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Introduction
Five years ago, weaponzero gave us . In its time here on deviantART, we've seen this emoticon grow enormous popularity and support. Over the last month, we saw nearly fifty entries into the Blank That Emote contest. You can see a full list of submissions here.
I would personally like to congratulate each and everyone who entered, all the entries had the quality, detail and originality we were looking for. In fact, we had such a hard time selecting the top three that we had to include a number of Honourable Mentions which you can see below.
Judges
Before we announce the winners and their prizes, I would personally like to say thank you to each of the judges and hope that we can again work together sometime in the future. Please personally thank the following deviants...
budgieishere
camelhijackation
darkmoon3636
mattdanna
livius
rocksicle
zacthetoad
3rd Place
Created by LeoLeonardo
"I love the widescreen setting, the beautiful details on the cliff, sky and the magic sword." - livius
"The 'epic' in the title is no exaggeration...it's not often that emotes enter the realm of perspective." - darkmoon3636
"an impressive background and pose" - budgieishere
2nd Place
Created by Mrichston
"observant, brilliantly animated and funny." - rocksicle
"Simplicity is the key here, and simple emotes - if implemented properly - can be real gems." - budgieishere
"A unemotionaless pastries factory is a delight to any sarcastic faring deviant in need of gingersnaps and comebacks." - camelhijackation
"The loop on this is genius, as is the concept," - zacthetoad
1st Place
Created by arrioch
"refreshing, with high quality and good characters." - rocksicle
"This emote is animation heavy, but it's done so well that you can't look away. I'd actually love if this was added at some point, to combat all the s you see around the forums. Though, as he mentions in his description and shows in his animation, nothing phases the blank, though Mr. Blue sure does try!" - darkmoon3636
"This one stands out to me for a number of reasons. Firstly the little "story" that evolves through it. Combine this with an array of fantastic expressions, some top notch animation and the odd random object, and you have a wonderful little emote that really deserves all the praise it received." - budgieishere
"brilliantly animated, great coloring and shading. Nice concept." - mattdanna
"Not does withstand superabuse, but his blankness is so imperturbable it actually drives his enemy to asplosion. The variety, design and animation of the superabuse are fantastic." - livius
"Of all the entries, this submission stood out. The detail, the animation, the originality, the creativity and the concept behind this make it a more than worthy winner." - zacthetoad
Honourable Mentions
With such a large amount of entries, we had trouble selecting from such a diverse and creative gallery. Here are some of our favourites that we felt deserved a little attention...
:thumb58532277: Created by Kermodog
Created by KildGeek
Created by Little-Vampire
Created by Mrichston
Created by NerdXV
Created by photofroggy
Created by Gomotes
Prizes
The following will be awarded to the deviants as listed above. If winners would like to donate their subscription to another deviant, please don't hesitate to note me. Prizes will be awarded at the end of the week.
First Place
12 Month Subscription to deviantART andSecond Place
1 deviantWEAR Lanyard and
1 set of deviantART Buttons
6 Month Subscription to deviantARTThird Place
3 Month Subscription to deviantARTHonourable Mentions
1 Month Subscription to deviantART
Conclusion
Thank you to all who entered and congratulations to the winners. Thanks again to the judges and a special mention to moonbeam13 who made this possible.
zacthetoad
Remember This Guy?
It's time for my yearly journal entry and I had two things I wanted to share.
The first was this deviation that I very randomly stumbled across recently.
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It's a complete mindfuck that someone, somewhere made this six years after I created the emoticon. Awesome.
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And the second thing I wanted to share was a crowd funding campaign I just launched. If you've enjoyed my work over the years, perhaps you'll consider making a pledge. Or sharing this with your friends. Especially if you like beer. Which you should because it's delicious.
Please, check out the campaign and make a pledge.
And Update and a Favour
It's been more than five years since I was active here. And (sadly) it's been five years since I did anything with pixels.
I grew up, went to uni and started a career in advertising.
Anyway, I must ask you all a favour.
If you could please click here and vote that would be swell. You can vote daily for the next two weeks if you're really keen.
It would help me win $10k, and that would be awesome.
Until 2014,
Zac
+ Advertising
Over the past two years or so I've been logging in every few months to see what's doing. I kind of like how everything has changed, I see new layouts, a confusing groups system and perhaps most importantly; updates to the Emoticon Legend. I guess it's also a bit sad that everything has progressed and I haven't been a part of it. I suppose I'll continue to check back in every now and then.
Between my social life, my career, university and other commitments, I just lost the passion I once had for this place. But I love that it is still thriving.
But I need a favour from you all. It only takes a minute.
If you head to www.flavourcrusaders.com
+ Number 5
It's been a few months since I logged in. Was honestly surpised to see I've been given my fifth Daily Deviation. Thanks Synfull (https://www.deviantart.com/synfull).
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Awww Could someone explain why i didn't get honorable mention?? Please i want to know why it lost to a dancing