what is the name of the pictures drawn with: /,-,:,(,) ....?

Question

and wher can i get them.
for example this one that camed with a movie:

_____/\____________
\ / ___ / /_____
/ / / / \ / //
/__ /___\ \ \\
===\ /=====\____\_______\======
!VRL\/ViRiLiTY!-----------------

Answer 1

It's formally known as Shift JIS art, forming a character from letters. If u want to read more, here's the wiki link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS_art

Because the alphabet you are using is English, it wont be wrong to call it ASCII art.

Design wise, it can fairly be considered a typographical illustration. Forming an illustration by types. The website below has some example
http://www.bemboszoo.com/

Answer 2

Emoticons: An emoticon (pronounced (IPA) [iˈmoʊtɪkɑn]), also called a smiley, is a sequence of ordinary printable characters, such as ":-)", "^_^", "._.", "XD", "-_-", "=D", ":)", "=P", "o_o" etc. or a small image, intended to represent a human facial expression and convey an emotion. Emoticons are a form of paralanguage commonly used as extended interpunction symbols in e-mail, instant messaging, online chat, bulletin boards, and Internet forums; without them, users believe that simple statements could be misinterpreted due to the lack of facial expression, body language, and vocal intonation in purely written communications. On 19 September 1982, Scott Fahlman (now a Principal Research Scientist in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University) devised a scheme for encoding and conveying one's feelings in small text "glyphs" to overcome this frustration.

The word "emoticon" is, according to popular etymology, a portmanteau of "emotion" and "icon". A similar word, "verticon" (from "vertical" and "icon"), is sometimes used when referring to the East Asian style of emoticon (i.e., the symbols represent a face that is vertically, rather than horizontally oriented).

Often a smile is represented with a basic smiley :-). The colon represents the eyes, the hyphen is for the nose, and the parenthesis for the mouth. Many variants exist with different symbols substituted for the basic ones. The symbol for the nose is often omitted, for example :) or ;). When the colon is replaced with the equals sign, =), the nose is almost always omitted (so one would not see =-), for example). This is also used to make figures, objects and animals.

Answer 3

ascii art!

Answer 4

you mean emoticons? ;)