Let's Make Smilies!

[Buster's Uncle]

Agreed - it's fun and easy to paste in a head.

Here's a blank with the banana taken out but the arms and legs unaltered.

[Flux]

Hmm
I notice I made my template off of your spock, and rather than a banana it's his uniform. That must be why it looks weird compared to
I'm going to see if a banana from my avatar looks okay. Stand by.

[Buster's Uncle]

That thing you're doing where you mod/build on my work is like the way I learned. 

[Flux]

I'm scrapping it. It looks bad. It will only work if I use a real sonic head from one of the 16-bit games.
-And who did you build off of? Just random things from the internet?
EDIT: I noticed that we have different smilie sets. Maybe I should try my hand at making one? Of course, I would have to recreate ever.single.gif here and even theny nobody would use it probably.

[Buster's Uncle]

Random things.

You'll save yourself some surprises if you check Hard edge when you're erasing/cutting things like that out - the indexed mode .gifs use doesn't permit semi-transparencies.  (On the other hand, a larger head that's going to display in .jpg or .png for something like an avatar will look less pixelated/better around the edges if Hard edge isn't checked.)

Go ahead and make a set for the learning experience.  Knowing you, the base look might be speedy obnoxious and blue...

[Flux]

Random things.

You'll save yourself some surprises if you check Hard edge when you're erasing/cutting things like that out - the indexed mode .gifs use doesn't permit semi-transparencies.  (On the other hand, a larger head that's going to display in .jpg or .png for something like an avatar will look less pixelated/better around the edges if Hard edge isn't checked.)

Go ahead and make a set for the learning experience.  Knowing you, the base look might be speedy obnoxious and blue...

Nah, if I did a set using just the sonic head it would be far too easy. Here is a few emotions I made. Literally all I did was change the mouth/eyes. I mean, the hardest part was finding a decent sprite to use. Which, by the way, every pixel in the one I'm using is actually 3x3 pixels.
What about a bunch of square smilies? It might be unoriginal, especially considering at least one of these  () was based off a square set, but triangles would be strange and circles are overdone. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Sure.  Give it a try.

[Flux]

Basic emotions. No animation necessary.

[Buster's Uncle]

I like.

[Flux]

I like.

Me too

[Buster's Uncle]

What impresses is that you drew from scratch and have, so far, done in your own consistent style.

[Flux]

What impresses is that you drew from scratch and have, so far, done in your own consistent style.

I think I'll finish all the other normal emotions tonight. 
Ooh, that might be a daunting task. But I believe in myself.

[Flux]

?
You know what, I just noticed I put the frames backwards. But I'm going to leave that there too.
It looks so funny. I also noticed his face gets fatter halfway through.
Rough it is.
Okay, fixed it. Check the third attachment.
The fixing of this smilie might have taken longer than the making of it.

[Buster's Uncle]

[Flux]

I think I've almost got all of the most basic emotions.