Hi,
thanks for the ton of feedback. I'll be away over the weekend, but I'll comment now.
These smileys are completely useless. It's nonsense to have smileys without a mouth.
Smiling is done with the entire face, right? The mouth will help still.
The best idea is to redraw them all to something more appropriate.
Yes!
Some smileys in the current differ only by 3 or 4 pixels. This is horrible to distinguish. This is not how you should do graphical emoticons.
As said in the IRC quote, a smiley should exaggerate. It needn't look realistic.
is fine, and I hate the proposed replacement.
Hatred noted, but I can't do much without understanding your reason.
seems not fine due to reasoning above, only 4 interesting pixels, hard to distinguish.
huge eyes is closer to which I like the way it is.
The latter is okay because of the entirely different color. Didn't feel like huge-eyes is closer to that, but thanks for the input.
addition would definitely be better than a replacement due to different preferences here.
Design intuition is to scrap the redundancy, but I fear we'd step on too many toes, hmm.
<NaOH> cartoonishness is a relative scale
<NaOH> the other smileys are relatively mellow.
Yes, the other smileys can be made better. Having proposed this, it's now my duty to try making some. :> Otherwise I'll get BradLee'd. Will look into it next week.
The other proposed one with slightly narrower eyes doesn't really look as shocked to me
I feel the same.
I'd recommend the admins not to change any existing smileys yet. At most, add the Clam. Let's see whether I produce something interesting next week. I suck at drawing, but I believe it's still enough to improve the current smileys. :>
-- Simon