Thanks to a great article on Droid Life, I was able to activate the new Emoji Workshop wallpaper creator. All it takes is having a Pixel device updated to the June Feature Drop version. Following a Google Play Link to update Emoji Workshop on said device and rebooting one's phone. It's dumb Pixel users have to jump through so many hoops. #GooglePixel
Successfully sideloaded the Pixel Feature June Update! Turns out Google stopped making specific OTAs for carriers a while ago. Now it's just a single OTA zip to download. Now to figure out how to get the Emoji Workshop to show up in my Wallpaper Options. #GooglePixel