Telegram has once again updated its application incorporating new features, and this time the novelty focuses on one of the features most used by users of the service: stickers. And it is that the service has included the new animated stickers, some moving stickers that attract a lot of attention and that you will surely want to use as soon as possible.
Animated stickers on Telegram, all advantages
Again, Telegram again differs from WhatsApp including very attractive functions, and on this occasion the addition goes far beyond a question of aesthetics or differentiation from the rest of the services. The new animated stickers are, in addition to being fun, highly recommended to use, since they offer some characteristics that make them special.
- On the one hand, we will be able to see how the fluidity in which they move is amazing. They work to 60 images per second and allow you to enjoy an extremely smooth and fluid animation, giving a very real movement aspect.
- Another advantage is its size, since these stickers will not exceed 30 KB of weight, so its distribution will be fast and without waiting, helping the phone's memory and your data rate.
- This also leads to a particularly interesting consequence for users, since being light files, the processor works much less, so battery autonomy is greatly benefited by using these animated stickers, something that does not happen with GIFs. .
Considering how tentative GIFs are to express emotions, a solution like animated stickers will come in handy for saving battery life and improving the app's performance (admit it, you send hundreds of GIFs a day in the same conversation).
How to create animated stickers for Telegram
This may be the main problem. Unlike traditional stickers or GIFs, animated stickers require a series of requirements that are not available to inexperienced users. To create an animated sticker, professional tools and advanced knowledge are required, plus it will not do any good to use a video to turn it into a sticker.
Unlike GIFs, which are based on a succession of raster images, animated stickers are based on vectors, so in order to create one we need to work in vectors. This implies the use and creation of vectorized images, something that has nothing to do with photographs, but that extremely optimizes the final result as we have been able to verify.
Taking these requirements into account, it is possible that the growth of animated sticker libraries will be more limited than that of traditional stickers, although there are already several packs so that we can express our emotions with movement.
If you are interested in seeing how to create an animated sticker for Telegram You can take a look at the official documentation that explains the plugin that must be installed in After Effect in order to export to the format accepted by the service.