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Telegram Animated Stickers format #187

Open vivienlacourba opened 5 years ago

vivienlacourba commented 5 years ago

The Telegram Team announced on July 6, 2019 their replacement of the GIF format.

From: https://telegram.org/blog/animated-stickers

We launched stickers back in January 2015. Since then, the Telegram sticker format has been adopted by other apps to reach a total of 2 billion people. Today we're introducing a new format for animated stickers. (...)

Smooth Animations, Tiny Size

Telegram engineers experimented with vector graphics, packaging methods and forbidden magic to create the Lottie-based .TGS format, in which each sticker takes up about 20-30 Kilobytes – six times smaller than the average photo.

Thanks to various optimizations, 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.

Open Platform

Naturally, animated stickers are a free platform. All artists are welcome to create new sets and share them with Telegram users.

Like its static predecessor, the Telegram animated sticker format is likely to become the new industry standard in messaging.

svgeesus commented 2 years ago

https://blog.jiayu.co/2019/07/telegram-animated-stickers/

Still seems restricted to a single platform. Basically Adobe After Effects animations exported in JSON format, so seemingly tied to a single authoring environment.