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DanShive — Shrink Emoticon
Published: 2006-11-18 23:38:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 4572; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 1791
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I had a brilliant scheme where I'd use the pixel resize method of Paint Shop Pro to automate the shrinking of this smiley. The automated size reduction made lopsided, deformed smilies, so I wound up making each stage of this animation manually. Yay!While this may seem like a weirdo shrink emoticon that would only be for shrink enthusiasts, but I think it would also work in "oh crap I can't believe I said that" sorta situations, so I still have hopes of DA considering this emoticon.
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It would definitely be interesting to be able to use this as a regular DA emoticon. I agree with other comments, though, that the shrinking effect might be better if it were slowed down just slightly, but as it is, it's still good.
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Could be an "OH CRAP RUN AWAY!" kinda thingy..
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I like this a lot... then again, you even mentioned in the description that it may appeal to shrinking enthusiasts... ^^
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i would just about use that every day lol great job man
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I like it, but it seems a little fast to me. Consider slowing the animation some?
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Definitely faving this. And using it, if it turns up on the forums...
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also following your thought of i cant believe i just said that.....for one of those awkward situations, it would be *backs away quickly* .....cause part of the way it shrinks looks like its going backwards rapidly.
Or maybe some shrink soda lol
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Yaknow, now I'm just waiting until you make a Squirrel emoticon, or a Writer's Block emoticon
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o.o'''' Oh, crap, did you not want me to tell everyone your middle name was Drew?
I think Elliot made you make this; payback for that filler Justin gave you five bucks for.
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Cool!
But maybe try looping it, so the emoticon unshrinks. It looks kinda weird.
But ANYWAYS, I'd use this any day!
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While I know (think?) you're not an animator, dan, and thus probably aren't gonna spend a huge amount of time on this stuff, there's one small touch that I think would improve this smiley a great deal -- Anticipation. You know, how people curl back before they jump, wind up before pitching, etc! I think a small grow-hesitate-shrink instead of just the straight-up shrink would make this absolutely perfect -- and remove the chance that someone would mistake this for a "zooming out" smiley
P.S.; This gives you an opportunity to make the eyes bulge a bit during the grow part
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There originally was an anticipation part (though no growth). My thinking was that I wanted it to work both literally and figuratively, and I think it leans more towards the literal if it doesn't go right into the shrinking.
In the original, I had the face smiling, followed by the look of worry, then shrinking. For the metaphorical "I feel so small" dealie, I think it works more universally if it starts at the look of worry. Starting with the smile works better in some cases, but it's less universal.
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I hope I'm not coming across as piling onto you, ^_^;;;;; I just have a perfectionist streak and I think this could be reaaaally great with a few small extra touches.
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Been out with Amanda's Favourite Drink then?
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I think we should have that on Keenspot, along the Bunny!!
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I could see myself using this emote. This one could get used.
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