Ok..So I haven't been "active" here in a while and while I've been gone I've been at DA making emotes. I use gimp and notice that there are no emotes here So I thought I'd make a tutorial to get some of you guys started.

tip from pixelated (I also do this and strongly recomend it!)
Anyway, one thing that would be really nice to include in your tutorial - when you start, obviously zoom up a lot. Then go View>New View. Then in the new window, zoom back out to 100%. Keep this somewhere else on your screen out of the way. This is good so that when you make details when zoomed in, you don't have to keep on zooming back out to 100% to see what it looks like in normal view - so basically, you draw on the zoomed in, and you automatically see all the changes you just made on the 100% window

To start make a new transparent image and get out your pencil with the circle (01) (3x3)
Ok so the main part of the emote syle is....5,2,1,2,5 Here's what I mean:


Ok so now you have a nice circle time for some shading! the basics of shading is to make it go from very light in the top left corner to dark at the right hand edge. you can do this by using a radial gradient or use the pencil to shade it. here are the steps for both pencil and gradient: This is the pencil method

Ok so heres the gradient method: This one's not so self explanitory. You start with the out line, take out the "fuzzy select tool" (press u) and click inside the circle, the inside should now be selcted. n\Now take the same shade of blue but make it much lighter, it should be in the bottom right hand corner of the color box. For the other color just take the same color as your base. Now take out the gradient tool (L) and change it to a radial gradient. Start near the right hand corner of the emote and drag down so it is just outside the lower left hand corner.

The shading style is what really "defines" and emoticonists style so play around with it and fine your own way! don't jsut steal someone elses. These are just too get you started.

Now what brings the emote too life is the facial expression. These are what you can really play around with but heres a basic over view of the generic expressions.
Ok so tips on the face. Do this on a separate transparent paper. Use the same color as the frame and draw the face. Now duplicate the face and move the bottom down by 1 pixel. Now make the opacity on the bottom of the face to 20. Merge them down and you get the final product.

Happy-

Sad -

experiment with the facial expressions all you want but for now I'm going to give you a little lesson on tards. Tards may sound like a derogative term for someone with a mental disability but in the emote world it isn't really used as mean. All it is is someone who acts spastic or hyper. so there faces will ook something like this:

That's all I have for right now and keep in mind that these are a starting bored for you to get out there and make your own emotes, I will be making an animation tutorial in the near future. You can save these and open it in gimp, zoom in, and make sure you get what I'm doing! Good luck!

I haven't seen a tut like this around GIMP anywhere, i'll give it a shot when I get home

Thanks, I made because I noticed there are no emotes in the gimp community

Bleheheheh I made some.

I really like this tutorial.


More I made:

Those are really nice! I esecially like the crying one, maybe make the eyes bigger though so the tears look more like they're coming out of it, but overall those are very nice!

Nice tut! Here are some of my results:

Lol nah jk I'm doing it now.
Anyway, one thing that would be really nice to include in your tutorial - when you start, obviously zoom up a lot. Then go View>New View. Then in the new window, zoom back out to 100%. Keep this somewhere else on your screen out of the way. This is good so that when you make details when zoomed in, you don't have to keep on zooming back out to 100% to see what it looks like in normal view - so basically, you draw on the zoomed in, and you automatically see all the changes you just made on the 100% window.

Anyway, I'll show my results soon.

EDIT: Finished for now, its late night now so I'm gonna turn in. I will probably make more tomorrow - thanks for the tut!
Normal smiling:
Rolling eyes animation:

Simple animations like the rolling eyes one above are really easy if you know the basics of using layers as .gif frames.

@pixelated, Thanks I forgot to add that part but I added it as a tip from you you'r emotes look nice my only critiques are, for the green one, and all other light colored emotes, you should make the eyes, mouth and outline darker so they don't strain the eyes. As for the rolling eyes one it would be cool if you cut out the the frames where they stick on the bottom left hand corner so it's a countinous roll, but it also looks very nice as is

nice tut, these are cute!

Thanks 2-ton

Been meaning to move this to official for a while, but kept forgetting. It's one of the few (only?) emoticon-tutorials on GT and deserves a place in the official crowd.

Moved.
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Griatch

I do believe it's the first, I think you just compelled me to make one on animation Griatch

A gift from me to you! These are awesome. Fun little things to fol around with.



Thanks Snowsock!

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Ahahaha, thanks! But when you save your animation, save it as a gif, nad on the screen where, you see the gif comment, the miliseconds, and frame disposal. You want to leave everything alone, but change the frame disposal to replace. This will make the hand animation work. Overall it's very nice

This one seem to be better? Experimented here.



Ehh, it looks different on here than it does on PhotoBucket...
http://s756.photobucket.com/albums/xx20 ... cyani2.gif

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The animation is right this time...not quite sure what happens with the border though

Whoa, awesome tutorial! Thanks very much for sharing.

Lol, nice outcomes.

I will not explain how to make the BG transparent, and this won't have the typical emote shape, this tutorial will be using my own style of emotes, and teach you animation repetition.
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Ummmm....what? This isn't for total gimp newbies, this is typical "emoticon shape" smilies have a different shape, if you actually knew something about emotes, 5,2,1,2,5 is the normal size, and this tutorial has nothing about animation in it. It isn't an animation tutorial. Good job. I'm so glad I'm being mocked by someone who joined today, and appears to know very little about gimp or emoticon making.

Awesome tut. Thanks for sharing.



What do you think?


Bye.

Awesome! I love those

i read your tutorial and instantly started experimenting

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additional experiments

Marked! I will check it later!thanks a lot.
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