Kurt Shintaku's Blog

[ORIGINAL – July 11, 2022]
Ever wanted an animated background in your video during a Microsoft Teams conference call?  Rogier Dijkman figured out how to do it – here’s a quick synopsis:

1. Take any animated GIF file, such as ANIMATED.GIF & rename it to ANIMATED.PNG. (You can convert any video file to animated GIFs at http://makeagif.com.)
2. Make a copy of ANIMATED.PNG & call it ANIMATED_thumb.PNG. (Add the text “_thumb” to the end of the file name in lowercase or this won’t work)
3. Copy BOTH files to:
   %AppData%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads
4. Start a Teams meeting & turn on your camera. Click the Ellipsis (…) & select “Apply Background Effects”.
5. Select the Animated Background to enable it.

I’ve created a collection of 10 animated backgrounds for Microsoft Teams to get you started:

• Kurt’s Collection of Animated Backgrounds for Microsoft Teams (262MB)
  http://aka.ms/ksanimated

[UPDATE 4/28/23]
This has become so popular that I thought I’d release another “Version 2.0” set of Animated Backgrounds for Microsoft Teams.  For those of you who know me, yes, this contains that “moving clouds” background that you see behind me all the time.

• Kurt’s 2nd Collection of Animated Backgrounds for Microsoft Teams (114MB)
  https://aka.ms/ksanimated2