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If you are a Telegram user, then you must be versed with its amazing features and the fact that it is very open to its users. Telegram Technicians keep innovating them with new features. One of these features Telegram users is soo fun of is the Stickers. Telegram introduces stickers back in the year 2015, and as things are now, many other messaging App developers have copied the lead.
This time around, they are introducing a new sticker type — Animated stickers, which happens to be even more light in weight and consumes less battery than the traditional GIF.
Want to know more about this new innovation? Continue ready this article until the very end.
About the Telegram animated stickers
Telegram engineers have once again made use of their "magic" experiment to create animated stickers using vector graphics which are Lottie-based. TGS format, in which each sticker takes up about 20-30 Kilobytes – six times smaller than the average photo.
Thanks to various optimisations, animated stickers consume less battery than GIFs and run at a smooth 60 frames per second. If a picture is worth a thousand words, that's 180,000 words per sticker.
Are animated stickers open to everyone?
If you are asking yourself this question, then the answer is a big YES! You all know, Telegram is an Open platform and just like the static stickers, users are free to create new animated stickers and share with other users, and like its static predecessor, the Telegram animated sticker format is likely to become the new industry standard in messaging.
Can I start using the animated stickers right away?
Wanting to give the new animated stickers a try? Then you won't have to wait. To get your conversations moving right away, the Telegram artists have created a few sample sets ranging from Rambunctious Rodents to Sentient Snacks. You can find more animated sticker sets in the 'Trending' section of your sticker panel.
As always, the fastest way to find a sticker that fits your mood is to type in a relevant emoji – Telegram will immediately suggest matching stickers.
I will like to create animated telegram stickers, how to proceed?
Ok, if you are an artist and have knowledge on how to create quality animated pictures and will like to create your own animated stickers for Telegram, then there is a guide for that.
To create animated stickers for the Telegram platform, you will need the following:
- Any vector graphics editor that allows exporting vector objects to Adobe After Effects for turning them into animations.
- Adobe After Effects.
- The Bodymovin-TG plugin, a fork of Bodymovin for Adobe After Effects that can be used to export animations to.TGS, the Telegram animated stickers format.
Technical Requirements:
- Sticker/canvas size must be 512х512 pixels.
- Sticker objects must not leave the canvas.
- Animation length must not exceed 3 seconds.
- The animation must be looped.
- Sticker size must not exceed 64 KB.
- All stickers inside one pack must have the same FPS (either 30 or 60).
- You must not use the following Adobe After Effects functionality when animating your sticker: Expressions, Masks, Mattes, Layer Effects, Images, Solids, Texts, 3D Layers, Merge Paths, Star Shapes, Gradient Strokes, Repeaters, Time Stretching, Time Remapping, Auto-Oriented Layers. Using any of these tools will make it impossible to export your animation with Bodymovin-TG.
Uploading Stickers:
Once your stickers are ready, send the
/newanimated command to the @stickers bot – then send it the.TGS files.
Your set will need an icon. Icons for animated sticker sets must be 100x100 pixels, with looped animation not exceeding 3 seconds.
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