Emojis are an integral part of modern communication and the range of available images is increasing, also this year. A few days ago, the Unicode Consortium introduced new emojis, and Google took advantage of this momentum to introduce a completely new format that they may want to establish in the medium term: it became a collection of emojis. animated emoticons published, which you can download and use for free.

Many people may have prepared an ever-changing selection of 20-30 emojis that are used over and over again, at least that’s my case and I think the “talkers” too. However, only a few users are likely to use the large collection of hundreds or, with modifications, even thousands of small images. Google knows this too and has now taken the most popular emojis and spiced them up with animations.

The Google emoji team has included over 100 emojis in a new animated emoji collection and given them really nice and appropriate short animations. The animations are mostly predictable, which isn’t really surprising given the standardized meaning. About him emoji page you see the static images and when you move the cursor over them or touch the smartphone, the animation starts. Many people probably have a certain image in their head just before the animation starts, and often in my case it was animated in exactly the same way. He says that the animations are successful.

Google has been using animated emojis in Google Messages for a few weeks, but now wants to promote their spread and could speculate that they will one day be included in the standard in an expanded form. At least that explains why these emojis are crafted and then made available for all users to download for free.