Beginner Guide

Beginner Guide — From Sign-Up to Your First 24 Emoticons, on One Page

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Beginner Guide — From Sign-Up to Your First 24 Emoticons, on One Page

New to Emoticon Studio? This one page is all you need. We cut the feature tour and kept only the steps that take you to your first finished set of 24 emoticons. It takes about 3 minutes to read.

What can I do here?

You don't need to draw. Describe your character in one line and the AI draws it for you.

  • Still stickers — batch-generate 24 emotional expressions with AI (ready for OGQ submission)
  • Animated stickers — create animated GIFs in the Motion Studio
  • Post-processing tools — background removal, image splitting, and GIF conversion in one place

Getting started takes just 4 steps

Once you enter the studio, a wizard guides you in order. Each step asks you to do exactly one thing.

  1. Sign in — one click with your Google or Kakao account. Signing up is free.
  2. Define your character — describe it in one line, like "a white cat that refuses to go to work." You can also upload a reference photo.
  3. Pick scenarios — 24 emotional situations like joy, sadness, and anger are recommended automatically. Just pick the ones you like.
  4. Generate — the AI draws all 24 images. You can regenerate only the frames you don't like.

You only need 2 things

  • A Google or Kakao account — for signing in.
  • A way to generate with AI — 5 free server generations a day, just for signing up (one image at a time)! For unlimited, faster runs, get the Signature pass.

Server generation is the easiest path. There is no setup at all — no API key issuance, no configuration — so you go straight from sign-in to character description to the generate button. Free members get 5 cuts a day; the Signature pass removes the daily cap and generates several images at once.

Drawing skill, Photoshop, and design knowledge are all unnecessary.

If your character drifts between cuts — how to keep it consistent

Each of the 24 cuts is drawn independently from your reference photo + character description. The key to consistency is giving the AI an anchor it can interpret the same way every time.

  1. Always fill in the text description along with the photo (most important) — spell out colors, clothes, accessories and body shape, e.g. "a chubby cat with an orange body, white belly, and black horn-rimmed glasses". A photo alone gets re-interpreted differently on every cut.
  2. Use one large, clean shot of the character only — busy backgrounds, tiny characters, or multiple characters cause drift.
  3. Keep it to 3–4 distinctive features — patterns, gradients and props multiply the drift. Start simple for your first pack.
  4. Regenerate only the cuts that drifted — no need to redo all 24; fix individual cuts with regeneration or the touch-up editor.

Models differ too — the GPT Image family (server generation) handles references in edit mode and keeps characters most consistent. Note that redrawing your reference in a flat vector sticker style (rather than copying its art style) is intentional — it matches the OGQ-approved look.

What happens after I finish?

Your finished set of 24 is automatically validated against the OGQ submission specs (740×640 PNG + main + tab images). Download it as a ZIP and upload it to OGQ Creators Studio as-is. Review usually takes 2–4 weeks, and once approved, sales begin on Naver OGQ Market.

Frequently asked questions

Q. Can I really do this without drawing skills? — Yes. Write a character description and the AI draws it. There are multiple approval cases from non-designers.

Q. Do AI-made emoticons get approved? — They do. OGQ reviews the quality and copyright of the result, not the tool used.

Q. Does it cost money? — Signing up is free, and server generation gives you up to 5 cuts a day at no cost (one image at a time, 20–60s each). Want more, faster? The Signature pass (one-time payment, lifetime) removes the daily cap and generates several images at once with no queue.

Start creating now

One line of character idea gives you 24 draft stickers.

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