> professional animators Maybe not for professionals, but for Joe Average sending emoticons from his phone as part of a text message, probably. The needs of a

> professional animators Maybe not for professionals, but for Joe Average sending emoticons from his phone as part of a text message, probably. The needs of a professional animator and your average text-messager are different by orders of magnitude. He observed that in a fantasy or abstract situation (i.e. cartoon faces, comics, etc.), color != ethnicity, which is an excellent observation which does support his position. You, on the other hand, tried to claim basic emoticons were insufficient because they would prove insufficient for a professional animator.