WebP support for animated prototyping and export

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April 5, 2021
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Would be awesome to support a Webp file when exporting images like Sketch. (without using any plug-ins)

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Ali_Rasheed

messaging to keep it alive

Marius_Jurtz

We need this to speed up our Figma → Webflow process. Please make it happen. Thanks!

Jonathan_Franchell

The plugin for WebP images is annoying and overly complicated. This is the one missing feature that makes me want to return to Sketch. WebP support is necessary to be a competent tool for the modern web. It’s frustrating that the capability isn’t native.

Cannon_Phelps

This is crazy that this has not been responded to by @Figma_Support. This should be one of the easiest things to implement, especially as there are plugins that do it, and they only have access to the API.

Hoby-Van-Hoose

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Another problem with TinyImage besides the steep cost for exporting is that its webp implementation I think is flawed: it appears to compress a webp only after exporting it first as a png and the quality setting effects both the png quality as well as the webp compression. So, when you lower the quality from 100% (which you should in most cases) the output gets degraded both at the png step and the webp step.

Whereas if you instead export as png directly from Figma to files, then run those files through a 3rd party converter (several have been mentioned in this thread), you can get a higher quality webp image for the file size than doing so with TinyImage.

Tony_Jimenez

Bumping this because it should be really straightforward to implement. As an engineer it sucks to have to do that extra step of converting the image for the sake of optimizing network usage, and I’m sure that adding support for it wouldn’t be a big deal engineering wise.

I use cwebp | WebP | Google for Developers and I’m sure Figma could too.

rosa.niggemann

@Figma_Support please add this feature it would help our team a lot

VSDZN

@Figma_Support when are you updating your Export functionality module to include webp output?

Enrique

I wonder how it is possible that an application for digital product design does not allow to export the resources in WebP format.
It’s such a basic and necessary functionality right now that I don’t understand why we have to beg them to added.
And the saddest thing is that there is not even a response from someone from @Figma_Support in this thread. They make me think that writing here means wasting my time.