People are allowed to just make lemojis for the forum without being a mod or like applying to be an artist?
It's a free forum, you're allowed to do as you wish unless you're in violation of site rules/guidelines. Making lemojis for the site is, as I understand it, just as welcome as creating levels for one of the clone engines.
I didn't know that, maybe I should have a go at making some.
Go ahead!
Thanks for taking the time to give some feedback. I agree with what you've said about :geek:, the glasses do kind of just blend into the outline. A simple way around this is to change the colour of the frames; I tried a few different colours and settled on orange, see what you think.
As for :shrug:, at this point I'd probably only want the animated version to be included with the regular set, if at all. I agree that the static one is a bit unclear.
Designing emoticons is fun, but I've always felt like the Lemmings case is made a lot harder by them not having a mouth... There's only so much you can tell by someone's eyes!
Therein lies the challenge! There are many ways to push the limits of the format to make them more expressive:
Something as simple as adding two spots of colour to the cheeks for Embarrassed
and Cute
is enough to convey their meaning fairly well
Huh?
adds a question mark to convey confusion and/or inquisitiveness
Crylaugh
adds teardrops to the regular Laugh lemoji
, presenting a more expressive laugh
Forehead slap
adds a hand to the forehead to show exasperation, frustration, embarrassment, sarcasm, etc - the facepalm has always been a very versatile emoji
Lemcat
blends feline features into the regular lemming face - this one's inspired by the
cat face emojiSleep
adds zzz's, of course
Most of these additions are based on regular emojis that can be found on various platforms, so most people are likely to be familiar with them and get what's going on.
The challenge for the designer is to continue to play around with the format to see what's possible.