In addition, we’re launching a separate contest for UI animation designers.

March 10-24, $10000 in prizes.

The goal is to create a simple and stylish animation that Telegram could use in its UI to explain one of the following ideas to users:

- Telegram can be used on a desktop.
- Double check mark means the message is read.
- Users can switch between recording voice and video messages.

You can come up with an animated character or keep it as simple as possible. You are welcome to make a 2-color animation or use more colors. To take part, send one or more Lottie-compatible JSON-documents and corresponding GIFs to @design_bot. The Lottie-compatible JSONs are typically crafted in Adobe After Effects.

Best of luck!

Thank you for the designs contributed so far. We will stop accepting designs for the competition at 11:59 PM CET today.

We have selected the 10 winners of the March animations competition.

@Khoroshok
@O_Grinko
@denis_klyuchnikov
@dissolve09
@pototsky_a
@ktolstaia
@daria_khil
@VoinanMiir
@ssiritsa
@Nastya_Stoyanova

Each of the winners will receive $1,000 from Telegram. Congratulations!

We'll be posting all the animations of the winners in the course of the next week.

We’ve selected the 15 winners of the March design competition. The order in the list below is not important as none of the 15 designs seemed significantly better than the rest.

@grshn
@Niccolo_Makelele
@idanial
@vpznc
@ivanliana
@rakeda
@dmitkolom
@golaktionov
@relictos
@podlbli
@shchuchkin
@edu918
@Mihaylenko_SG
@hsnvrsln
@yakovlevv_design

We will be publishing the designs submitted in the following days, starting with the winners’ works.

Each of the winners will receive $1,000 from Telegram. Congratulations!

To make it even more fun, we've added 8 second places, $800 each:

@nazariosnz
@depoon
@userroot
@Novov
@hudishkin
@anton_pepelyaev
@utkinilia
@taiyo1803

We'll keep rewarding the best contributors. Thanks again for taking part in this contest.

Another winner is @pvashenko. Due to a technical issue, Pavel was not mentioned among the winners published above. To make up for our oversight, we award him with $2000. Congratulations!

Another winner of the design competition is @idanial. Although suggesting new features was not required by the contest rules, we liked @idanial's unconventional approach to the task:

Great redesign suggestion by @ivanliana, who is also a winner in the Telegram design competition:

Suggested by @rakeda

Suggested by @edu918

Suggested by @edu918

Suggested by @hsnvrsln

Suggested by @userroot

Suggested by @dmitkolom

Suggested by @golaktionov