# Plugin for animated stickers

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-animated-stickers/123212>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [July 17, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-animated-stickers/123212 "2019-07-17T16:30:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-animated-stickers/123212/1 "2019-07-17T16:30:56Z")

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Discourse could have a plugin that adds a new emoji picker for animated stickers.

There is a open format where animated stickers can be defined by a json file called lottiefiles.

> Lottie is a library for Android, iOS, Web, and Windows that parses [Adobe After Effects](http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects.html) animations exported as json with [Bodymovin](https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-web) and renders them natively on mobile and on the web!
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> For the first time, designers can create **and ship** beautiful animations without an engineer painstakingly recreating it by hand. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words so here are 13,000:
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> ![animation](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/c/ecdc1b8942efd8fc95a6b8a87e90636e075292fc.gif)

Recently Telegram launched Telegram Animated Stickers, building on the same technology and using a the `.tgs` file format:

> **[Animated Stickers Done Right](https://telegram.org/blog/animated-stickers)**
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> 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.

All the tools to create those in After Effects are open source: [GitHub - TelegramMessenger/bodymovin-extension: Bodymovin-tg — After Effects extension for exporting Telegram animated stickers. · GitHub](https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/bodymovin-extension)

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The web player for the files is here: [https://lottiefiles.com/web-player](https://lottiefiles.com/web-player)

The plugin would add support for either `tgs` or lottie `json` files (tgs is just a gzipped lottie json) in here:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/c/3c65bfc0e6bb9e0356c5ac6d02d56e3e1312cace.png)

and a new emoji picker in here

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/5/055567331666aae0f94fe3b46cc43078b2953ebf.png)

which pops the new animated stickers picker:

[https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/a/0a7898c871e8500675e65406a5453cef5892d0cf.mp4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/a/0a7898c871e8500675e65406a5453cef5892d0cf.mp4)

Admins can find lottiefiles easily at [https://lottiefiles.com/search?q=emoji](https://lottiefiles.com/search?q=emoji) and convert to tgs using [https://lottiefiles.com/preview/telegram](https://lottiefiles.com/preview/telegram)

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