Creation Guidelines
Animated Stickers
Animated stickers play animations when sent or received, when chats are opened, or when tapped.
Requirements
Image
| Main Image | |
|---|---|
| Quantity | 1 |
| Size | 240 x 240 |
| File Format | .png(APNG) |
| Animated Sticker Images | |
| Quantity | Either 8, 16, or 24 |
| Size | 320 x 270 *Max |
| File Format | .png(APNG) |
| Chat Thumbnail Icon | |
| Quantity | 1 |
| Size | 96 x 74 |
| File Format | .png |
| Quantity | Size | File Format | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Image | 1 | 240 x 240 | .png(APNG) |
| Animated Sticker Images | Either 8, 16, or 24 |
320 x 270 *Max | .png(APNG) |
| Chat Thumbnail Icon | 1 | 96 x 74 | .png |
Other regulations
- Select your number of animated stickers from the Manage Stickers page. You can change this number freely before submission.
- Generate your animated sticker images with an APNG creation tool such as APNG Assembler. Use ".png" for the filename extension.
- Animated stickers' image files must adhere to the two following criteria.
- Their dimensions must be within 320 x 270.
- Either the width or height of the image must be at least 270 pixels.
Ex:
If the width is below 270 pixels, the height should be at least 270 pixels.
If the height is below 270 pixels, the width must be at least 270 pixels. - Loops: 1 – 4 loops per sticker whose combined length does not exceed 4 seconds.
- Playback time: Up to 4 seconds per sticker.
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Each animated sticker may have between 5 and 20 frames.
- Note: If creating APNG files with a creation tool such as APNG Assembler, repeated identical images may become combined as a single frame.
- Files that use the same data for all frames won't animate properly and will result in an upload error. - Please ensure that your files are in RGB color space.
- The maximum file size for each image is 1 MB. If submitting all images in a single ZIP file, make sure the ZIP file is 60 MB or smaller.
- When creating stickers, please keep in mind that the first image of the APNG will be displayed as a static image on LINE STORE and the LINE Sticker Shop.
- Image backgrounds must be transparent.
- The small play symbol found in the top-right corner of the chat thumbnail icon is added automatically. Please do not add it yourself.
Sample Images
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■ Main Image
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■ Chat Thumbnail Icon
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■ Animated Sticker Images
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PNG File (Frame) Creation
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1. Create PNG file (frame)
Make sure the PNG files fit the designated dimensions (Up to 320 x 270 pixels).
Make sure that all frames in the APNG do not exceed the maximum animated sticker image dimensions.
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2. Delete the margins
Delete all non-animated parts of the file.
Text
| 1. Sticker Title | |
|---|---|
| Character Limits | Up to 40 characters |
| 2. Creator | |
| Character Limits | Up to 50 characters |
| 3. Sticker Description | |
| Character Limits | Up to 160 characters |
| 4. Copyright | |
| Character Limits | Up to 50 characters |
| Character Limits | |
|---|---|
| 1. Sticker Title | Up to 40 characters |
| 2. Creator | Up to 50 characters |
| 3. Sticker Description | Up to 160 characters |
| 4. Copyright | Up to 50 characters |
*Asian language characters and some symbols count as 2 characters each.
Sample Images
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■Sticker Title and Creator
■Sticker Title, Creator, and Sticker Description
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■ Copyright and Sticker Description
■ Copyright
Important points to consider
1. Animation
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This section covers how to use Adobe Creative Cloud when creating animated stickers.
- Links go to external Adobe Creative Station site
(Japanese language only)
2. APNG File Creation
- This 90 second overview covers APNG file creation in five simple steps.
- Step 1: Trim margins
- Step 2: Arrange frame order
- Step 3: Adjust file sizes
- Step 4: Create APNG file
- Step 5: Check APNG
Recommended Stickers
- Stickers that are easy to use in daily conversation and communication.
- Stickers that consist of easily understandable expressions, messages, and illustrations.
Non-Recommended Stickers
- Stickers that are difficult to use in daily conversation, such as objects and scenery.
- Stickers that have poor visibility, such as pictures that are too long or full-length illustrations of tall characters.
- Sets that significantly lack variety, such as stickers made up purely of pale colors or strings of numbers.
- Content that offends public order and morality, is suggestive of under-age drinking or smoking, contain sexual or violent imagery, or may fuel nationalism.
Other Notes
- Stickers for sale may not be used for advertising purposes. Please do not include any form of advertisement in the sticker images, titles, and text descriptions, such as the announcements of product release dates, or submit stickers featuring only corporate logos.
- Requesting personal information or user IDs from customers is strictly prohibited.
Content that mentions any internet service, messaging app, or similar service, or that includes any characters related to such services may not be sold in the Creators Market. - For more details, please see the sticker review guidelines.