Bitmoji has nailed the concept of making adorable, eerily accurate cartoon avatars to text to your friends. Here’s how they did it. The other day, I texted a friend my Bitmoji, a lookalike cartoon ...

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Besides emoticons, Animoji on the iPhone X and GIFs, using Bitmoji strips is another fun way to communicate with others. Bitmoji are animated images created by users that resemble their appearance.

Emoji provide us with a whole new world of expressiveness when we’re online, but they aren’t exactly personal. Fortunately, Bitmoji allows us to customize our characters to create incredibly realistic ...

On an overcast morning in June, a dozen or so young illustrators and animators gather in the lunchroom at the Bitstrips offices, located in an unassuming industrial building in Toronto’s swiftly ...

You've probably seen a Bitmoji floating around on Snapchat, Facebook, or Instagram. You might even have the Bitmoji app. But what are these adorable full-sized avatars for, anyway? As it turns out, a ...