Seeking: Your Vision of "Winky"

How do you see our lovable mascot?

Published on October 9, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

Every day. Day-in and day-out I see the same smiling lizard staring at me, giving me that thumbs up and leaning casually against something. He's at the top of the page, he's in my news posts, he's everwhere! He's driving me mad!

Here's what I want. I need some more variations of Winky to use in news posts and articles here on WinCustomize. You've seen a few variations here and there such as Winky Wearing Headphones, Winky Holding Court, or Winky Wins a Medal. And while those are very nice, I want a little bit more variety to choose from.

So I turn to you, the community, for some new takes on our old friend. Here are some ideas to start everyone off. You're in no way limited to these, this is just to get your creative juices flowing

Halloween Winky	Thanksgiving Winky	Christmas Winky
Winky the Reporter	Techno Winky	Pirate Winky
Nerdy Winky	Teacher Winky	Angry Winky

Once you've put together your Winky Masterpiece, post a picture in the comment section of this post. Depending on how many we get, I may run a poll or two to find the most popular to use on the site.

Make the Winkys such that they can be easily scaled to 128x128px without being distorted.

I'm looking forward to what everyone comes up with!

Comments (Page 11)

151

sublime187

on Nov 30, 2007

hah i dont conform to your standards so why dont you do that for yourself?
as in make a random thought box for yourself......uhhh man i feel like i will puke

152

rickalot

on Nov 30, 2007

clear it up if you miss

153

sublime187

on Nov 30, 2007

you should use that to throw your snot rags in! do you cry often?
maybe you should alittle bit more than you already do,, good therapy for people stuck on offending others!
moving right along....

how about a chameleon dressed up as football mascot or a nascar driver?

on Nov 30, 2007

on Feb 20, 2008

Jafo

Member No.23
October 10, 2007 10:05:24
Instead of having the normal smiley emoticons on WC to use in posts couldn't they be replaced by Winky emoticons;happy/sad/angry etc.?
There's a thought....

Now there is a good idea for the NEW Wincustomize.

156

Philly0381

on Feb 20, 2008

Hey zakai1369, now this is a good post to bring back to life!

157

Bash2cool

on Feb 20, 2008

Jafo Member No.23 October 10, 2007 10:05:24Instead of having the normal smiley emoticons on WC to use in posts couldn't they be replaced by Winky emoticons;happy/sad/angry etc.? There's a thought....Now there is a good idea for the NEW Wincustomize.

ya i wanna see more Winkys

158

PoSmedley

on Feb 20, 2008

how about the chamelion dude with a an iron spike running through his face

Okay. I NEVER want to here that I"M THE ONE who's sick and twisted, again.

159

DigitalCHET

on Oct 21, 2008

zakai1369

Member No.2,754,219
February 20, 2008 12:42:00

Now there is a good idea for the NEW Wincustomize.

I thought of that also and tried a few smilies back when the smilies comp was on, but with a limited canvas of 24x24 pixels it's not easy at all to keep Winky's likeness and add expression, so they didn't turn out very well at all.

In any case, the yellow smiley has a long and interesting history and is accepted and easily recognized.

It'd be interesting to see some attemps at this though. Might be an idea for another competion at some stage down the line.

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