Does anyone know _where_ these supposed 4,000 OBJ files are open-sourced? They don't seem to be in the Noto Emoji GitHub repo, nor linked anywhere in the article.

I couldn't find anything easier.

Seems like they're trying to tease excitement for new emoji in the next Android release (there was also an earlier linkless post in May[1]), so I'm assuming they don't want anyone scooping them and will push to the Noto repo on or after the day of release.

Seems like the post really should at least have used a future tense for "handing over raw .OBJ files to the community".

[1] https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android...

I'm wondering the same! How that article has no links is beyond me.