<div>Turning his drawings into chat emotes - Tom Ray’s Art Podcast Clip </div><p style="text-align: left;">On an episode of the art podcast, I learn how artist Scott C. Hamilton creates his own chat emotes for his Twitch channel.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">You create emoticons, how is this process done? </h2><p style="text-align: left;">So when I first started on Twitch you don’t get emotes you just get your channel but then they enable people to subscribe to your channel and give you bits which are a penny each. </p><p style="text-align: left;">so people donate a thousand bits, that’s ten dollars. Which happens often. Then you get a little emote for your channel they can use if they’re subscribed and they pop up in the chat. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I’ve got one that’s like “Yo!” and I’ve got another one like “Yay!”</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scott’s Twitch emotes promo</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">I started drawing them for myself and then other people saw me doing it in my chat and people I played games with and said “hey can you draw me some emotes?” and kind of snowballed from there. Now I do quite a bit of it. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">How does one go about turning these things into emotes? I get that you can draw an emote but how do you make them something from a drawing to it actually being in an emote selection?</h2><p style="text-align: left;">What I do is I draw a square image and then I resize it. You have to have three different sizes for emotes. Then there’s a place in twitch under your dashboard that says “affiliates” and you’ve got your emotes. You can just upload your emotes. </p><p style="text-align: left;">So I draw them and then I size them appropriately so that all they have to do is select them and put them in. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Do you assign names to them? So when they’re searching it’s like here’s the “Yo!” one you made. </h2><p style="text-align: left;">Yeah. What it does is it takes the first six letters of your twitch name and then you put whatever you want on the end. So it’s like hmilt-yo or hmilt-hug. </p><p style="text-align: left;">But if they’re subscribed to your channel they can just click on the little emote thing in the bottom right and select it. I never do that I type all my emotes by hand while I’m chatting because another thing I learned from high school that I still do, I’m a touch typist. I never look at my keyboard. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Have you ever made emoticons or any for stuff outside of Twitch? </h2><p style="text-align: left;">I don’t know about using them outside of Twitch. I’m sure I could create emotes I mean it’s you know it’s probably not that technologically difficult right? I’m gonna google that after this and I’ll tell you.</p><p style="text-align: left;">
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