Project Review: Absolut Vodka "Bot Bar" PART III

Here we have the emotions showing a smile and a "Come On", for the Emodicon chat room character "Rocker"

Here we see "Rocker" showing extreme like, and showing some lusting.

Here we have Ingratitude and Sly, for the Emodicon chat room character "Rocker"

Here we have Disinterest and Smirk, for the Emodicon chat room character "Rocker"

Here we have the base emotions of Love and Anger, for the Emodicon chat room character "Rocker"

Here we have Bummed out and fake, for the Emodicon chat room character "Rocker"

Absolut Vodka Website
"Bot Bar" Character Designs
1996 PART III

Client: Absolut Vodka via Troon Ltd.
Art Director: Chris Trages.
Project Date: April 1996

This is my third post covering the series of characters or "emodicons" for an online chat room for the website for Absolut that I created back in 1996. I was contracted by the Design Studio in Santa Monica, Troon LTD.

Here we see my designs for "Rocker" and older hip 70's and 80's rocker dude done in a Picasso-esque style as abstract art character for the chat room. I had a lot of fun with all of them but he was a combo of Eddie Van Halen, Animal from the Muppets, and Eddie Vetter.

In doing these emoticons with the variety of emotions I cannot recommend any higher the great work of Jack Hamm with his book on Cartooning as he has a veritable dictionary of emotions and what the face muscles do in each which made this task a whole lot easier to accomplish his book is here.

You can see the first character "Manhattan" here.

You can see the second " Trophy" here.

Cheers, THOM