Part 3, Week 6

[soc_puppet]

Goodness, is it the end of Part 3 already? I can hardly believe it!

This week's moods are: Hyper, Amused, Cheerful

Starting here, I am now going to be adding an additional optional mood at the end of every Part. There are five Parts after this one, and the last one has only five moods in it; that means that, if you want to finish up a couple of weeks early and have almost the entire month of December off from mood theme work, you only have to do one extra mood per Part!

How does this work? All I will be doing is adding an extra optional mood to work on for the final week of Parts 3 through 7. You can still work on the moods in any order you like, but I know December is really busy for a lot of people, and having a little break from an extra challenge might be nice. Plus, it'll give you a longer cushion if you want to do Mood Theme in a Year again next year 😜

That said, making moods in December might be a nice break from the rest of everything for you! So in addition to the optional additional mood every Part, Part 8 will be going forward as planned.

All that is to say:

This Part's optional mood is: Accomplished

What are your thoughts on this week's moods? Are you excited to work on any of them? With the end of the Angry moods, we've moved onto variations on Happy. Are there any you're looking forward to? Do you think you'll have trouble coming up with all the potential Happy variants, or do you expect to zoom right through? And are you looking forward to the break next week? Let's talk about it!

Comments

[spiralicious]

While I'm not worried about these three moods, I am a little worried about going through the different variations of happy in general, mostly about giving them enough variation to be distinguishable between each other.

[soc_puppet]

Oof, I feel that. I've had to rely on wordplay for like. Three moods now, two of them under the Happy umbrella.

When in doubt, there's always Very Slight Design Changes! The Big Eye theme that I set for this community literally just changes color and/or direction the eyes are looking for some of the moods, and I totally respect that. I did virtually the same thing with Enraged and Infuriated: They're both rat silhouettes with flaming eyes, but for Enraged, I mirrored the image and added a flaming aura. Definitely one of the easier moods I've made as a result 😂

[spiralicious]

Yeah, I did a lot of subtle changes with the angry moods, mostly I gave the pumpkins eyebrows and moved them around for effect, along with subtle eye or mouth changes. A couple, I did the same thing, just made the pumpkin a different color. It just feels a little harder with the happy moods for some reason.

[redsixwing]

Ooh, that's a clever way to balance it out. :D

[soc_puppet]

Thanks!

I'm also thinking of starting a Minimal Mood Theme thing to run parallel with Parts 3 through 7; just include all the moods from Part 1, plus the three moods from Part 2 that have the most derived images, and people can still have the fun of making a mood theme with a community while not committing to a whole year's worth of images. I think it'll have promise for anyone who might want to jump in, but doesn't want to wait for next year, and also doesn't want to just start arbitrarily in the middle.