Make it Live with Animated Emoticons
An emotion is described as a textual expression representing the face of a writer’s mood or facial expression. Emoticons are frequently used to alert a responder to the temper of a statement, and can transform and improve interpretation of plain text.
Research shows that the application of emoticons may have developed in the nineteenth century were they were regularly used in casual or comical writing. Digital forms of emoticons on the Internet were said to be conceived in September1982.
The word ‘emoticon’ is a combination of the words ‘emotion’ and ‘icon’ which is exactly what it is, an icon used to articulate emotions. In web forums, instant messengers and online games, and to some degree Microsoft Word, text emoticons are often automatically substituted with small related images, which came to be called “Emoticons” as well. Originally, these image emoticons were fairly simple and superseded only the most straightforward and common character series, but gradually they became so compound that the more specialized emoticons are often input using a menu or popup windows, sometimes listing hundreds of items.
Emoticons have also expanded further than plain caricature facial expressions to a variety of still or moving images. Were they were initially used as facial expressions; emoticons have now evolved to comprise other expressions such as an “emoticon” showing a guitar as an allusion to music.
Graphical emoticons were created in 1996. There is extensive use of GIF or PNG graphic files, because of their simplicity and small file size capabilities. most emoticon artists draw their emoticons pixel by pixel; the custom msn emoticons feature allows the use of animated msn emoticons up to 50×50 pixels in size. Some emoticons are made in vector format, such as SVG, and automatically developed using a graphics library. This allows SVG files to be automatically made as a GIF or PNG file, which is congruent with most browsers, which SVG is not.
