.TGS

📌 At most, the .TGS data file arrangement serves for storing animated stickers applied and opened up by Telegram, a powerful cross-platform messaging platform. The .TGS wrapped stickers are saved in the Telegram Sticker layout and hold animations that users may eventually append to their messages.

Indeed, Telegram offers the animated stickers feature to enable you to enhance outcome messages with animations beyond static plain graphics. Initially the service employed .WEBP images for stickers but since July 2019 implemented the .TGS extension pattern methodology (build 5.9 of the project), which may embrace effects-saturated sticker animations at smaller file sizes and higher resolutions than the static .WEBP sticker files.

The .TGS file specification principle is established on the basement of the Lottie library, which renders finalized JSON-formatted content from Adobe After Effects animations. The current algorithm comprises a .JSON text entry eventually exported from an animation in Adobe After Effects suite (with the Bodymovin-TG module) that is encoded with the gzip algorithm as a .GZIP data file item. The specified text object holds appropriate data regarding an animation in JSON logical representation, while the gzip encoding approach reduces the resulting file size.

By the way, animated .TGS packaged file stickers cannot be larger than 64 KB in size or longer than 3 seconds in length and must be looped. Miscellaneously, the final canvas size is restricted to 512x512 pixels and the sticker cannot go off of the area of the canvas.

How to open an .TGS file?

📌 In practice, the .TGS file stickers are not expected and suggested to be revealed and opened with the Telegram suite. Instead, the .TGS files are traditionally only applied by Telegram users designing their own animated .TGS tailored sticker packs to be afterwards appended to the messaging service. If you designed a .TGS animated sticker pack file, you are obliged to send the /newanimated instruction to the @stickers bot, and after that send the .TGS file content with a 100x100 pixels ratio icon attached to successfully upload the pack to the Telegram service. After .TGS sample upload is finally completed, you can effortlessly use and share the designed .TGS sticker pack.

As a complementary tweak, you are permitted to open .TGS packs by decoding them with a traditional decoding utility that is compatible with the gzip schema, such as Apple Archive Utility, 7-Zip, Rar Zip Extractor Pro, StuffIt Deluxe, Zip File Unarchiver, Keka, Xarchive, or Corel WinZip. Moreover, in custom occasions the .TGS format is perfectly recognizable within Android and iOS operating platforms.