Create Character Art for Sticker Packs
A sticker pack lives or dies on expressive range — one character across 12–24 emotions, reactions, and gestures. The bottleneck is consistency: if sticker #4 (laughing) does not look like the same character as sticker #19 (crying), the pack feels unfinished. Generate a model sheet once, then re-run the AI for each expression locked against the model sheet. Telegram caps stickers at 512×512px, iMessage at 618×618, WhatsApp at 512×512 — well within EZ Character's ~1MP full-resolution output, available on every tier, which downsamples crisply.
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Pick the emotional vocabulary
Map the 12–24 reactions your audience actually uses: yes, no, laughing, crying, thinking, shocked, sleepy, angry, party, heart-eyes, side-eye, shrug, thumbs-up, mind-blown, drinking coffee, working, waving, idle. Curate before prompting.
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Generate the model sheet
Run the multi-angle pack on your hero pose — front, three-quarter, profile. This is your character lock; every sticker is graded against it.
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Re-render per expression
Loop the generator with the model sheet as input and one expression prompt at a time. The free tier (40 credits every month) takes 2–3 days for a 24-sticker pack; a subscription knocks it out in an hour.
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Export with transparent backgrounds
Stickers need PNG with alpha. Crop tight to the character bounding box plus 6–8% padding so Telegram and iMessage do not clip arms or hair. Add a subtle 2–3px white outline if the pack will be used on dark backgrounds.
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Pack and submit
Telegram: upload via @Stickers bot, max 512×512px, ≤512KB PNG. iMessage: build a Sticker Pack iOS app target in Xcode. WhatsApp: use a third-party packager — 512×512 WebP, ≤100KB per sticker. Each platform has different size budgets; export master at 1024px and downscale.
- Stickers compete in a tiny window — the silhouette read at 64px is everything. Bold outlines and high-contrast color win.
- Avoid text inside the sticker artwork — chat apps render at small sizes where text becomes mush. Reaction stickers do not need captions.
- Asymmetric poses (one arm up, head tilted) read more "alive" than symmetric ones — symmetric stickers feel like emoji.
- Build a "tray icon" sticker (front-facing, centered, neutral expression) — Telegram and iMessage both display it as the pack thumbnail.
- Test the pack with your target audience for 1 week before launch — you will find 3–4 missing reactions you did not anticipate.
- Crop tight — every pixel inside the sticker bounds is rendering real estate; whitespace is wasted.
- For iMessage, the App Store reviews sticker pack apps within 24–72 hours — submit early if you want a launch date.
Frequently asked questions
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