Twitch animated emote maker
Clip the moment chat will spam, frame it tight and download a 112×112 animated emote within Twitch's limits.
Output
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Three seconds or less keeps the motion fluid inside the frame cap.
Drag the frame over the picture to choose what ends up in the emote. Grab a corner to zoom in on a face or a detail.
Pick a file to start.
Read this before you pick a clip
Twitch turns down animated emotes that flash or flicker rapidly, out of care for viewers with photosensitive conditions. Strobing lights, quick cuts between bright and dark frames, and screen flashes from games are the usual reasons an emote comes back rejected. Nothing on this page can detect that for you, so choose a moment with smooth motion.
Sizes and frame limits
An animated emote is a square GIF. Twitch works from a 112×112 master and scales it down for chat, and caps animated emotes at 60 frames. This page exports the 112-pixel version, keeps it under 512 KB so it satisfies both of Twitch's upload modes, and sets the frame rate from your trim: three seconds comes out at 20 frames a second.
Where good emotes come from
The ones a community actually spams tend to come from the stream itself. The jump at a horror game, the slow turn to camera after a terrible play, the fist in the air. Pull the moment from a VOD or a clip, frame it on the face, and leave the background out. At chat size an emote is about as tall as a line of text, and the face is the only part anyone will see.
Questions
Who can upload animated emotes?
Animated emotes are a feature for Affiliate and Partner channels. The file itself can be made by anyone.
Do I need to make the 56 and 28 pixel sizes?
Not when you upload a single GIF and let Twitch resize it. If you use the manual upload option instead, you will need all three sizes.