Marko the Rat

Cute ^^ I loved that movie! Wish I could be more help with your question though

That's an awesome mood theme!

Very nice work Marko.

And they don't seem to be too large or intrusive in the least.

Nice work. :)

I wasn't expecting anyone to check over it on so much detail! I agree that some of the images don't really fit the moods very well, but I was limited by the scenes that were in the movie. If you have other suggestions, I'm happy to shuffle things around.

I couldn't find anything for "awake" but I could try recycling one of the images from the "happy" family of moods. (If you look at the tree view, you will see that moods are grouped into branches and sub-branches.)

I could try this one or even this one for "bouncy" if you prefer?

"Loved" was a tricky one, even though a lot of the movie centres around the concept of familial love. I did have in mind this scene, but to me it looks more like Emile is trying to cash in on Remy's popularity.

"Envious", "jealous" and "sympathetic" are all very abstract concepts I had trouble with. Ideas? I didn't really want to 'cheat' by adding emoticons or other graphics but maybe I'll have to.

I will try out a few things between "thirsty" and "drunk".

So, this custom mood theme is really a work in progress even though I've already press-ganged it into active service. I should hopefully have a more polished set in a few weeks' time, ready for sharing.

I've done some revisions based on your (very constructive) criticisms. In the absence of further inspiration or suggestions, I think this is about as good as it's going to get. My other idea was to make "thirsty" be an animated gif of him drinking down in the sewer (I think that gets the idea across better) but I don't like animated moods in general and it would have been a lot of trouble.

My next step would be to package it as a custom mood theme for sharing and then hope that rats will come and use it. There's even an LJ community I could submit it to.

LJ's documentation is a mess, and often contradictory. LJ will not be accepting any more submissions for public mood themes at this time. It looks like the only way is to write a console script, but luckily other people have done a lot of the work for me so I don't think it will be as hard as I thought.