Different explorations for a Mood Persona project. Client wanted a Character/Spokesperson to humanize an interaction and also wanted to gauge a customers feelings or mood.
Explorations ran the gamut of flat and glyphy, cute, funny, slightly expressive to hugely expressive... here are some of the close to final explorations.
Here I mocked up potential use/function for selecting a mood. Fading, animating, glow, enlarging.... a lot of different options for the interaction