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I'd actually like to get a few more smileys. Needless to say, Elmo will never be one of them. Not while I'm breathing oxygen. 
The little red guy made the current Christmas menu, but I felt he kind of had to. That was actually my idea.
I feel Sesame is so heavily represented and dominates the Muppetverse so much that I went light on them in the smileys. If I were able to, the SS I would consider adding are (in this order) Cookie Monster, Big Bird and the Count. I do think we could do with a happy Sesame smiley besides the goofy Ernie.
That's what always happens with the smiley feedback - everyone campaigns for a variety of choices while it's best to keep them neat and simple. There's none in the current lineup that I'm willing to nix. I feel they do represent the Muppet Show, Muppets Tonight (Pepe), Sesame Street, Bear in the Big Blue House and Fraggle Rock. Very recognizable characters from a variety of properties. Muppet Central's design has always been Muppet Show heavy and I particularly dig that.
Not only do the smileys span several projects, but they each emote something specific in the smiley realm. It was no easy feat. Also keeping them within a fairly uniform head-size and translating them crisply into pixels. We wanted so many characters to start with, but widdled them down to these.
My favorite of the new ones is Wembley! I had forgotten just how expressive that character is until watching so much Fraggle Rock! The Swedish Chef just looked so good, but I'm not married to the idea of his smiley. I originally thought of a Cookie one. I'd like both and just use Cookie for his wild googly eyes. That's a Muppet emotion. I also had created a nice-looking Doozer a while back. Personally, I'd like to add more than three, but three would be a good start (or finish) for them.
Rizzo (shifty), Wembley (coy), Swedish Chef (hungry), Cookie Monster (hungry or googly eyes), Doozer (busy), Count (numbers/counting/lists), Big Bird (letters/spelling/learning), Camilla (chicken) - are ones that seem to make some sense to me.
The little red guy made the current Christmas menu, but I felt he kind of had to. That was actually my idea. I feel Sesame is so heavily represented and dominates the Muppetverse so much that I went light on them in the smileys. If I were able to, the SS I would consider adding are (in this order) Cookie Monster, Big Bird and the Count. I do think we could do with a happy Sesame smiley besides the goofy Ernie.
That's what always happens with the smiley feedback - everyone campaigns for a variety of choices while it's best to keep them neat and simple. There's none in the current lineup that I'm willing to nix. I feel they do represent the Muppet Show, Muppets Tonight (Pepe), Sesame Street, Bear in the Big Blue House and Fraggle Rock. Very recognizable characters from a variety of properties. Muppet Central's design has always been Muppet Show heavy and I particularly dig that.
Not only do the smileys span several projects, but they each emote something specific in the smiley realm. It was no easy feat. Also keeping them within a fairly uniform head-size and translating them crisply into pixels. We wanted so many characters to start with, but widdled them down to these.
My favorite of the new ones is Wembley! I had forgotten just how expressive that character is until watching so much Fraggle Rock! The Swedish Chef just looked so good, but I'm not married to the idea of his smiley. I originally thought of a Cookie one. I'd like both and just use Cookie for his wild googly eyes. That's a Muppet emotion. I also had created a nice-looking Doozer a while back. Personally, I'd like to add more than three, but three would be a good start (or finish) for them.
Rizzo (shifty), Wembley (coy), Swedish Chef (hungry), Cookie Monster (hungry or googly eyes), Doozer (busy), Count (numbers/counting/lists), Big Bird (letters/spelling/learning), Camilla (chicken) - are ones that seem to make some sense to me.
