Merry's forum smilies =)

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@Virt: Yeah, I kind of agree on that... It's much harder to tell the expression on this  compared to this   , though I do like that 3D-ish look mine have. ^^ Guess it has to do with opinions. ^^; Like I'm a bit afraid that making the shading brighter and stuff that it will lose the "3D-ish look" I was trying to achieve. I'm sure it can look much better with more colors, though I also tryyyyy to keep the color amount to around 64, since it does seem bit smaller in file size and makes it where 2 smilies can interact with another without losing much/any quality in one Gif. =)

But yeah, I do see your point and am glad you pointed that out for me. ^^
I did notice that problem when trying to do that one request for a user... his OC has the face a bit lower, being more in the shadows of the smilies, thus making the mouth and such really hard to see.  

Also noticed mine are pretty small in comparison to this site's emoticons, though that was kind of on purpose on my part since the last ones I used were too big...
I made these in Pixel Art (took weeks-months >_<) over a year ago, but thought they were too big and resembled my friend Bouncing Beauty too much. ^^; Was fine for private conversations, and I loved how happy these made her, but when it comes with other users, you can't just have smilies representing a person's OC or a game character when others may not like it. ^^;
         
Cute, but not fitting to something like a Nintendo forum (on my end), right? ^^; Though it's much easier to tell what expression the smiley has than on this -> 
(sigh... I made those in much more motivating times )


Hmm, but besides all that... if I were to do a few versions of the yellow smiley (different contrast, lighting) and posted it in here, could you perhaps give them a look and tell me if one of them looks better? =D
PS: I almost called you Virty! *sweat* My best friend's nickname sounds so similar to your's! =O