While everyone is on fire with profile images disappearing, have a new sticker to show your surprise of thinking you just got blocked.

On that note, I am sure this will be fixed pretty fast.

See
It's already fixed
Almost like it never happened at all.

This week on "Seth does shit you're not really all that interested in"

I have implemented a 3D render for the background, with a fog in the background.

I have also adjusted camera movement lightly to make it look like you're going down a hallway.

Additionally I created more bullet spawn locations that are not the boss, and created some tracking for them to pinpoint the character as well, so that they put you in a bit of a tighter position.

Sound effects and the lot are still there, I just disabled audio on the recording.

The bug where the character still shoots a bit after death I have not looked into addressing yet.

Jashin-chan Dropkick S2 anime key visual.

Create and submit 3 vector-based animated stickers before June, 7 11:59 PM and get a chance to win $1,500 or more. Authors of the best stickers will join the pool of permanent Telegram artists.

You will need:

1. Any vector graphics editor that allows exporting vector objects to Adobe After Effects for turning them into animations.
2. Adobe After Effects.
3. The Bodymovin-TG plugin, a fork of Bodymovin for Adobe After Effects that can be used to export animations to .TGS, the Telegram animated stickers format.

Technical requirements:

- Sticker/canvas size must be 512х512 pixels.
- Sticker objects must not leave the canvas.
- Animation length must not exceed 2-3 seconds.
- The animation must be looped.
- The size of your animated sticker must not exceed 64 KB.
- You must not use the following Adobe After Effects functionality when creating the animation: Expressions, Masks, Mattes, Layer Effects, Images, Solids, Texts, 3D Layers, Merge Paths, Star Shapes, Gradient Strokes, Repeaters, Time Stretching, Time Remapping, Auto-Oriented Layers. Using any of these tools will make it impossible to export your animation with Bodymovin-TG.

Are you ready to upload your stickers?

Looking into the requirements of creating animated stickers on telegram,
I can say with certainty, that animating anime related content will be really tough for me and take up to days for a single file.

I don't own Adobe After Effects, and have not tried using it before either, so there will be a skill learning curve.
As it stands with these requirements, I would need to redraw the character using vector art, which I still need to get a better understanding of to do properly. And then morph the character into the animation I would want it to do, or create each frame individually as vector art.

The filesize might also prove problematic, as simple vector anime art normally sits at about 30 - 40kb a file without any animations. Adding animations or creating new frames will bump up that filesize making it go past its max filesize.

From my side I don't think telegrams implementation on how they're aproaching this is bad
I am just not really happy with the limitations they're applying on top of it.
Normal sticker filesize limitations are 512kb, but the animated files need to be tiny. I get that telegram might want people to optimize, but they're also barring complexity with all their restrictions that they're applying to it.

Any ways, we'll see where this goes. I might take a stab at it and post progress updates if I ever do attempt it.
But don't expect this type of content from this channel at this time.

Example vector art (By johnprestongc)
The benefits of vector art are that you can scale them up without loss of quality
So you could have this on your screen with 50x zoom, and it will still look as crisp as it was when it was small

To open this file, you can just use your web browser to preview it. Google chrome definitely works.

I'm a bit behind on Stickers
I was being an alcohol all of last weekend and forgot about them uwu

I've moved the pack banner to the back of the pack for now
Planning to update it properly like all other packs in due time, for now it's on hold (unless I feel like doing it later after work)

For those that are new

Crossdress 👏 While 👏 Programming

With the newest update to Telegram, I can enable comments on the posts, so me creating some method of communication is no longer as required.

The downside of this is that I have no control over which posts get the "comments" button or not.
I hope that going forward the functionality gets expanded for me to only allow it on Image and video posts, and not stickers / text only posts.

I will keep this functionality on for now, just to see how it goes, however I'll need to limit posts when creating updates so that I don't flood the channel with "comment" buttons.

It does seem like there is a bug with the button requiring you to press it twice though, I can't really do anything about that

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I am aware of the discussion group feature, I don't plan on implementing that right now.

I've thought about it a bit
I won't be using the bot for comments at this time, as it's a bit of a rough implementation, and could provide me with better management tools, and currently feels like it's half broken, I'll wait to see it working the way I want it to work on other channels before giving it a go.

On another note, for those of you that have been around more than a year, might know of this, but for those that are new, there is a charity event that will be starting again in about 17 days. I implore you to check it out and participate if you feel the need to do a Final Fantasy V challenge run. I participated last year and had a lot of fun, however I am giving it a break this year as FF XIV Shadowbringers release is around the corner as well.

More information can be found here.
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Funds raised go to childsplay, even if you're not planning on donating, playing will improve the campaigns publicity and get more people to join. If you don't plan on playing, I would appreciate it if you spread the message.

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