Tired of Nexus boot animation? Get some Liquid!

[Guest liquid_it]

Hi community! ;)

I was looking for a new Eclair boot animation for my liquid, but didn't find any looking good enough..

So I messed up with After Effects for a bunch of minutes, getting these 2 3 bootanimations.

The first one is for LCR the second one for any other custom rom using Malez apps2sd boot.img.

This means that for the first one the animation starts from the LCR splash image, for the second one it starts from the generic android logo on a blue background.

NEW: the 3rd is an old looking animation as peter requested.

Once more: this is FOR ECLAIR ONLY

USAGE:

adb remount

adb push bootanimationLCR.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip


*or*


adb push bootanimationL.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip

links:

1) LCR boot.img: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZI6JNBCD

2) Generic apps2sd: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N5BFTCDT

3) Old looking bootanimation: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2IVKY8XV

These are latest anims, with a loop on lens flare to avoid black screen if boot takes longer.

LOW QUALITY PREVIEWS:

To be done: animation loop at the end to avoid users' "device frozen syndrome" if boot takes more time..

I can make a 4th animation starting from the stock splash screen if someone provides it to me (800x480 png or gif)..

And, as usual, comments and ideas are welcome!

Thanks to: Malez for providing the original splash images (and all of his other releases too!)

Edited April 21, 2010 by liquid_it

[Guest bais]

That's just Awesome, really good and that add more personality to the Liquid.

Looking for the bootscreen, I have only the Acer logo on black background at 800x480, but I don't have the one with the 3 Androids.

[Guest liquid_it]

Looking for the bootscreen, I have only the Acer logo on black background at 800x480, but I don't have the one with the 3 Androids.

afaik you should unpack boot.img and find a .rgb image (can't remember how it is encoded, though)

I don't have my sdk here, I'll take a look tomorrow..

[Guest bais]

Okay gonna extract it.

Edit: Okay, will wait, it just doesn't want to do it >< .

Edited April 20, 2010 by bais

[Guest Piter1225]

I have a request for skilled artist - a bootanimation with "Acer Liquid" in the middle, including photo under text, and texe flashing like default android bootanimation ;)

I would be greatful if I could use it in my ROM

Cheers

[Guest liquid_it]

I have a request for skilled artist - a bootanimation with "Acer Liquid" in the middle, including photo under text, and texe flashing like default android bootanimation ;)

I would be greatful if I could use it in my ROM

Cheers

take a look at FP.

You (and everyone else) can indeed use all these animations in your rom, no beer needed ;) , just a credit is enough..

Edited April 21, 2010 by liquid_it

[Guest Piter1225]

take a look at FP.

You (and everyone else) can indeed use all these animations in your rom, no beer needed ;) , just a credit is enough..

Thanks friend, Ill be glad to add it :-)

[Guest malez]

Thank you very much. It is a really good work. Effect is amazing.

[Guest Piter1225]

Can someone reupload last bootanimation?

It says that file is temporaly unavailable :/

[Guest Piter1225]

Is there anyone, who downloaded it?

Can u make mirror please ;)

[Guest Pympster]

Could you make a guide on how to make our own boot logos? I keep getting a black screen when I try :)

Thanks!

[Guest liquid_it]

Could you make a guide on how to make our own boot logos? I keep getting a black screen when I try :)

Thanks!

as you can see opening the zip file it's just an animation, frame by frame, in png format.

frames are stored in different folders (part0, part1, etc), and played following the rules in desc.txt:

480 800 30

p 1 0 part0

p 0 0 part1

first line says that animation frames are 480x800 pixels and should be played @30fps

the second line says "play once with pause 0, frames in folder part0"

the third says "play endlessly (until boot is completed) with pause 0 frames in folder part1"

that's it!

just remember to name the frames in correct order (something like frame001.png, frame002.png...)

ps: beware of png size: if too big, animation will not be smooth..

Edited May 13, 2010 by liquid_it

[Guest Pympster]

thanks! But the bootanimation.zip is in two folders customize/ resources as wel as the media folderl! do I put it in both?

Edited May 13, 2010 by Pympster

[Guest liquid_it]

thanks! But the bootanimation.zip is in two folders customize/ resources as wel as the media folderl! do I put it in both?

push it in /system/media/

[Guest Pympster]

Well I am actually using a desire but I assume it would work in the same way! I put your animation zip where you said but the stock boot animation still appears! Very strange...

[Guest Pympster]

Yay I've done it. It has to go in the customize/resources on the desire :)

[Guest Pympster]

No matter how I zip it always gets black screen! Even if I use no compression :) please help lol

Edited May 13, 2010 by Pympster

[Guest andyokane]

No matter how I zip it always gets black screen! Even if I use no compression :) please help lol

yeah can we have a full guide on editing boot screens. It seems if you only change ONE of th epng files the whole thing doesnt work.

Also whats this about signing the files?

[Guest liquid_it]

yeah can we have a full guide on editing boot screens. It seems if you only change ONE of th epng files the whole thing doesnt work.

Also whats this about signing the files?

there's no need to sign anything.. maybe you both can upload your bootanimation somewhere so I can look into it.

[Guest andyokane]

there's no need to sign anything.. maybe you both can upload your bootanimation somewhere so I can look into it.

Well I tried the nexus boot animation and opened up the frames, I changed just one frame(made it a white fill)

Zipped it up with no compression and tried it on the device where it failed.

[Guest liquid_it]

Well I tried the nexus boot animation and opened up the frames, I changed just one frame(made it a white fill)

Zipped it up with no compression and tried it on the device where it failed.

So it worked *before* you changed the single frame?

If so, try to compare zip format and png format (bpp, dpi, transparency, whatever! :) ) between the 2 versions, if it doesn't work there should be something wrong in one of these two things, given that nothing else has changed.

[Guest andyokane]

So it worked *before* you changed the single frame?

If so, try to compare zip format and png format (bpp, dpi, transparency, whatever! :) ) between the 2 versions, if it doesn't work there should be something wrong in one of these two things, given that nothing else has changed.

thanks, ok ive checked the edited frame and its 32 bit whilst the others are 8bit and 24bit.

Im using photoshop to edit the frames but cant seem to get it below 32bit. even when I select 8bit from the image properties?

What image software is best for creating these boot anims?

[Guest liquid_it]

What image software is best for creating these boot anims?

You can simply use "save for web" and choose png-8 format, in photoshop.

I used After Effects for the animation itself, then saved it from AE in png frames, finally converted to png-8 in PS, in order to reduce size and get a good image quality..

[Guest andyokane]

You can simply use "save for web" and choose png-8 format, in photoshop.

I used After Effects for the animation itself, then saved it from AE in png frames, finally converted to png-8 in PS, in order to reduce size and get a good image quality..

thanks!

Right ive done what you said and saved them in the correct way but now its still giving me the E: no signature E: vitrifaction failed error?

[Guest andyokane]

thanks!

Right ive done what you said and saved them in the correct way but now its still giving me the E: no signature E: verification failed error?

corrected typo^