AI GIF STICKER MAKER · FREE WHILE IN BETA
GIF sticker maker
One photo, one caption, one looping sticker. The tool draws a consistent character, lays out eight frames on a sprite sheet, then cuts and encodes a transparent GIF in your browser.
Character sheet
Sprite sheet
Animated GIF
Free while in beta · 20 AI images a day · the GIF loops at 200 ms per frame with a transparent background.
Your character sheet, sprite sheet and finished GIF appear here.
How to make an animated sticker
- Choose a clear photo of one adult and, if you like, name the details that must survive — glasses, a hat, a hoodie.
- Press Make character sheet. Check that the character looks like the person; if not, regenerate before going further.
- Write the caption and describe the action in one sentence: “jumping with both arms up, then landing with a tired sigh”.
- Press Make sprite sheet. Eight frames come back in a 4 × 2 grid, all with the same caption.
- Press Build animated GIF, then download the 480 px or 240 px file.
Step two is the one worth repeating. A character sheet that does not look right produces a sprite sheet that does not look right, and no amount of frame cutting fixes a face that drifted.
Why this pipeline holds a character together
One reference, never the photo again
After the character sheet exists, every later step sees only the sheet. The original photo is never re-read, so lighting and camera angle cannot re-enter and pull the face away from the design.
All frames in one generation
The eight poses are drawn together in a single pass. Consistency is not enforced afterwards by an alignment algorithm — it is a property of drawing one sheet instead of eight images.
Cutting and encoding locally
Frame extraction, white removal, alignment and GIF encoding all run in this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded for the last step, and the result is yours to download immediately.
GIF sticker questions
How does a photo become an animated sticker?
Three steps. First the photo is redrawn as a Q-version character sheet — three full-body views and four expressions — so the character is fixed before anything moves. Then one sprite sheet is drawn: eight equal cells showing a continuous action, each with the same caption. Finally the sheet is cut into eight frames, aligned on the character, and encoded as a looping GIF with a transparent background.
Why eight frames instead of a video?
Because a sticker is a loop, not a clip. Eight frames at 200 ms each is 1.6 seconds — long enough to read as motion, short enough to loop without a visible jump, and small enough that chat apps accept it. The sprite-sheet approach is also what keeps the character identical across frames: all eight poses are drawn in one pass, so there is nothing to drift.
What makes the frames line up instead of jittering?
Each cell is measured after its white background is removed, and the artwork is aligned by its own bounding box — feet on the same line, centre on the same x — rather than by the cell grid. Poses with different silhouettes would otherwise bounce around even though the grid never moved.
Can I change the caption?
Yes, the caption is drawn by the model into every frame, in bold white letters with a black outline. Keep it short — one to four words reads at sticker size. Because the model renders the text rather than a font overlay, keeping it short is also what keeps the lettering clean.
What photo should I use?
One adult, facing the camera, evenly lit, with the head and shoulders clear. The character sheet inherits hair, glasses, hats and clothing from the photo, so mention those in the optional “signature look” field if you want them kept. Photos of children are not accepted.
Is the GIF really transparent?
Yes. The white sheet is knocked out frame by frame, and the GIF is written with a reserved transparent palette slot, so the sticker sits on any chat background. The preview shows a checkerboard for exactly that reason — what looks transparent there is transparent in the file.
Is it free?
Free while in beta. One finished sticker uses three generations — the character sheet, the sprite sheet, and nothing extra for the GIF encoding, which runs in your browser — and the daily limit counts those two AI images against the same 20-a-day allowance as the other image tools.