Animoji

Animoji are a collection of digital avatars created by Apple Inc., based upon symbols of animals and mythical creatures from their Apple Color Emoji typeface. Unlike standard emoji, Animoji are 3D models which can be custom-animated using facial motion capture to reflect the user's own facial expressions and utilize lip sync to seemingly speak audio messages recorded by the sender. The name is a portmanteau of "animated emoji", referring to this capability. Certain Animoji also use audio modulation features to alter the way the voice of the character sounds when recorded.

Animoji can be accessed from the iMessage app on compatible devices and can be embedded on top of users in FaceTime calls or on video recordings in Clips. A set of static expressions for each character, themselves based on other popular "smiley" emojis, are also available as a collection of iMessage stickers and are available on devices without Face ID support. Despite their similar appearance to standard emoji, Animoji have no correlation to the Unicode standard and are simply transmitted to other devices as image or video files.

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