Facebook tags illustrator to overhaul expression symbols

February 10, 2013

Facebook wants to help you express yourself more deeply. The online social network is looking to overhaul the range of emoticons that users can add to their posts to convey different feelings. Symbols that show a smiley face for happiness or a frown for sadness are among the most common. Get ready for perhaps contemplation, determination and resignation. Facebook has asked Matt Jones, Pixar story illustrator and former storyboard artist at the Wallace and Gromit studio, to design the new emoticons, reports BuzzFeed. He’s qualified, of course, because of how Pixar studies people’s expressions and movements so as to make amazingly realistic animations. Jones is reportedly working independently with Facebook and not on behalf of Pixar. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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