Google Messages is adding support for full-screen emoji message effects. Just send an emoji to see its corresponding effect.

moving jaw, lips, as well as mouth movements like frowning and smiling.” 9 to 5 Mac reports. Options for emoji include unicorns, poop, robots, aliens, chickens, monkeys, foxes, and cats.

And it looks like we're about to get another fun new feature: animated emoji. We've heard that this one is in development from multiple rumours, and the latest one adds fuel to the rumour machine ...

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The #1 movie of 2024 ("Inside Out 2"), as well as #3 ("Despicable Me 4"), and #7 ("Kung Fu Panda") are animated features ... And somehow, Sony's 2017 "The Emoji Movie" is now a hit.

Anderson says that the team has been working to “dramatically refresh” these emojis to create something that is “innately Fluent” by option for 3D designs and animations, moving away for 2D.

People using Google Messages for a long time must have triggered one of the app’s Screen Effects – the full-screen animations that appear while entering specific phrases into the chat.