dude i havent seen this till just now - this stuff is great!!! my first thought when i saw your first post was "i want to see your characters animated..." as in those first 5 characters animated as rotating in a circle to make it look 3d. =)
i think the change to black eyes was a huge plus.... but what about the eyebrows? do you have teal eyebrows? have you seen anyone with teal eyebrows? idk, im gettin old and i dont get out much, so maybe the kids these days are having teal eyebrows.... haha
im no 2d artist, but i *DO* know that you can express a helluva lot of emotion through the eyebrows, eyes, and eyelids. (i know this from watching hours and hours of Family Guy lol. ) and i say "eyes" because the shape of the eyeballs gives a lot of hint to the emotion of a character. I noticed in a lot of your pictures, the eyes stay the same... and ocasionally the eyebrows change... but it's the mouth that does the talking.
ooooo...... crap.... i just now realized that you were doing the lip synch stuff. yea... the lightbulb just turned on. LOL normally, i'd delete everything i said, but i want to post the comments so you can see my retarded input and have a laugh. heh..... man, i even made an MSPaint masterpiece demonstrating how you can show emotion with the same (blank) mouth features...
hmm... actually, the mouth serves no purpose other than to say "these are lips"... cover the lips up and you still have the same expression/emotion!
im sorry, i know im prolly preaching to the choir here, but i like what you got here and when you get some animations done, post em cuz id like to see them! keep it up man!
ps... just had to do this... lolz!
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