hey everybody it's Robert from Kapwing and have you ever noticed while you're scrolling through
your discord servers that some of them have animated icons ones that look sort of like
this they're pretty cool today i'm going to show you how to make an animated server icon that you
can add to your server and discord it takes just a few steps so let's hop right into this tutorial
so one of the first things to know before adding your animated server icon is that this is a level
one perk on a discord server that means that your discord server is going to need a couple of boosts
before you're able to add the animated server icon you can get boosts by signing up for discord nitro
it's their monthly subscription service it's 9.99 a month and when you sign up you get two
boosts automatically so you can see here on the point server we've got no boost so i'm going to
add two to the server i just signed up for nitro and we'll be able to get started with our animated
server icon so let's go ahead and boost the server so i'll say two and then next and boost two times
and there we go so you see here level one is now unlocked just like a video game or something
and we're able to go ahead and add our animated server icon now that we've boosted our server and
we have the animated icons unlocked i'm going to head over here to the discord server icon maker
on kapwing.com this is a template that we've built on Kapwing that is the perfect size for discord
server icons whether they're animated or static and you'll see here it says 512 by 512 pixels
that is the recommended size for these icons so i will drop a link to this template down in the
description but we'll start by just clicking make it and then you'll see here we already have some
graphics that are built in but i'm going to be adding my own graphics today so i actually have a
kapwing logo that we use for a lot of things i can just throw in here
and this obviously isn't an animated image it's just a static picture
so let's animate it so that it looks a little more intricate for our server icon so i'll click on
my image here and then in the right sidebar here you'll see this animate tab so i'll click on that
and then we have several different animation options for static images like this but i'm
going to go with this one hue rotate which makes the image go through a bunch of different colors
and you may notice here there's still those extra layers from our template so i'm going to
go ahead and delete those layers out so that they don't come into my final project here
so again i just click the animate tab and i go to hue rotate and we can slow it down even we can
speed it up i think that's a little fast i like how it looks when it's slow like this just slowly
cycling through the colors so i think this is kind of a cool server icon it was really easy for
me to make and i can just quickly get it up now that my server is boosted so you'll see there's
this big red export video button in the top right corner these server icons do need to be uploaded
to discord as gifs so i'll click the arrow here and i'll click export as gif and then kabling is
going to take just a few moments to process that you'll have no watermark as long as you're signed
in and i'll go ahead and fast forward to when it's ready all right it looks like our file is
now finished exporting and you can see the gif is looking good here in kabuk so i'll just go ahead
and click download now something that's good to know about these server icons is you can bring
any mp4 or image or gif into kapwing and as long as you're exporting it at this correct
512x512 size that's recommended for discord it should work as your discord server icon so if you
want to make a moment from a youtube video your server icon or if you already have a gif that you
want to use as your server icon just throw it into our template here and export it as a gif
so i'm going to head over to discord now to change my icon so currently the kapwing server just has
this static image of the kopinkat uh you will need to be an admin to change a server icon so
i'll right click on the Kapwing server and i'll go down to server settings and then overview
and then right up here at the top you'll see change icon you've got the image that
you're currently using so i'll click that and i will click on this gif that i just created
and there i can already see it's added in and it's rotating through the colors
you click this green save changes button that appears at the bottom of the screen
and your new animated server icon is in and ready to go and all of the users inside of your server
should see it so i will click escape here and then when i mouse over the kapwing server in my
list now you'll see that it's cycling through the colors so it does work and we're all set so it was
just a few clicks today using the kapwing discord server icon template and we were able to animate
this image and make it really cool and something that stands out in the server list and that's
pretty much all there is to it boost your server to level two using discord nycho or get somebody
in your server to do it create a gif using the discord server icon template on kaupung.com and
then add it to your server for everybody to enjoy if you found this tutorial helpful today please
consider subscribing to our channel or dropping a like down below we're making new tutorials all the
time on how you can get the most out of platforms like discord tiktok and everything else that's
used by modern creators this has been robert from Kapwing and we'll see you in the next video