Twitch Emote MakerAnimated loops that pass the upload form.

Most people who give up on animated emotes don’t give up on the art. They give up on the form. Twitch wants square GIFs, at most 60 frames, each manual size under 512 KB, no more than three flashes in a second, and a first frame that works as a thumbnail. Miss one and the upload just fails, usually without telling you which rule you broke.

I built this so the boring part is done for you. Every emote is drawn as an 8-frame loop, sliced in your browser, sized to 112, 56 and 28 px, and squeezed under the limit. If a file is too big we cut the palette from 256 to 128 to 64 colors first and only then drop every other frame — and the check panel tells you which one happened.

1. 1
   Upload or design

   Upload 1–3 pictures of you or your mascot (front view required), or answer five questions and pick one of four drafts.

2. 2
   Lock the character

   We draw a character sheet: three views and six expressions. You confirm it. From now on every emote is drawn from this sheet.

3. 3
   Pick your moves

   Choose up to 8 of 16 presets — Hi, GG, LOL, Hype, Love, Sad, Rage, Sip, Sleep, Facepalm, No, Clap, Shock, Sweat, Dance, Think — or write your own move.

4. 4
   Download

   Preview each emote at the real 28 px size in a fake chat line, set the speed, then download one zip with every Twitch size and the check results.

• Animated GIF at 112, 56 and 28 px for manual upload, each under 512 KB.
• One 512 px animated GIF for Twitch’s auto-resize option, under 1 MB.
• Static PNGs at 112, 56 and 28 px from the clearest frame — these work even if you are not Affiliate yet.
• A first frame chosen on purpose: the loop starts at the peak of the move, so the thumbnail shows the expression, not a blank pose.
• The same emote at 128 px for Discord and 7TV and 112 px for BetterTTV, in their own folders.

Speed is yours to pick: slow (160 ms per frame), normal (120 ms) or fast (80 ms). Eight frames at normal speed is just under one second, which reads as a loop in chat rather than a stutter.

Only Twitch Affiliates and Partners can upload animated emotes. That’s Twitch’s rule, not ours, and no file format gets around it. If you are not Affiliate yet, use the static PNGs now and keep the GIFs for later.

AI results vary. A hand can sprout a sixth finger in frame 3, or a word can come out misspelled. Every emote can be redone on its own for 1 credit, and you see it animated before you download anything.

Group photos come out mixed. Use one person or one character per picture. And don’t upload someone else’s face or a character you don’t own — Twitch rejects those emotes anyway.

At 28 px, a full-body character is a smudge. Twitch’s own guidance pushes for big faces and simple shapes, so emote recipes ask for a bust shot, bold outlines and a big readable expression. We add a thin white outline after slicing so the emote separates from both dark and light chat themes.

Flashing is checked automatically. If brightness flips sharply more than three times in a second, the panel marks the file so you can slow it down or pick a calmer move before Twitch’s reviewers do.