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How to Make Free Animated Custom Discord Emotes

This guide walks you through how to create animated custom emote GIFs for Discord with MakeEmoji.com. It's easy and totally free!

Published April 10, 20234 min readBeginner friendly100% Free

Are you a Discord server owner? Do you want to create custom animated emojis for your your Discord community, but don't have professional design skills or want to pay high prices for custom-commissioned animated emotes?

No worries! MakeEmoji.com is the best way to easily create animated custom emojis for Discord -- and it's totally free.

Here's how to do it:

Choose image screenshot

1. Get your custom image - or choose one of MakeEmoji's default images

Go to MakeEmoji.com and scroll down to the default images. Click one to generate animated versions or upload your own file.

2. Add filters and effects

Use the dropdown menus to adjust colors, speed, and direction until your Discord emoji looks perfect.

Download animation screenshot

3. Click any animation to download

When you're satisfied, click an animation to download it as a 128 x 128 GIF ready for Discord.

Upload to Discord screenshot

4. Upload to Discord

Finally, on your Discord server, go to Server Settings. On the left sidebar, click Emoji, then Upload Emoji.

It's really that easy.