Discord Custom Emoji Challenge

The primary function of an emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversation 🙂

The emoji was predated by the emoticon, short for "emotion icon", also known simply as an emote :-)

The word emoji comes from Japanese é (絵 , 'picture') +  moji (文字 , 'character').

🛑📜👨‍🎓 Stop, enough of the history lesson.

🏆 The Challenge:

Design and create custom emojis for Discord. You can use any software you wish to create your custom emoji(s). Follow the criteria set out below. 

Name your emoji appropriately.

📑 Criteria:

• CG Cookie and/or Blender relevant
• No rude or offensive emojis or emoji names
• Recommended image size of 108x108
• Maximum file size of 256KB
• Emoji names must be at least 2 characters long and only contain alphanumeric characters and underscores
• Image emojis are .png files
• Animated emojis are .gif files (only usable by members with Discord Nitro)
• You can use Photoshop, Gimp, Krita, or an image editing software of your choice

⏱ Timing:

Challenge - May 23rd 2022 to 23:59 US CST June 5th 2022

Judgement - June 6th 2022 to 23:59 US CST June 12th 2022 

🚫 How to enter:

Post your final .png or .gif in the custom-emoji-entries channel in the CUSTOM EMOJI CHALLENGE category on the CG Cookie Discord.

⚖ Judgement:

You, the CG Cookie community will be the judges for this challenge.

Votes will be made via reaction emoji, with 5 categories,

creative = 👨‍🎨

fun = 🥳

on brand = 🍪

relatable = 🙋‍♀️

best in show = 🏆

For fairness, emoji reactions will be enabled for the week of judgement only.

The top emoji for each category will be selected for CG Cookie Discord, subject to meeting required community standards.

🤔🧢🔛 = Thinking Cap On