Gugugaga Penguin Discord Emote Pack: Create & Upload Guide

Why Gugugaga Penguin Makes Perfect Discord Emotes

Discord emotes work because they communicate emotion faster than words in a fast-moving chat. Gugugaga Penguin’s exaggerated chibi expressions — wide gray eyes, a yellow beak that can show shock, joy, or confusion — map perfectly onto the emotional vocabulary of Discord reactions. A well-designed Gugugaga emote pack becomes a conversational shorthand that your entire server adopts within days.

This guide covers the complete workflow: generating the base art, exporting the right file specs, and uploading to Discord.

Discord Emote Size Requirements

Discord has strict specifications for emoji uploads:

Type	Max Size	Format	Max File Size
Server emoji	128×128 px	PNG, GIF, JPG	256 KB
Animated emoji	128×128 px	GIF only	256 KB
Sticker	320×320 px	PNG or Apng	512 KB
Profile decoration	Varies	See Discord docs	—

All Gugugaga Penguin emotes should be exported as PNG-24 with transparency at 128×128 pixels.

12 Essential Expressions for Your Emote Pack

Design these 12 expressions for a complete conversational toolkit:

1. GugugagaHappy — Wide open beak, stars in eyes, flippers up
2. GugugagaLove — Eyes as hearts, blushing cheeks, beak curved up
3. GugugagaThink — One flipper raised to beak, eyes looking up
4. GugugagaCry — Tears streaming, beak quivering, sad eyes
5. GugugagaLaugh — Eyes closed, beak open wide, small laugh tears
6. GugugagaShock — Huge circular eyes, beak wide open in O shape
7. GugugagaShy — Eyes looking away, cheeks red, flippers covering face
8. GugugagaAngry — Eyebrows furrowed, beak tight, small steam puffs
9. GugugagaSleep — Eyes closed with Zzz, head drooped, peaceful
10. GugugagaWave — Friendly smile, one flipper raised high
11. GugugagaGlare — Narrowed suspicious eyes, beak flat
12. GugugagaDance — Arms spread, leg up, open happy beak

Generating Emote Art: Prompt Templates

Use Midjourney for the most consistent expression control:

Base Emote Prompt Template

/imagine prompt: chibi penguin girl emote, black and white penguin costume, bright yellow beak, big gray eyes, black bangs with silver clips, [EXPRESSION], white background, Discord emoji style, thick outline, clean flat colors, 1:1 square --niji 6 --ar 1:1 --style cute

Replace [EXPRESSION] with:

• laughing with beak wide open, eyes closed in joy
• shocked with huge wide eyes, beak in O shape
• crying with streams of tears, sad droopy eyes
• angry with furrowed eyebrows, steam from head
• blushing shyly, cheeks pink, eyes looking away

Sticker Sheet (Batch Generation)

/imagine prompt: emote sticker sheet, 9 different chibi penguin girl expressions in black and white penguin costume, yellow beak, gray eyes, black bangs, white background, Discord emote style, clean outlines, labeled grid layout --niji 6 --ar 1:1 --style cute

Then crop each individual emote from the sheet.

Export and Resize Workflow

Using GIMP (Free)

1. Open your Gugugaga Penguin image in GIMP.
2. Remove background — see transparent PNG guide.
3. Go to Image > Scale Image and set to 128×128 pixels.
4. Ensure interpolation is set to Cubic (best quality for downscaling).
5. File > Export As > name it gugugagahappy.png > confirm PNG settings.
6. Check that file size is under 256 KB.

Using Canva (Easier)

1. Create a new design at 128×128 pixels (custom size).
2. Import your transparent PNG.
3. Resize and center within the canvas.
4. Download as PNG with transparent background.

Uploading to Discord

Server Emoji (Server Admins Only)

1. Open your Discord server.
2. Click the server name at the top > Server Settings.
3. Navigate to Emoji in the left sidebar.
4. Click Upload Emoji.
5. Select your 128×128 PNG file.
6. Name it without spaces — use the names from the list above.
7. Click Save Changes.

Servers can hold 50 free emoji slots, 100 with a boosted server.

With Discord Nitro (Personal Use)

Nitro subscribers can use any server’s emotes anywhere on Discord. If you upload your Gugugaga pack to a public server, Nitro users can use them in any conversation.

Animated Emote GIFs

For animated emotes (waving, blinking, etc.):

1. Generate a short 1–2 second loop animation in Kling AI or Seedance.
2. Convert the MP4 to GIF using ezgif.com.
3. Resize to 128×128 using ezgif’s resize tool.
4. Optimize to under 256 KB — ezgif’s “Optimize” feature reduces frame count to hit the limit.
5. Upload as animated emoji to Discord.

Pro Tips

• Name consistently: Use GugugagaEmotion naming convention so they sort together in the emoji picker.
• Test at small size: View your emote at 32×32 pixels (the size it appears in chat). If the expression is readable, you are good.
• Bold outlines: A 2–3px black outline ensures the emote is visible on both dark and light Discord themes.
• Check both themes: Discord has dark and light mode — white outlines disappear on light mode. Stick to black outlines.

Share your emote pack with the community and link back to our Gugugaga Penguin prompts page for more inspiration. Need the character images first? Start at /make-your-own-gugugaga.