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#dev #stickers #thelionking #animated

If anyone had any doubts about whether I'm crazy, here's the ultimate proof. An absolutely ridiculous amount of effort went into fitting 12 movie-quality frames preserving the drawn animation look of fluffy grinning Simba. Fun fact: this message takes more bytes than were left out of 65536 byte limit for Telegram stickers.

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Today I learned
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Today I learned that Telegram stickers have hidden computational complexity restriction which is enforced during sticker upload. If your sticker is too complex (like having 4 levels of precomps inside precomps inside precomps), the sticker bot will say that the file format is wrong, which is a lie.

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My first rotoscoping experiment. Resulted in more realistic movement compared to the usual smoothing between keyframes. Sadly I lack dog ears and tail, so this is limited to arms, body and head.

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The result of crazy algorithms for generating pixel-art animations with old CRT effect. You have no idea what I had to go through to make this sticker possible. I don't think it's possible to reduce the sticker's size by a single bit without spending 10x more time on optimization. Whether I'll go that route, still unknown.

Anyway... my pixel art stickers are superior to any pixel art stickers you may have seen! The have pixel overflow to avoid sub-pixel black holes, they have strong horizontal blur along scanlines, the have soft vertical blur across scanlines, they have the scanline effect itself, with every pixel consisting of 2 horizontal lines on top and bottom, and 3 vertical lines on left, middle and right. Colors are adjusted with gamma effect to restore original colors lost to the partially transparent black effects.

On top of this, this sticker's size is 65,494 bytes out of 65,536 allowed. I even had to sacrifice my pretty file header with my name in it. Oh well.