--- title: 'How to Make Emotes in 5 Minutes with Emote Lab' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=njgR-Inw26E' video_id: 'njgR-Inw26E' date: 2026-08-06 duration_sec: 695 --- # How to Make Emotes in 5 Minutes with Emote Lab > Source: [How to Make Emotes in 5 Minutes with Emote Lab](https://youtube.com/watch?v=njgR-Inw26E) ## Summary This video is a first-impressions review and live tutorial of Emote Lab, a Steam software for creating animated emotes. The creator tests the tool live on Twitch, customizes a character to resemble themselves, and successfully exports an animated emote in under an hour, highlighting its intuitive interface and rapid workflow. ### Key Points - **Introduction to Emote Lab** [00:00] — The creator introduces Emote Lab, a Steam software for creating and animating emotes, which they discovered via Twitter and decided to test live. - **First Impressions and Interface** [00:30] — The tool loads a default character and offers customization options. The interface is intuitive, with a color bucket tool and sliders for adjusting features. - **Customization Features** [02:10] — Users can modify hair, ears, and other parts, and use sliders to tweak positions. The creator notes that while options are limited, sliders allow for unique creations. - **Animation and Movement** [03:45] — The software includes a variety of animations (e.g., typing, angry) and allows full-body movement, including hands and legs, which is useful for cropping and donation alerts. - **Color Picker and Limitations** [05:12] — A color picker is available, but there is no undo (Ctrl+Z), which the creator hopes will be added. Custom textures can be imported via a folder. - **Export Process** [07:37] — Export options include static image or animation, with settings for size (e.g., 112 gif, 16 fps) and viewport. Files are saved to Documents/EmoteLab/Export. - **Sharing and Documentation** [08:43] — Characters can be shared via a website, and the tool includes documentation for all assets. The creator emphasizes reading about rights and attribution. - **Uploading the Emote** [09:28] — The creator locates the exported animation, uploads it to Twitch, and adds attribution to the creator (zero x 4682). The emote is successfully uploaded. - **Final Verdict** [10:35] — Emote Lab is intuitive and accessible, allowing quick emote creation. It costs approximately $10 on Steam, and the creator recommends it for fast results. ### Conclusion Emote Lab is a user-friendly tool that enables quick creation of animated emotes, even for beginners, with a straightforward workflow from customization to export and upload. ## Transcript that allows you to create emotes and animate them very quickly. a bunch of videos about it on Twitter, so I had to buy it and actually try it. trying it out for the first time, live in front of my Twitch audience. And, and the results, basically, in less than an hour to have a brand new animated emote up that looks a little bit like me. All right, so this is the emote lab I've been seeing on Twitter. And we're going to do like a quick overview to see if it's intuitive. to give me any extra information in advance or anything. with Emote Lab maybe will be similar to yours. the whole goal of this software, which you can buy from steam, is that you can make animated emotes and, here So it's loads it in and then you can customize it, wow, pretty cool. At the bottom here we see character. 000. All right, let's do this. browse. There's some stuff that you can activate and. What happens if I turn it off while. Okay it resets if oh it resets when you turn it off okay. you want to go back to the default. Of course I'm trying to make a character that looks like me. I don't know how that works. There's a color bucket tool here. So we're going to scroll down until we see something that resembles, Or if it's going to be, it's probably going to be down here. And then we can go back to actually customizing everything. In under that list, it seems like you can switch like the type of browse, basically the type of anything type of ears and all that. And then here is where you really customize, like the, the position characters every week, this is pretty cool. So hair base hair doesn't seem to change much I guess this model has a lot of things on top of it that we might have to can I turn off? I wonder if I could, like, remove certain things. Let me quickly show you the animation. Get you excited? everything, and then you'll get access to all those animations pretty quick. if you scroll you can zoom out. No way. It's a full body. This is so cool. Apparently. That is so cool. So this is how you remove stuff with the dash for example here bang five here. if I want to remove it completely I would just put it on the dash. That's how you remove things. I don't know how I didn't figure that out. But then a wicked skinny type c u h All we can lower the eyelash. Totally cool that okay, you don't have, like, a ton of options. but you can modify the options that you already have with those sliders so that that allows you to create stuff that is pretty unique. We also realize that, yeah, you can scroll down to move your character. We have the hands, which is really, really nice. Also, the legs even move here. And I'm guessing this is probably going to have to do with the cropping So donation alerts. Let me go. Bonk. Okay, Copium And if we use like if I start scrolling, you see that there's a lot of animation. Oh, oh, this is so cute. Typing normal typing. Angry, your basic emotes, needs and more. This is so cool, though. you know, actual VTuber manner, which is, something that I'm not familiar with. Okay. I'm not done custom. I that's me. So we're going to continue. nervous that that peel meme right there. I think this kind of looks like me. It has the two little, little strands that I immediately start putting in my eyes. I don't know what this tab is. What is this tab? exactly like the parts that we have, you can color, like, individual brows. Does control Z or control Z work here? it doesn't. But we do have a color picker here. Oh yes that's cool Oh that's dope I like that color picker. Yes. Please add control Z I haven't seen the settings yet, And I want to color pick for the second one. Cool. are my eyes actually blue? Where the character has their mouth open. Oh, there we go. Yep, I like that. the hair. I think I'm going to set the hair black, so it kind of matches me. So it separates from the from the skin color. that it's the right thing, but I have no idea. and I'm not completely sure how to figure it out. I could just go back and see. Of course I have hair branch, hair framing, hair framing. Is this what I'm looking for? Yes. we need we need that control Z that's going to be the update I'm waiting for. No, not not an awful lot of options when it comes to adjusting stuff. Which is cool. Oh, yeah, that's going to be my my character. Let me see if I can kind of figure it out. custom textures, Open custom texture folder. Oh. I guess you can just modify and put whatever color or whatever I want to have like black hairstyles or just my hairstyles. So those were the cards that we saw in the options if you modify That's so cool. love that I love that okay. Okay. So we have the option under the export tab. We have the option between static image and animation And let's finally click export. Character Sampler three already exist. Oh, I almost clicked confirmed. Actually, let me cancel that now I'll enter a character name. It appears in the list, which is nice. And now we can export emote. All right. Now where did it exported? it goes under documents emote, lab export and you can change your save if you want to export in multiple size and all that, 112 gif, 16 fps. And then you have some other settings like your viewport settings, school model scale offset and all that you can check your character folder. So I can give my character to someone else and send it to someone else? there's a whole website. And you can browse assets on the website. Oh that's really cool that they actually made documentation on everything. It would actually help me out a lot, So every single asset that comes with it So if you're looking for something and you want to do, you know, control F There you go. What else do we have here? There's your log folder and all of that good stuff. Let's go ahead and find our animation in that save location. And would you look at that. I can immediately come here and go under animated emotes. Find that one. And just like that, an emote attribution. always best practice if you use a tool or something like that to have the name of the creator, which is, zero x 4682 before. And I don't know if they have a Twitch channel, but we'll look for it. We'll put it in there. and upload. Is it. Oh it's right there. Making emotes is like the easiest thing ever. I absolutely love it. Okay, well, so that's it for, emote Lab. It is very intuitive. and, anyone can just get it and start making their own stuff. that there's a hundred options for everything. I think it's more to encourage if you really, really want It allows you to, but you have a really good base for just getting emotes out really, really fast. I already have a brand new emote animated emote that if you're not super comfortable with like animation or whatever, you can also export just an image and then maybe edit that image. Make sure you read the documentation about like rights and attribution I will put a link in the description if you want to get it yourself. It is on steam and it's, $10 approximately.