that program isn't that good with GIFs)... Although, looking at them, it's not that bad either... Might leave them as they are. Thanks!

 

[Kuhneghetz]

UPDATE:
- Changed the FFFFUUUU emote a bit.
- Added a DAT ASS emote.
- Added a cranky/frown/sourpuss emote.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Holy fuck, i'm out.

 

[AlienAtSystem]

Ok, its probably useless to enter this contest with all these epic WIPs posted already. Someone wanted Murloc Emoticons, so i tried and ended up with these. I'll animate some of them lateron and add some more (but not a because fishes have no tongue )

 

[M0rbid]

I would change the colour of the to a light blue or yellow blue instead!

 

[Herian]

Good luck to everyone!
Sounds really like a great contest.
@Dan Van Ohllus : Erm... Lol. One word : Cute.
@AlienAtSystem : As M0rbid said, change their color to light blue / teal / dark blue(Mur'Guls) / bright green (plague murlocs)

 

[AlienAtSystem]

Hm, i now changed the color to the one of murloc.mdx, meaning yellow with red stripes. see here:

 

[Herian]

Nice one!

 

[Kuhneghetz]

These will be my contest entries until further notice.

These ogre emotes are (from left to right):
- Hurr hurr / Troll face.
- FFFFFUUUUU / RAGE.
- DAT ASS.
- Frown / Grumpy / Cranky.
- Haosis smile.
- "I see what you did there".
- Love / <3.
- Totally Kawaii!!!

 

[FadedLeveling]

What the hell? My entry isnt in the list

 

[Cweener]

What the hell? My entry isnt in the list

So chill out and ask the contest host why. Mkay?

 

[Just_Spectating]

i might join too

i got Draenei


W.I.P.

normal face

it'll be hard to make emotions, but i'm stickin with it

 

[L_Lawliet]

ok, ok.
looks like i have the time to do it:

EDIT:
W.I.P.:

Changes:
Resized Helmet & Glow Eyes

Skeleton Orc

 

[Cweener]

Just_Spectating
You probably picked the hardest race to define faces on tbh...
Maybe hydra would be worse...who knows.
At any rate, it looks fairly good for a WiP and you're good enough at that sort of thing to know what it needs, so I won't patronize you.
I'd really like to know though, will you be animating it?

L_Lawliet
That looks big.!
Looks very nice though, although the helm looks very disproportionate
I don't think it's such a bad thing though. He looks happy with it

 

[Deolrin]

Really nice L_Lawliet, but... Perhaps make the hat, you know, bigger?

DVO, just awesome!

JS, the coloration is a bit off imo, but still nice. Draenei are usually more dark-ish gray\purple.

 

[Pyritie]

View attachment 85568
- Totally Kawaii!!!

NEEDS BIGGER EYES DESUl

 

[Squidle]

Updated the main post, every participant is on it with his theme.

 

[AlienAtSystem]

@DvO: The DAT ASS sun glasses look more like an eye patch, Maybe you should rework the temples a bit.

€: Ok, this is my entry until updated:
(I'll delete the green ones in a moment)

 

[SuperJustin]

I think i may enter

 

[Gamecrafter_DK]

Nice contest :3 I think i'll join if i can find a creep type to base it on...

 

[Squidle]

Added links to people's final submissions... but I kinda fucked up the otable now..

 

[M0rbid]

I fear I'll have to skip this, but let's see maybe I can catch some time for this.

I guess I'm back from vacation a few days before deadline!


EDIT: Meh, nvm, I just rushed something and have a result better than nothing so far. Here's a WiP :

 

[Jaret]

Wow, an emoticon contest! Well, I'll enter it, I'm really into animating 2d stuff and so (drawing sprites). Here's an wip (This will be an Ice revenant)

edit 2: Completed the animated gif, here it is:

edit 3: another icon completed (This time, it's the Doomguard giggling):

@hunalexnl: Wow... These look really awesome!

edit 4: another icon completed (this time, it's the Maiden of Pain looking cute (Or sumthing like that )):

 

[hunalexnl]

@Jaret: Thanks a lot! Small tip for your Maiden of Pain: it might be better if she opened her eye right after the heart 'comes out'... In my opinion, it's closed for too long. ;o

 

[Deolrin]

Would be nice if the Revenant's helm was bigger and the blue glow was much bigger.

 

[Jaret]

@Jaret: Thanks a lot! Small tip for your Maiden of Pain: it might be better if she opened her eye right after the heart 'comes out'... In my opinion, it's closed for too long. ;o

Would be nice if the Revenant's helm was bigger and the blue glow was much bigger.

@hunalexnl Thanks for the tip, but right now I can't do it. Maybe later.

@Debode I would love to do that, but it would be too big, and would extent the limit (40x40). I could scale down the horn-like thing on the top of his helm, and the "ears" like things to the sides, but it wouldn't look good if I did that. And with the eyes, I didn't want it to stand out. You should look closely so you could see the glow.

 

[The World Is Flat]

40x40 is the minimum, or so i thought.

 

[M0rbid]

No the maximum. Otherwise it woul not make that much sense as an emoticon, huh?

Any tipps on my new one?

 

[Jaret]

40x40 is the minimum, or so i thought.

It is the maximum. I'm going through hard times (My warcraft 3 is deleted from my pc () And I can't find my cd, so...)... I gotta work then using my brain and the things i remember. As far as I remember, I've done these 3 exactly as they look in Warcraft 3.

No the maximum. Otherwise it woul not make that much sense as an emoticon, huh?

Any tipps on my new one?

Hmm... It's cool as it looks right now, maybe add more white below the teeth (It's transparent now, I think it's better if he was smiling (Showing his teeth)). Other than that, it's awesome.

Another wip:
I really hate it when I draw something BIG and it looks EPIC, then convert it to GIF, and what I get... S***.
Here's what I mean:

See the difference? The left one is WAY better than the right one. Left is PNG, right is GIF.

Edit 2: Completed the Wendigo, and btw, i've redone the maiden. Hope you like it now, hunalexnl.

Edit 3: I slowed down the animation speed of the maiden.

Edit 4: another icon. See it for yourself:

 

[Just_Spectating]

yeah i'll be animating

 

[hunalexnl]

@Jaret: Yup, your maiden is a lot better now imo. And about the Wendigo: for me, the difference was quite hard to notice, so don't worry. ;D

 

[Jaret]

@Jaret: Yup, your maiden is a lot better now imo. And about the Wendigo: for me, the difference was quite hard to notice, so don't worry. ;D

What'cha think about the faceless one - deathbringer? I think it's the coolest one of mine... it's competing with the wendigo.

 

[hunalexnl]

What'cha think about the faceless one - deathbringer? I think it's the coolest one of mine... it's competing with the wendigo.

No idea how to call that stuff that comes out from where its mouth should be, but the ones at both sides have a weird edge... As if they were cut off because of the 40x40 limits... Maybe you should make them smaller, but round.
It's awesome how much detail each of your emoticons has... I didn't really care about that part when I was making mine - I was focusing on the animation.

 

[Pyritie]

Another wip:
I really hate it when I draw something BIG and it looks EPIC, then convert it to GIF, and what I get... S***.
Here's what I mean:

See the difference? The left one is WAY better than the right one. Left is PNG, right is GIF.

You're exporting it wrong

 

[Jaret]

You're exporting it wrong

So... how to export it right then? (I was using paint (first for drawing the whole thing, then saving it as a GIF file, and then making the background transparent with Photoshop)

No idea how to call that stuff that comes out from where its mouth should be, but the ones at both sides have a weird edge... As if they were cut off because of the 40x40 limits... Maybe you should make them smaller, but round.
It's awesome how much detail each of your emoticons has... I didn't really care about that part when I was making mine - I was focusing on the animation.

I suppose the thing coming out of his mouth (BTW the faceless one doesn't have a mouth nor a nose (From where the name comes)) are something like tentacles. And about the "sharp" tentacles... I'll see what I can do. And about the textures and details... As I stated in my first post here, I'm into spriting and animating 2d stuff... When doing sprites, me... no... everyone is focused in doing the thing as HQ as possible. You save them in PNG format, and there you go... You're ready for a sprite. I'm used to do everything in paint (every motion... done in paint ), and it definitely looks cool.

 

[Just_Spectating]

W.I.P. 2


1normal
2Headshake

Updated: made it slower

 

[Jaret]

W.I.P. 2

View attachment 85688View attachment 85691
1normal
2Headshake

Updated: made it slower

Cool looking, you could slow the head shaking a little bit more (I see you slowed it down), it's still too fast. More shadings if possible. I kinda love your dreanei

 

[M0rbid]

Agreed slowing it abit more would be nice. watching it for to long creates headache otherwise. but looks awesome!

 

[Just_Spectating]

hows this?

 

[Jaret]

View attachment 85693
hows this?

That is better. I like it.

 

[Pyritie]

So... how to export it right then? (I was using paint (first for drawing the whole thing, then saving it as a GIF file, and then making the background transparent with Photoshop)

Export it as a png from paint, then open in photoshop, go to file > save for web, then on the top right corner of the box that pops up click "GIF-128" or whatever. You can bump the colors up to 256 if you want (the maximum that gifs support)

 

[Jaret]

Export it as a png from paint, then open in photoshop, go to file > save for web, then on the top right corner of the box that pops up click "GIF-128" or whatever. You can bump the colors up to 256 if you want (the maximum that gifs support)

Lol, thanks. How's it now:

 

[hunalexnl]

Added 3 more to my original post...

 

[Deolrin]

Imo, it needs more shading on the green part(coif... thing).

 

[Jaret]

Lol, I'm just making this one post for tracking my progress (All my emoticons will be linked to this post:

 

[dead-man-walking]

Lol, I'm just making this one post for tracking my progress (All my emoticons will be linked to this post:

Somebody actually could make an awesome Revenant Emote! :O
Doom Guard looks silly and kinda different than the other. Don't really like it. ):
No comment on Succubus (SMEXEH).
That Faceless is probably the most awesome that you made. Respect!
Wendigo, well, he's a Wendigo. No comment.

 

[Deolrin]

I like the Wendigo, the Revenant and the Faceless One, but Doom Guard and Maiden of Pain don't looks so great imo.
Why don't you stick to 'northrend creeps' or something? :O

 

[Jaret]

I like the Wendigo, the Revenant and the Faceless One, but Doom Guard and Maiden of Pain don't looks so great imo.
Why don't you stick to 'northrend creeps' or something? :O

Well... Kinda... I should do that. I was thinking about deleting the doomguard and the maiden anyway

edit 1: One question: May I do a skeleton? I see Midnighters said he'll do the skeletons, but anyway I'm asking, because I've got a perfect idea for him laughing, and I hope he can replace the doomguard. Plz hurry up with the answer. I'm already working on it.