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I had this problem in my art once...You sure made me laugh good sir!
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I'm afraid there's no cure, you'll just have to amputate...
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That looks a lot like the Dreamworks smile.
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At least you have more of a chance to get into a Dreamworks animated movie!
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I laughed WAY too hard at that.Β
...The accuracy, though...Β
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hahaΒ just like my friend. Nicely done Β
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I was gonna say you have too much time on your hands, but this is awesome.
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Yes. Yes I do XD
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Oh, goodness. The smugface. It's not inherently a bad expression, but its recent use in animation - and the personality equivalent for character design in general - has really diluted its meaning. Especially when you go down the Jack Sparrow route where the character's confidence turns on a dime depending on the situation. It's supposed to show that the character puts on a tough front to impress people, but is human like anybody else and has his or her own insecurity and fears the worst possible outcome like anyone else. In execution, it gets to be painfully formulaic and the character is defined more by their tendency to overreact rather than any content of their character - See: Jack Spicer from Xiaolin Showdown.
I remember back in the heyday of sprite comics, where an equivalent was the unamused expression. Every character was either relegated to the cynic pile or the comic relief pile. That's what happens when a medium is saturated with youth obsessed with seeing established norms undermined and translate that obsession into an outlook of playing the devil's advocate. What was I talking about, again?
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Say it isn't so!
Β great work as always K-BoΒ
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That disease would actually be pretty scary. Only being able to look smug no matter how you feel so that even when you're trying to show that your feeling sad or sorry you still look smug and therefor causes people to not feel sympathetic towards you. Some fates truly are worse then death
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Smugface afflicts over 100 cartoon characters per week, but nobody likes to talk about it. People, be aware of smugface before it's too late. The more you know. ^_^
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...Otherwise known as Dreamworks Face.Β tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.phpβ¦
Poor Kevie. Well, maybe Indie will come in useful by taking you down a notch and shattering your afflicting smugness.Β
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It's the very first symptom of long term Webcomic Main Character Syndrome. You should get that checked, man.
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Could be worse you have developed Young Blood disease.Β That happens to a lot of comic super heroes.
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And then there is, of course, the dreaded Cloud Strife Disorder that plagues many fan characters over.
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What's worse about FF7 is that they started the trend of "Pretty boys" & the Tom Boy-Girls. It's going to get so bad that you wont be able to tell if it is Hot Chick or a Dude. Talk about identity crisis!
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Don't worry, the grizzled, angry male and busty, bland female got rid of them.
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One venom is as deadly as another I guess.
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oh my god... that's the default face of one of my characters! D:
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A lot of the characters I draw come down with this affliction ever so often. It's very sad
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Silver Lining!: this ALSO raises your chances of being in a Dreamworks movie!
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Only one of my characters gets the smugface, and it's only every so often. I do hope you recover soon from that wretched disease!
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Not the smugface!!! Β
My characters don't suffer from it because most are either ferociously depressed or benignly happy.
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Are you sure this doesn't happen to just cartoon characters? A lot of people on the internet seem to suffer from "smugface."
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If I could Like a post... XD
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