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[PROJECT] REAL animated Bootanimations in AOSP

I want to start a project for a REAL animated bootscreen, maybe as GIF or multiple JPGs..
From what I know, the bootanimation is triggered by the surfaceflinger, and it calls the bootanimation binary.
The source is here:
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=pl...9269bc9fa9452ad32d733830713565e157cc;hb=donut
Lets mod it

In the Droid dump the start animation is a serie ofpng files maybe we can use the same things for the desktop ?

Quick Question: Does htc include some special files that allows android to support GIF's ?

imfloflo said:
In the Droid dump the start animation is a serie ofpng files maybe we can use the same things for the desktop ?
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Incompatible, throws out errors, idk why.
Daneshm90 said:
Quick Question: Does htc include some special files that allows android to support GIF's ?
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Didn't see any.. but running the bootaniamtion bin does show the AOSP animation.

K i dont have a build environment setup so im just gonna suggest
What happens if u replace
Code:
initTexture(&mAndroid[0], mAssets, "images/android-logo-mask.png");
with
Code:
initTexture(&mAndroid[0], mAssets, "images/boot.gif");
???

djengizz mentioned to me, he saw in the source that the system makes calls to android-logo-mask.png maybe we should change that .png to .gif

Daneshm90 said:
K i dont have a build environment setup so im just gonna suggest
What happens if u replace
Code:
initTexture(&mAndroid[0], mAssets, "images/android-logo-mask.png");
with
Code:
initTexture(&mAndroid[0], mAssets, "images/boot.gif");
???
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man u beat me 2 it

Maybe it's possible to create an array of images for the foreground (android-logo-mask0.png --> android-logo-maskxxx.png) and iterate over them in the do - while loop that shifts the background image.

Yes, great idea, maybe a very wide,wide image of pngs? Not sure if it will work though..
Any dev out there with java knowledge?

Sorry to say that but it isn't Java...
C++... I'm cloning the git-repro and then look it's so easy to just change the name to .gif...
I don't think it's enough, because the png and gif-format are both different and png is ONE frame, a gif has many frames!

born2die said:
Sorry to say that but it isn't Java...
C++... I'm cloning the git-repro and then look it's so easy to just change the name to .gif...
I don't think it's enough, because the png and gif-format are both different and png is ONE frame, a gif has many frames!
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Ah it never is as easy as it seems, but doesnt hurt to give it a shot
Yea loading multiple png's would definitely be a good alternative, just add some delay between them.

maxisma said:
Yes, great idea, maybe a very wide,wide image of pngs? Not sure if it will work though..
Any dev out there with java knowledge?
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Judging from the source the background shift happens at 12 fps and it renders a texture from the png image (so i don't think an animated gif would work).
That means that something like the Droid animations would at least last around 4 seconds (i thought there's about 50 images in it) although you could speed up / slow down things of course.

we gotta figure out the way that droid calls the bootanimation.zip in /media. they're clearly not even using /assets because the android-mask.png is all still in there.

djengizz said:
That means that something like the Droid animations would at least last around 4 seconds (i thought there's about 50 images in it)
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there's more like 100

jroid said:
we gotta figure out the way that droid calls the bootanimation.zip in /media. they're clearly not even using /assets because the android-mask.png is all still in there.
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Same with Htc. They even have their assets folder n stuff, but never use it. If we cud figure out either htc or droid's calling methods, we're set

Which bootanimation.zip are you talking about?

it looks like the source is written to recognize png's. a simple change to .gif wouldn't work unless we were to re-write the source to recognize .gif.. so then our focus should be to get an animation using png's. hence, what Motorola did w/ droid

jroid said:
we gotta figure out the way that droid calls the bootanimation.zip in /media. they're clearly not even using /assets because the android-mask.png is all still in there.
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It doesn't really matter, we could move them to framework-res/assets for the AOSP builds.

born2die said:
Which bootanimation.zip are you talking about?
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in droid's dump, the /system/media/ has bootanimation.zip in there which contains the droid boot png's

At the moment i'm a bit confused, so wich bootanimation are you really talking about?
EDIT: Thx, don't know so much about DROID...

Boot animation woes

My evo hates any boot animations that I make, i've attached a boot animation that has absolutely NO reason to fail, yet I get a black screen. All I did was recolor the images, no other changes. If I put a custom image in a boot animation that works, my evo skips right over the image that I put in. Completely custom animation, black screen. Is the attached animation screwed somehow?

mrono said:
My evo hates any boot animations that I make, i've attached a boot animation that has absolutely NO reason to fail, yet I get a black screen. All I did was recolor the images, no other changes. If I put a custom image in a boot animation that works, my evo skips right over the image that I put in. Completely custom animation, black screen. Is the attached animation screwed somehow?
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First off, do something more creative than just turning a previous animation gold. Next leave the frame rate at 24 fps. Next, when you zip the file make sure it is zipped as a store... not compressed. Leave the txt file alone. try not to mess with it at all. it has to be a unix file, thats why you need to leave it alone if at all possable.

SamJamz said:
First off, do something more creative than just turning a previous animation gold. Next leave the frame rate at 24 fps. Next, when you zip the file make sure it is zipped as a store... not compressed. Leave the txt file alone. try not to mess with it at all. it has to be a unix file, thats why you need to leave it alone if at all possable.
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I didn't touch the txt, zipped as store, and i turned it orange because it's for an orange base CM6 theme. It still doesn't work, here's the zip that I tried.

mrono said:
I didn't touch the txt, zipped as store, and i turned it orange because it's for an orange base CM6 theme. It still doesn't work, here's the zip that I tried.
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Don't worry about someone trying to tell you what to do as a boot animation. He's just being a troll.
As for your animation, the reason it's ****ing up is BECAUSE you didn't edit the desc.txt properly. That animation has two parts, and the desc. txt calls for both.
Just get an animation with a single part to it, and toss your images in the android dolder, that way you won't have to worry about ****ing up the desc. txt again.

TJDuckett said:
Don't worry about someone trying to tell you what to do as a boot animation. He's just being a troll.
As for your animation, the reason it's ****ing up is BECAUSE you didn't edit the desc.txt properly. That animation has two parts, and the desc. txt calls for both.
Just get an animation with a single part to it, and toss your images in the android dolder, that way you won't have to worry about ****ing up the desc. txt again.
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Why does that animation work before i pulled the images out, modded them, then put them back in and not after? All the images are there in the same folders, names, everything.

mrono said:
Why does that animation work before i pulled the images out, modded them, then put them back in and not after? All the images are there in the same folders, names, everything.
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Bc you lied and said you didn't mess with the desc.txt, but you not only did, but screwed it up.

TJDuckett said:
Bc you lied and said you didn't mess with the desc.txt, but you not only did, but screwed it up.
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swear to god I didn't touch it, that's the exact same one that is in the CM6 zip. How is it screwed up and how should it be written?

I dunno. They're different. Look at them yourself.
Anyways, I'm out - Just do what I said in the above post to fix it.

nope, just side/side them, same file. Anyone with a better reason on why the zip I posted doesn't work instead of "because it doesn't"?

Desc txt from original-
480 480 24
p 1 10 android
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
Desc. from your edit:
480 480 30
p 1 1 android
p 0 0 loading
... how the **** are those the same?

TJDuckett said:
Desc txt from original-
480 480 24
p 1 10 android
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
Desc. from your edit:
480 480 30
p 1 1 android
p 0 0 loading
... how the **** are those the same?
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Your still looking at the one that I posted first, I posted another on 1-2 posts later and have been refering to the newer one, figured that was obvious.

mrono said:
Your still looking at the one that I posted first, I posted another on 1-2 posts later and have been refering to the newer one, figured that was obvious.
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It wasn't.

Alanmw86 said:
It wasn't.
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great response, i assumed wrong, now can we get back to trying to figure out why the boot animation doesn't work

mrono said:
great response, i assumed wrong, now can we get back to trying to figure out why the boot animation doesn't work
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Honestly no. You posted the original and the one you edited. The text from both were obviously different, thus me saying that you changed it. After you said you didn't, and I showed you the blatant difference in the two files, you responded with soemthing about me "looking at the wrong one"... you posted BOTH for comparison, and that's what I did... compared them.
As for the fix, it's a simple fix. The real problem here, is that people here, including myself, don't really like to help assholes.
Anyways, you and that pompous **** have fun.

New DROID X mixed boot animation, with sound.

Made a mixture of a few boot animations for my DROID X.
Rotten Apple
Stock DROID boot
NeXus Holiday Red
Then added (and mixed horribly) a sound I made from Apple startup, then some stock DROID auido files.
Sorry if its rotated, I forgot about that when I filmed it, but that actual phone and file are in portrait mode. Also, sorry about the "fisheye". My camera is a compact hand held with a 10x zoom. That close, and the lens warped the image a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ5DqbbZ2QY
oldschool71 said:
I have been able to get bootanimations to play on my droid x with sound. I took the following steps to enable this. I used root explorer to move the files.
1. Download the attached file. This file is one that I removed from a R2D2 D2.
2. Unzip the file and save the file to your sdcard. The file is labeled bootanimation.
3. Use root explorer and go to the folder /system/bin.
4. In that folder locate the file named bootanimation and save it as bootanimation2
5. move the file that you just renamed to your sdcard
6. move the new file that you downloaded and placed on your sdcard to the folder /system/bin
7. simple as that.
You will need to make sure that what ever audio file that is assigned to your bootanimation is saved in the folder /system/media
Have to give squidlymandingo a thanks for supplying the files from the R2D2 D2. Thanks
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That is how you apply sound. the .zip is located at
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/85339-adding-boot-sound-x.html
I have already edited the desc.txt to play one sound at the beginning of the animation. you can use what ever file you want, but it has to be named android.mp3
The sound file needs to be place in the /system/media/ folder, along with the boot animation.
EDIT:: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AY9FDTRL Link for the zip with bootanimation, sound file, and the /system/bin/ file.

Looks great. Where can we download it from?

I want this too. Looks great.
Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk

Anybody want to host the files? Im not sure of a good free site to do it at.
Also, PM with emails and ill send out the animation.
Let me know if u want sound too, as that requires a few extra steps which i will post later/

megaupload.com is a good site to use and its free.

Added link to first post

Very nice mix. Only downside is that I'm gonna be booting my Dx a lot at the bar with my iPhone hobbled friends now

Any one get it to play sound from the start? Tried changing out that bootanimation file in /system/bin/ no luck. Plus the last image from the animation never went away. just showed the image, then i did the slide to unlock and it went to my homescreen.

bad4u6669 said:
Any one get it to play sound from the start? Tried changing out that bootanimation file in /system/bin/ no luck. Plus the last image from the animation never went away. just showed the image, then i did the slide to unlock and it went to my homescreen.
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Define "from beginning".
My phone has the bong right when the apple appears.. maybe a quarter second delay.
and ive never heard nor seen the last image staying until you unlock.

ok sound plays and animation fixed. I turned your files into an update.zip.
Left in my transformers sound. But its cut off when it starts playing the second set of file.
any work around for this? Do I have to break the audio into 2 seperate files and tell the second one to play once the second animation starts?
Also, what are the restrictions on the files, for instance, i tried to change the hue on another bootani so the colors were closer to the theme i was on. But after changing the hue the animation wont play. Ideas?

bad4u6669 said:
ok sound plays and animation fixed. I turned your files into an update.zip.
Left in my transformers sound. But its cut off when it starts playing the second set of file.
any work around for this? Do I have to break the audio into 2 seperate files and tell the second one to play once the second animation starts?
Also, what are the restrictions on the files, for instance, i tried to change the hue on another bootani so the colors were closer to the theme i was on. But after changing the hue the animation wont play. Ideas?
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IM new to all this, so i will give you what i know
The breaking up the sound. I am not sure, but you can try it. In the desc.txt you will notice there is a
480 480 13
(stuff)
s android.mp3
(stuff)
***Just add a s (name of file).mp3 here. I am not sure, but i think it may loop with the animation.
for changing the hue, what do you have right now? Whats in the bootaniamtion file. Also, remember when you zip the file it needs to be in store compression, or no compression.

bad4u6669 said:
ok sound plays and animation fixed. I turned your files into an update.zip.
Left in my transformers sound. But its cut off when it starts playing the second set of file.
any work around for this? Do I have to break the audio into 2 seperate files and tell the second one to play once the second animation starts?
Also, what are the restrictions on the files, for instance, i tried to change the hue on another bootani so the colors were closer to the theme i was on. But after changing the hue the animation wont play. Ideas?
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Also, could you tell me how to make an update.zip.. Just something simple as a boot animation change like the one you made.

Casen said:
Also, could you tell me how to make an update.zip.. Just something simple as a boot animation change like the one you made.
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I wonder if its the compression messing it up. DO you know why it has to have no compression?
Pm me your email. I will send you and update.zip with all your stuff. Use 7zip or what ever to browse the file structure, its super easy to figure out.
do you know what those lines in the desc.txt mean?

bad4u6669 said:
I wonder if its the compression messing it up. DO you know why it has to have no compression?
Pm me your email. I will send you and update.zip with all your stuff. Use 7zip or what ever to browse the file structure, its super easy to figure out.
do you know what those lines in the desc.txt mean?
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PM sent, and i dont know why it has to have no compression, but i do know (from trial and error)that if there is compression, you will get a black screen until its time to unlock your phone.

UPDATE: I am currently looking into taking Movie, or music video clips, and turning them into bootanimations. Im not taking requests, as i am very busy with the move, but I will tell you if this is feasible, and if its easily done i will post up what and how to do it

so what does the "13" indicate on the first line? Im guessing the 480 480 is the HxW of the image.
the other animation im messing with, i can now zip it (without compression) and it works, but once i add the "s android.mp3" it wont show the animation.
in this one it is "480 480 10"

bad4u6669 said:
so what does the "13" indicate on the first line? Im guessing the 480 480 is the HxW of the image.
the other animation im messing with, i can now zip it (without compression) and it works, but once i add the "s android.mp3" it wont show the animation.
in this one it is "480 480 10"
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The "10" is FPS

bad4u6669 said:
so what does the "13" indicate on the first line? Im guessing the 480 480 is the HxW of the image.
the other animation im messing with, i can now zip it (without compression) and it works, but once i add the "s android.mp3" it wont show the animation.
in this one it is "480 480 10"
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also post your desc text.
the "s android.mp3" should be underneath the first p0 line

Casen said:
also post your desc text.
the "s android.mp3" should be underneath the first p0 line
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thats where its at.
480 480 10
p 1 0 part0
s android.mp3
p 0 0 part1

bad4u6669 said:
thats where its at.
480 480 10
p 1 0 part0
s android.mp3
p 0 0 part1
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are you putting any space or anything in there? (inbetween the lines)?

[BOOT ANIMATION] finished my boot animation but cant get it to work

i made a boot animation to match the liberty rom. it is the raising of the flag on mnt serabachi on iwo jima. i made the folder structure and the appropriate desc.txt but it wont play on my dx. Can anyone help me get this to work?

sound DO NOT WORK on liberty Rom (dont ask me why cuz i really dont know), i was checking you animation and i recommend to use at least minimum 480x320 image size and max 480x854 , as you may know you can set the animation size on the desc.txt so no need to go high and then going down on the desc.txt , that way you'll have a not heavy and lighter zip file at the end cuz 29MB for a bootanimation is kinda big using only 220 frames.....
P.S. that's one of the reason i use .jpg format instead of .png

thank you for the reply. is there any way to batch resize the pictures? i really dont want to do 220 pics individually. I CAN however, batch rename the pictures to the .jpg extension. I will do that and research how to batch resize.

mattmartin77 said:
thank you for the reply. is there any way to batch resize the pictures? i really dont want to do 220 pics individually. I CAN however, batch rename the pictures to the .jpg extension. I will do that and research how to batch resize.
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mmm not really the programs i use just do batch rename and format change but not resize :-( ...... i have never have the need on doing it cuz use a program to create my clips and safe those clips with the right size and then create the jpg's out of it

well i found that both gimp and photoshop can batch resize easily so i am going to try that

mattmartin77 said:
well i found that both gimp and photoshop can batch resize easily so i am going to try that
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mmmm interesting i didnt know gimp does it LoL...thats good to know... thanks for sharing info

draken78 said:
mmmm interesting i didnt know gimp does it LoL...thats good to know... thanks for sharing info
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well you need a plugin, but its free and so far working great! not only is it resizing all my images, but it is also changing em to .jpg at the same time.
i just finished resizing, im going to try it now.

ok i tested the boot animation again with the resized pictures in a jpg format. the size is now 480x360 because i kept the original ratio, and i made the desc.txt 480x360 at 15fps. i converted everything to .jpg and i removed the audio. i used the liberty toolbox to flash it then i confirmed it was in the right spot using root explorer. i rebooted and all that appeared was a blank screen... any suggestions?

i really would like an answer, bump

Make sure when putting all the files/images/desc file into the zip you set the compression method to STORE and not NORMAL. When my bootanims were just a black screen this is what fixed it.

Explodee said:
Make sure when putting all the files/images/desc file into the zip you set the compression method to STORE and not NORMAL. When my bootanims were just a black screen this is what fixed it.
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thank you for your help, but how to I change my compression method?

mattmartin77 said:
thank you for your help, but how to I change my compression method?
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if you are using WINRAR do the follow :
1- select the folders and file to compress
2- right click on you mouse/touch pad (in case you are using a laptop like me LoL)
3- select " add to archive"
4- there you can change you compression method from normal to store
5- add a name to the file and select ZIP
6- click OK
7- you're done.
if you are using 7zip is pretty much the same steps from winrar...
hope that helps

thank you so much it works now! im going to put a few finishing touches on it and post it up!

mattmartin77 said:
thank you so much it works now! im going to put a few finishing touches on it and post it up!
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Super ..... hope to see your animation soon

a few things for future reference though,
1. what is a good gif creator? i have tried at least 10 websites and at least 6 programs and none do what i want efficiently. i want to open all 220 frames at once and make an animation rather than opening each individually like i had to.
2. what is a good video to jpg creator? i had to go frame by frame and take snapshots for my entire animation last time and i took like 2 hours:/

mattmartin77 said:
a few things for future reference though,
1. what is a good gif creator? i have tried at least 10 websites and at least 6 programs and none do what i want efficiently. i want to open all 220 frames at once and make an animation rather than opening each individually like i had to.
2. what is a good video to jpg creator? i had to go frame by frame and take snapshots for my entire animation last time and i took like 2 hours:/
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1 - Animated GIF Producer and Ulead GIF Animator so far are the best out there
2 - Video to JPG converter is my favorite and the best for bootanimations.

thank you, thread can be closed.

[Request][Bootanimation] Have images, can someone make a working animation zip please

I found a nice animated gif on reddit that I thought would make a cool fullscreen boot animation for the N5.
So, I contacted the guy who made the gif, and asked him to make some 1920 resolution individual frames for it.
Today I got a reply from him with an album of all the individual frames re-rendered in high 1920 resolution.
Here it is: http://imgur.com/gallery/ALyzv
can someone please take these frames (there is also a gif on the front of the album for reference of what it looks like animated), crop them if needed, and make them into a nice smooth boot animation zip please?
I know how to copy it in and do the permissions manually, I just need the zip file with the right frame timing etc
The guy responsible for the frames/render asked me to link his tumblr as credit: http://admiralpotato.tumblr.com/
Thanks XDA

Try this one first, if it doesn't work, give this one a shot. the first one I set the FPS to 0 in hopes that it would just run through it smoothly. The second, the FPS is set to 30.

BrianAllred said:
Try this one first, if it doesn't work, give this one a shot. the first one I set the FPS to 0 in hopes that it would just run through it smoothly. The second, the FPS is set to 30.
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Thanks, that's a great start, however the framerate really isn't working properly.
The first ~5? seconds of the boot it will stutter along at, I dunno, 2-3 FPS, after that it becomes smooth as it's supposed to be. Same case with both files.
More specifically: the first time it plays through the files (24 frames) it goes really slowly, as though it's loading each one one by one very unsmoothly. After that the animation is smooth. Any way to fix this?

DryEagle said:
Thanks, that's a great start, however the framerate really isn't working properly.
The first ~5? seconds of the boot it will stutter along at, I dunno, 2-3 FPS, after that it becomes smooth as it's supposed to be. Same case with both files.
More specifically: the first time it plays through the files (24 frames) it goes really slowly, as though it's loading each one one by one very unsmoothly. After that the animation is smooth. Any way to fix this?
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It might be because of the high file size of each frame. Let me see if I can do anything about that.
Since the images really take up all 1080x1920 pixels, it's hard to get the file size down. This is pretty much the best I could get.

BrianAllred said:
It might be because of the high file size of each frame. Let me see if I can do anything about that.
Since the images really take up all 1080x1920 pixels, it's hard to get the file size down. This is pretty much the best I could get.
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I brought the animation size down to ~3.3MB and there still seems to be a rough beginning, but I think the animation looks great regardless. Get it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49106124

overhauling said:
I brought the animation size down to ~3.3MB and there still seems to be a rough beginning, but I think the animation looks great regardless. Get it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49106124
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that's great, almost perfect, except the aspect ratio is all squished and wierd on yours. can you use the image frames from the first reply in this thread so it's not squidged? thanks, this is gonna be a real nice boot anim i think

DryEagle said:
that's great, almost perfect, except the aspect ratio is all squished and wierd on yours. can you use the image frames from the first reply in this thread so it's not squidged? thanks, this is gonna be a real nice boot anim i think
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I already made an animation that's scaled properly, I'm not home right now and it's in my laptop so I'll post it later on today. I didn't use the images in the first animation, instead I cropped the images in half and used the left side of the image. It still looks great.

overhauling said:
I already made an animation that's scaled properly, I'm not home right now and it's in my laptop so I'll post it later on today. I didn't use the images in the first animation, instead I cropped the images in half and used the left side of the image. It still looks great.
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whenever you're ready then

DryEagle said:
whenever you're ready then
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Try the attached one, it's even smaller.

overhauling said:
Try the attached one, it's even smaller.
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great job, the filesize is very impress, but... seems there was a problem when you were doing batch crop on the images, because they're all completely off-centre... getting so close to perfect, i know you can do it!

DryEagle said:
I found a nice animated gif on reddit that I thought would make a cool fullscreen boot animation for the N5.
So, I contacted the guy who made the gif, and asked him to make some 1920 resolution individual frames for it.
Today I got a reply from him with an album of all the individual frames re-rendered in high 1920 resolution.
Here it is: http://imgur.com/gallery/ALyzv
can someone please take these frames (there is also a gif on the front of the album for reference of what it looks like animated), crop them if needed, and make them into a nice smooth boot animation zip please?
I know how to copy it in and do the permissions manually, I just need the zip file with the right frame timing etc
The guy responsible for the frames/render asked me to link his tumblr as credit: http://admiralpotato.tumblr.com/
Thanks XDA
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53563814&postcount=1
See if that works.