Blender Smileys!

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blender-smileys.pngThe French Blender community BlenderClan has gathered a fine collection of Blender-oriented smilies to be used on BB and forums. Here’s a snapshot of their work.

These smilies are under a Creative Common license, meaning that you are free:

  • to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to Remix — to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:

  • Attribution : You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work)
  • Share Alike : If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license.

The smilies are available in various format: .gif and .png and most importantly, in .svg. You are now able to pick a vector graphic software like Inkscape and build easily your own new emoticons (under the same license): a few of the smilies in the pack are very humourous, or close to private jokes, showing how easy it is to build a simple smilie.

Full credits go to the talented authors: riesseg, Traven, TSpawn, Vincent, Zelouille, Paul and Golem13.
Special thanks go to riesseg, for the original design and the very first .svg files he agreed to share, and to Traven who put a lot of effort in supporting this project, compiling/polishing everything, and even hosting the .zip file with all the smilies.

You now don’t have anymore excuse for any dull or sad smilies that could be featured by your Blender-oriented forums ;-) These smilies have been built by the Blender community *for* the Blender community. Let’s propagate them over the Web, and report any interesting new spawn to the authors, they will be pleased ;-)

The link to this outstanding Blender-smilies collection:

http://traven.warrenberberd.org/smilies/smilies_pack.zip

Please enjoy!

Article submitted by Olivier Saraja

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    • tmr232

      Sooo Cool….
      I love the way those smilies look.

    • Gat

      Blender is taking over the world! How cool is that?

    • kram1032

      Lol!
      They look funny!
      I love that idea!
      Great work!

      ____
      I should stop, using exclamation marks!

    • http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=96067 Catboy85

      Wow! These are just GREAT!
      I think I will be using these in my blog.

    • kram1032

      Any way to use them on Blender Nation? :)

    • http://www.realillusions.net/pinciani/ Sinistar

      Great idea!! :D

    • kram1032

      Oh! And a blender-create-smiley-contest, to add many additional options for custom blendersmileys:

      4 Categories:

      -Best overall Smiley
      -Best Eyes
      -Best Mouth
      -Best Additional stuff (like the Wings on the Angel-Smiley or the labels, that are held by some of the smileys)

      What do you think?

    • http://www.feeblemind.org olivS

      @Bart: I forgot Golem13 in the authors… Could you please add him? Thanks!!!

      @kram1032: lol ! a blender-smiley contest would be lovely, but are you sure you really need categories??? ;-)

    • kram1032

      not really, but I’d like, to have those things separated, because of the possibility to remix them :D

      _
      (My inkscape skills are close to zero, but by remixing two smileys (ok, by remixing the parts of them) I’ve already got one more smiley :D )
      __
      I love that design, it’s very cute :)

    • kram1032

      Ah, a category-split, that’s more important:
      animated and still :D
      Currently, there are no animated smileys…

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @olivS: added!

    • CG_Tiger

      They should make them into T-shirts and sell them in the Blender shop!!!

    • Lasphere

      yaay New smileys for my msn! :D

    • kram1032

      Does anyone know a way to get bigger smileys into MSN, than the default-size?
      Those Blendersmileys are slightly too big… and get cut! why can’t they get resized!?!?

    • http://www.hamsterking.com JoOngle

      The smileys are really COOL and a FRESH BREATH! :)

      That said…I have some graphics critique that might
      be of help if you feel like improving the already very
      cool artwork you have made here:

      - Be careful when working with artwork that will be very
      small, therefor you need to consider EVERY PIXEL, you have
      too much anti-aliasing on the small versions of the smilies,
      thus it looks kind of blurry.

      - Also remember that there are certain “rules” to “beauty”, when looking at your very fine work…you seem to need some
      kind of consistency when creating the smilies such as… smilie facials – mouth and eyes should stay 100 % fixed even if they have various expression. And Balance is of upmost importance…such as…do not place pixels too close with the mouth or eye region…as it will work against the expression you try to create.

      - Remember to keep lines CLEAN, a smile should have a “perfect curve” rather than a “bulky” line on one of the sides…it will look more appealing if you keep a “clean line” when designing such icons as smilies.

      Again – try to work on PIXEL level when you make the
      small versions as you can´t just “dabble” with Anti-aliasing when things get this small…every pixel count, a small change in colour-tint will make ALL the difference on every account.

      That said – the smileys absolutely ROCK! ;o)

    • riesseg

      Thanks all for the funny comments.
      It’s great that you like our job, and see in website or in a msn’s pack could be funny too.

      I’m agree is you joOongle about the pixel work. But… i was too busy to did them with gimp, one pixel by one.
      So if someone want did it, he can ^^

      Same, if someone want creat a website or if blender.org want creat a part to the developpement of blender’s art goodies it’s very fun :D.

      So let’s propagate them over the Web, and report any interesting new spawn to the authors, they will be pleased ;-)

      thanks.

      - riesseg -

    • http://jogai.nl Jogai

      What about using them on BlenderArtists? Look at http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=100393

    • http://yorik.orgfree.com Yorik

      Very nice!! It could be quite funny to find thos smileys spread across blender-related sites and forums.. A kind of “secret mark” :)
      So you’re back from holidays Bart? Hope you enjoyed. Welcome back!

    • Master Danix

      Groovie,it fit well to the blender artists community , with some translations ;)

    • http://niel.seyanim.com madman

      Some problems using the .gif in dark backgrounds.

      My xoops not accept .png :-s

    • http://niel.seyanim.com madman

      ok, I fixed all the .gif for work with dark backgrounds.

      Can see here:
      http://niel.seyanim.com/niel2/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1623&forum=2&post_id=15941#forumpost15941

    • gaalgergely

      great work! i wish blendernation had them…

    • Traven

      thanks for all your comments, they make me feel really happy :-)

      I have some comments too

      - if you want the smilies in a bigger size, i put the .svg file in the pack, so you have just to export the wanted smiley in the wanted size, there will not be any problem of aliasing

      - the smilies in .gif format havce been created specially for the forums of The Blender Clan, so i know there would be problems with the dark backgrounds. if your navigator can’t work with the png pictures (with alpha canal of course) i’ve only one thing to say : use FireFox ^^

      - i know there isn’t any animated smilies, but now, everybody can make them ^^

      -Traven-

    • http://www.neurojack.com cmw

      Anybody else think they look like goldfish?

    • turlutte-hute-hute

      French people can’t write their own language correctly that’s why they prefer using smilies…

    • Pablo

      kram1032:

      To make big msn emoticons you have to use GIF animated format. It’s easy to do with GIMP by adding a transparent layer and saving as gif. You can archieve emoticons of 32×32 in official msn and as big as the original image in others programs such as gaim.

    • http://www.tobiassolutions.com TOBIAS

      Very cool smileys ;)

    • http://meanwhile.beds.ac.uk Adam

      In case anyone wants to use these in Adium I have made a xtra (waiting for it to be accepted on adiumxtras.com – credited to the above authors as the cc licence says)

      you can download the zip here and just double click the file to install

      http://meanwhile.beds.ac.uk/dav/blender/BlenderSmiley.zip

    • http://meanwhile.beds.ac.uk Adam

      Adding Smileys to wordpress :D

      Turn on smileys

      Go to your Admin Panel
      Select Options > Writing
      In the Formatting section, check the box for “Convert emoticons like :-) and :-P to graphics on display”

      How Can I Have Different Smiley Images Appear?
      Simplest way:

      Find your smiley image files in the /wp-includes/images/smilies directory and back them up to another directory
      Note the names of each smiley file. Your files must match these names and should be in the same ‘gif’ image format.
      For predictable behavior, the image sizes should be similar.
      Upload your new files to the /wp-includes/images/smilies directory with an FTP program.

    • kram1032

      ah, thanks :D

    • chlue

      just curios:

      > Attribution : You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work)

      Does this mean, that if I put these smileys on a private webspace and use them anywhere on the net (forum message,…), that I am intrinsically required to put a link to the license file beside the smiley, if I dont want to violate the license?

    • kram1032

      Thanks for that Hint, I’ll try :D

    • http://dontwhavesuch Blenderer

      cool thing :)

    • Mystery

      These NEED to be put up on elYsiun!

      Great stuff.

      Mystery

    • Cryonaka

      They look Jamaican.

    • http://www.firmanryan.blogspot.com Firman Ryan

      that is a great icon. i like it. It’s different from yahoo smiles, your smiles icon is a creative.

    • fcoiffie

      But, in the Zip file, there are proprietary Microsoft fonts and I think they can’t redistribute these fonts… Licences must be respected !

    • kram1032

      but the smileys, that are holding shields, don’t need a font, any more, it’s fixed in the pic…
      …and you can get the authors permissions….

    • epat

      hmm – we’ll have to call them BLENDIES!!! YAY!!!…
      ~epat. :)

    • epat

      …*moment of madness passed*…

    • kram1032

      Blendies!
      Lol

      why madness? xD

    • Traven

      humm Blendies …… I love that, i think i will call them like this

      for the problem about the fonts, i know it, i’m looking for a solution

      Enjoy

      -Traven-

    • http://yorik.orgfree.com Yorik

      I added them to my blog :D

    • http://meanwhile.beds.ac.uk adam

      A better way to do custom smileys on wordpress is to upload the folder of smileys emoticons into wp-includes/images

      install
      http://qad.donationcoders.com/wp/custom-smileys/

      and you can then admin to use that folder of smileys its great I did it on one of my blogs
      http://mad.beds.ac.uk/nmrg/

    • radialronnie

      Links are dead :( I was going to make a 3d animated version of them cause i got some free time right now..