You get a range of free
emoticons with live messengers and
most of the forums. These emoticons are used to
express the emotions and actions of the users
while chatting.
There are many web sites which have more
advanced emoticons, these emoticons come in
various shapes and sizes, and some of them even
make sound.
These types of advance emotions are more frequent on pay
sites. There are also a large number of emoticons that
have been generated by the users themselves. These free
emoticons are the ones that are saved by users while chatting
on the various messengers.
While emoticons rule in the west, the east is more prone to
the use of ‘anikaos’. Anikaos literally means ‘animated faces’
in Japan. These are spherical blobs that keep popping up with a
face that depicts a large number of emotions. These anikaos are
greatly diverse, you can find anything ranging from household
animals, and characters from famous series such as star wars
and dragon ball –Z. as these anikaos are user generated you can
find a large number of anikaos an the net.
Apart from anikaos and emoticons there are a large number of
other things that can be made using the pixel art. Most of the
people do use pixel art in order to make miniatures that are
used in their websites, MySpace pages and also on
messenger.
Another form of pixel art that is a rage these days are
animated gifs of Nintendo and Sega characters from the years
1980s and 1990s. These are characters such as Mario, Kirby
and Sonic the hedgehog. These have been recreated from the
8 bit, 16 bit and the 32 bit games on which they appeared. With
girls the cute gifts of Hello Kitty and pucca love are a big
rage. These gifs can be found easily on MySpace pages. These
gifs are very adorable and these days every one is using them
in order to decorate and personalize their web pages.
Most of the animated gifs which are very popular on MySpace
pages are those characters which have a good market offline
too. Their rising popularity offline manifests by the demand
that they create online. Pokemon animated gifs are also popular
with both the sexes. The fact that the pokemon games are very
popular, and also because of the cuteness of the character,
they have a good online business.
The use of emoticons is not limited to the corporate
characters only. There are a lot of people who are creating a
whole lot of their own characters and are circulating it around
on WebPages and using it on messenger. The possibility and
range of these emoticons are endless there are emoticons that
have winking cheese burgers to a bob that will run towards you
with a butchers knife! The use of free
emoticons is the best way to unleash the creativity
within.