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Title: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: VinceBot on 18 December, 2009, 05:01:33 PM
You might have noticed I've fixed the smilies - we now have a consolidated smiley set (the phpBB3 style, as voted in by you guys (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,26844.0.html)).

What this means is we can now add some custom smileys to the forum. Seeing as this is the official 2000AD forums, I don't want to just add any garbage willy-nilly, so there are a few rules.

what rules?

Can't be offensive.
Must not look hideous.
Must be of the same style as the current smilies.

Same style?

Yeah. Basically we want the smilies to all look similar and not a mish-mash of different head styles.
To help you guys out with that I've made a .psd file (zipped attachment (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=27147.0;attach=1019)) with a bunch of different facial features and a blank face for you to work from. I've included my attempt at a Judge Dredd smiley so you get an idea of what to do.

(http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=27147.0;attach=1020;image)

Once you've made the smiley pixel-by-pixel, resize the image by 50% (from 40x40 to 20x20 pixels) and you'll have a nicely aliased smiley, with soft edges.
Save this as a .gif and attach it to your post.

Go hog wild!
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Matt Timson on 18 December, 2009, 09:45:04 PM
Cool!  Thanks very much.
:D
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 18 December, 2009, 09:46:27 PM
Quote from: Matt Timson on 18 December, 2009, 09:45:04 PM
Cool!  Thanks very much.


And what the fuck do you mean by that, Timson? Eh?

Cheers!

Jim
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 19 December, 2009, 12:24:19 AM
(Watchmen/Alan Moore themed Smiley)

(http://home.contextshift.co.uk/~adrianbamforth/Watchmen%20Smiley.gif)
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Matt Timson on 19 December, 2009, 02:57:10 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 18 December, 2009, 09:46:27 PM
Quote from: Matt Timson on 18 December, 2009, 09:45:04 PM
Cool!  Thanks very much.


And what the fuck do you mean by that, Timson? Eh?

Cheers!

Jim

Hmmm.... Cool?  And thanks very much?  :|
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 20 December, 2009, 01:50:04 PM
Will it upload?Ooops done this a bit wrong. It's a sort of Manga icon hence the oversized eyes.

Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Dog Deever on 20 December, 2009, 03:05:04 PM
Doesn't look too clear at 20x20, I don't think-
It's supposed tae be Middenface, but there might be too many lumps!
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Dog Deever on 20 December, 2009, 03:23:51 PM
and a Tharg as well (building on the 'cool' smilie)
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 20 December, 2009, 05:00:48 PM
Superb Dog Deever!
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: mistersaxon on 20 December, 2009, 07:34:22 PM
Dog Deeve3r - that's just a startled green person upside down isn't it? :)
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: VinceBot on 21 December, 2009, 08:33:24 PM
That's a really nice one Dog Deever, glad people are working on stuff.
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Dog Deever on 11 January, 2010, 01:00:29 AM
Thought I'd take a back seat and let others have a go for a bit. Seeing as no-one else has posted one just yet, I thought I'd have another shottie as I had an idea. This one is based on the winkie smilie- it's Nikolai Dante...
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Dog Deever on 11 January, 2010, 01:03:08 AM
Bollocks!
I forgot tae shrink the bastard!
Not sure if it's clear enough at half size...
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Mr Eight on 15 January, 2010, 10:44:54 PM
Abelard Snazz smiley
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Kev Levell on 16 January, 2010, 09:33:07 AM
Those two are great.
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: nev on 25 February, 2010, 07:48:46 PM
I thought I'd give this a try. It is Ampney Crucis.
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Mike Gloady on 02 March, 2010, 08:02:14 PM
I like that, Nev.  Most amusing.
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: VinceBot on 08 March, 2010, 12:12:36 AM
I'll have to add some of these soon. Pretty awesome so far.
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Dog Deever on 08 March, 2010, 12:59:23 AM
Again, it looked ok at 40 x 40, but maybe a bit ambitious at 20 x 20...

for when somebody pisses you off, or when things are going against you...
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Dog Deever on 08 March, 2010, 01:34:25 AM
Is this getting too far from the look of the basic smilies?
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Dog Deever on 08 March, 2010, 01:35:28 AM
One of a set?
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Dandontdare on 08 March, 2010, 02:41:55 PM
gaze into the emoticon of fear!
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Dog Deever on 08 March, 2010, 06:19:07 PM
Hmmm- forgot his helmet wings!. I'll try to add them.
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Proudhuff on 08 March, 2010, 06:29:01 PM
shouldn't all these be above the typey-in box??
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Kerrin on 08 March, 2010, 06:59:44 PM
Ha-ha, they're ace Bruce. Must have a crack at this.

Like that Ampney Nev.
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: puggdogg on 10 June, 2010, 02:26:32 PM
Here's some Tharg smilies I made using Vincebot's template
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Dandontdare on 10 June, 2010, 02:35:35 PM
those are very good, real emotion in those faces - but has he had his Rosette of Sirius amputated?
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: puggdogg on 10 June, 2010, 02:55:57 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 10 June, 2010, 02:35:35 PM
those are very good, real emotion in those faces - but has he had his Rosette of Sirius amputated?

(http://www.2000adonline.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=27147.0;attach=1866;image) You're right. That was the first time I've drawn Tharg.
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: puggdogg on 11 June, 2010, 04:17:23 AM
Just made some more smilies.
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: willthemightyW on 13 June, 2010, 01:27:22 PM
I'm a complete and utter idiot when it comes to these things, I save them, then how do I use them in a post?
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: nev on 13 June, 2010, 01:38:17 PM
Attach file.

Click additional options below the bit you normally write in when post in.

Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: willthemightyW on 16 June, 2010, 05:31:18 PM
cheers
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: willthemightyW on 16 June, 2010, 05:33:05 PM
oh, I think I did something wrong.  :(
When I said I'd saved them, I meant I'd saved the ones people put up, how do I use those?
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty) on 16 June, 2010, 06:20:21 PM
If it helps anyway I found this linky and they do work. It provides an ICO file extension for use with Photoshop (mac and pc) and paintshopro

http://www.telegraphics.com.au/svn/icoformat/trunk/dist/README.html (http://www.telegraphics.com.au/svn/icoformat/trunk/dist/README.html)

Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: clavell on 12 July, 2011, 05:41:47 PM
These are excellent.

I like the Tharg. And the Krool.

I love the Abelard Snazz !

- C
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Adrian Bamforth on 13 July, 2011, 09:43:48 PM
Oh, I thought they were going to appear with all the other smileys for anyone to use without downloading them first. Is that hard to make happen?
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 09 January, 2012, 01:40:16 PM
Here goes nothing...I hope this works...'There's a man at the door, dear, he's come about the reaping'.
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 09 January, 2012, 01:53:17 PM
That man again, he wot came about the reaping...now with with receding gums!
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 09 January, 2012, 01:55:16 PM
...bigger teeth this time.
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: QUELLER on 15 October, 2012, 10:05:27 AM
Hi. My smile icon:
(http://s004.radikal.ru/i206/1210/a5/a69bf38d0496.png)
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: GrudgeJohnDeed on 16 July, 2013, 11:15:30 PM
this seems like a lot of fun, right up my street

i made a human dredd head and a yellow smiley-man one.

(http://i.imgur.com/UyYHWRQ.gif)


(http://i.imgur.com/DzyQ8cD.gif)
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: GrudgeJohnDeed on 17 July, 2013, 02:42:29 AM
couldnt modify my last post for some reason!

did a johnny alpha one

(http://i.imgur.com/YlJPYnk.gif)
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: GrudgeJohnDeed on 17 July, 2013, 06:16:51 PM
did some more and touched up the others, sorry about the triple post but i cant edit.

(http://i.imgur.com/ELI4fXR.gif)
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: johnnystress on 18 July, 2013, 04:18:52 PM
these are great!
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: GrudgeJohnDeed on 18 July, 2013, 11:32:02 PM
cheers mate! theyre fun to make, any requests? though some are more suited than others, i couldnt think how to make hammerstein as a cute smiley, and his head doesnt fit the square dimensions very well so i added the helmet thing he used to have. I wanted to do Finn but no idea how those pipes would fit in the picture
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Dandontdare on 18 July, 2013, 11:51:16 PM
Excellent stuff.

Quote from: GrudgeJohnDeed on 18 July, 2013, 11:32:02 PM
cheers mate! theyre fun to make, any requests?

Nemesis & Torquemada - but they've both got long pointy bits, so may not be easy.
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: GrudgeJohnDeed on 19 July, 2013, 01:14:08 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/JnoEIzI.gif)

hows that? couldnt really make it look like the big circular smileys!
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 July, 2013, 01:54:29 AM
nice  - maybe narrow the snout a bit, shouldn't be as wide as his head, but I like it!
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: GrudgeJohnDeed on 19 July, 2013, 02:10:16 AM
yeah im not very familiar with nemesis the warlock, most of it was before my time and then i mustve missed book ten..

i was using images like this for reference http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/n/nemesis.jpg

i thought it best to pronounce it for the smiley? makes good use of the space too.

but here it is a little narrower - (http://i.imgur.com/74l6hKt.gif)
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: GrudgeJohnDeed on 20 July, 2013, 01:22:45 AM
right, heres my go at torquemada for ya bud.. it was a nightmare! his mask seems to vary so much, from my google search.

(http://i.imgur.com/NwKWLKg.gif)
Title: Re: 2000AD Smilies: Make your own!
Post by: Tjm86 on 04 October, 2017, 05:47:37 PM
Grobbendonk?  Or the Gronk?