Facebook is beginning to roll out an animated sticker pack designed by Pixar illustrator Matt Jones. Facebook has been trying to take emoticons a step further by super-sizing them in shape, style, and substance with its new Stickers packs, which are currently available on Facebook for iOS and Messenger for Android. This new set, named Finch, is meant to better represent the breadth of human emotions that emoticons so crudely depict. Facebook contacted Jones to work on the project and had him team up with UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner to nail down the nuance of human emotions.
The stickers are certainly expressive, but their buggy eyes may elicit a different emotion from you than Facebook is expecting. But what Jones created...
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