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Its time that XDANDROID was properly branded. jk
I'd like to incorporate some creative works from themers and users on xda-developers. And so if you've always wanted to contribute to XDANDROID but didn't have the technical knowledge well nows your chance.
Anyone can participate and i'm hoping to see alot of creative work. I'll be setting up a pole from a weeks time and will let you the user's decide which artworks are best and will be incorporated in the next build.
Here are some details:
Submit your wallpapers | boot animations for XDANDROID here
Requirements
Wallpaper
Must contain the text "XDANDROID" (lowercase accepted)
640x480 dimensions
800x480 dimensions
png, jpeg format
Boot Animation
256x512 dimensions LANDSCAPE
Contain text "XDANDROID" (lowercase accepted)
Unlimited frames. Though try not too much
png format
Landscape
Provide all frames. Do not merge into one file!
Top 5 wallpapers will be incorporated into next XDANDROID AOSP release and 1 boot animation will be replacing the current Nexus one boot Animation.
Please consider a donation to the XDANDROID project. We work on this on our spare time, even not on our spare times and every little bit gives us more inspiration and motivation to continue providing you our friends awww* great builds and support
Nice
Good luck guys, I will try post something too but I have to enhance my photoshop skills
Because of my lack of photoshop skills here's an idea someone might want to try:
The Android droid actualy looks somewhat like a rounded capital A...
If you draw an XD emoticon on it's face, you have an XD Android
I think that this is a fantastic idea.
Comon peeps
We need some of your help guys.
I hate stock and we need cooler mods from a great community on xda
ill try to do something cool, but boot animation, what format should it be in? GIF? Flash format?
Cool idea!
Which resolution do you want for the boot animation?
samizzlah said:
ill try to do something cool, but boot animation, what format should it be in? GIF? Flash format?
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The resolution is 512x256 and if possible provide each frame in png format. As the boot animation reads each image separately. The maximum amount of frames are 60 but you can do less than that.
Can't wait to see what you guys have to offer
You can provide a GIF image too, as i'll just rip it but it would be much easier if you provided the images separate instead of merged into a GIF
This is probably a stupid question but do the wallpaper sizes you asked for allow for the multiple-home-screen sliding of Android to work? They're the same size as the devices' screens, and I don't know if that means that it would only be big enough to cover one home screen without being stretched, or if Android does something differently with regard to setting wallpapers.
Also, the Hero boot animation is 217 frames long, does this matter?
And finally, I guess the animation should be able to loop (?).
Hmm, hard to do anything on only 60 frames. But here's a first draft at a boot animation. Any suggestions for improvements are most welcome.
I'll probably add another animation tomorrow when I have had time to get some better ideas.
At what fps does the animation play back by the way?
And would it be hard to replace the current bootanimation with a custom one? It would be nice to test the animation before submitting it to you.
That one looks great! If I had to be critical I'd say you could make the text colour more distinct from that of the background, but I love the Android
It's much better than anything I would have done... Do you have professional experience in graphics/rendering?
@lugiber: that's funny Good job
It's too bad I don't have skills in this area because I have a great idea. Something like an Android(pretty much pac-man) eating a windows mobile sign and leaving behind the xd-android sign behind.
Thanks for the positive reponses guys! I'll make "xdandroid" stick out more and update the animation.
Hehe, i like the idea about the android eating windows. I'll see what i can do.
I had some ideas in that direction but I wasn't shure if people would respond well to "windows bashing".
Here's an XDAndroid wallpaper idea I made - I know that it's pretty basic but I wouldn't mind some feedback
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Hmm, hard to do anything on only 60 frames. But here's a first draft at a boot animation. Any suggestions for improvements are most welcome.
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Nice one! How about making the background black? It's not filling the whole screen, (since that's how Android does it) So I think whatever's on the outside of the animation is black.
ben_duder said:
Here's an XDAndroid wallpaper idea I made - I know that it's pretty basic but I wouldn't mind some feedback
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Nice! I like it simple and basic!
Here's my idea of simple boot animation.
TheDeadCpu said:
Nice! I like it simple and basic!
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Thanks
mkmatis said:
Here's my idea of simple boot animation.
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Nice! If you don't mind me asking, how exactly do you do that sort of thing? The only way I can think of is by lightening each frame separately, which would be both time consuming and probably quite messy.
ben_duder said:
Here's an XDAndroid wallpaper idea I made - I know that it's pretty basic but I wouldn't mind some feedback
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i like it
nice and simple!
mkmatis said:
Here's my idea of simple boot animation.
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lugiber said:
Hmm, hard to do anything on only 60 frames. But here's a first draft at a boot animation. Any suggestions for improvements are most welcome.
I'll probably add another animation tomorrow when I have had time to get some better ideas.
At what fps does the animation play back by the way?
And would it be hard to replace the current bootanimation with a custom one? It would be nice to test the animation before submitting it to you.
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haha looks like you both interpreted the requirements wrong or i wrote them wrong :S
I'd like it to be 512 width and 256 in height.
But other than that it looks good. If possible add some android in there doing something humourous ( not necessary but would be greatly appreciated )
I had an idea for a boot animation. You know how when you go to a movie and it starts out with the countdown in old black and white, but then the film seems to melt away revealing a modernized version of the countdown with all sorts of special effects? it is similar to this,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzTdxiixjrk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
But starts at 10 and the film melts around 7 or 6 and also seems to slow down. Does anyone know what I am talking about? Also there are some sweet sound effects.
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I don't know how to edit with the app, but this is what I meant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWcjz3OIh18&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Edit: long press.
I'm not the sharpest bulb in the drawer.
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thatd be sweet....i have no idea how to make boot animations but would easily use something like this if someone made it!
Yeah, with the sound effects as well, but instead of it saying dolby digital at the end, it could say HTC G2 or Desire Z.
That would be sick!
I vote for this, that would be so, excuse my French, Fu**ing awesome.
Ill give it a try when I get some time if no one beats me to it. Would be nice if it faded to android instead of dolby at the end. See what I can do, no promises, ive only done a few boot animations.
brian.dore said:
Ill give it a try when I get some time if no one beats me to it. Would be nice if it faded to android instead of dolby at the end. See what I can do, no promises, ive only done a few boot animations.
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give it a try dude, we will all appreciate it! ive never done one cuz im a noob so u wont hear me critiquing!
Umm from what I remember a boot animation is easy to make but a video needs to be made first then the boot animation
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I just plan on using mplayer in the terminal to turn the video into 100+ png files and extract the audio to mp3. Then I will crop the images to 480x800. I also plan on removing the dolbly frames at the end. I would like to incorporate an android at the end? I want to keep the sound with it. I have the audio boot animation right now, I will see how it works out. I will posy my results. Might take me about a week between work, school, and my wife and kids its hard to find spare time.
I have the animation built, I am trying to reduce the size of the png files. There are 180 files and it runs too slow at the moment. I will keep trying. I'm not very good with large batch operations, learning as I go.
+1 for this. I really like!
Try setting the framerate lower than standard video which is usually 30fps lower it to about 1/2 and see how it runs.. then export it. Open all the files in photoshop and batch process them using "save for web" as png to get the file size down
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connoisseur said:
Try setting the framerate lower than standard video which is usually 30fps lower it to about 1/2 and see how it runs.. then export it. Open all the files in photoshop and batch process them using "save for web" as png to get the file size down
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Thanks, I'll give that a shot.
So, how is it about this nice idea ?
I am having a hell of a time trying to get these png files to a size that will properly boot. My end zip is always around 71 mb. Anyone care to enlighten me on a easy way to batch modify 150 png files to a smaller size. I'm running linux mint and using grub, ffmpeg, and mplayer to try this. Maybe there is an easier way?
I would have done it on Photoshop with a batch but on linux...
Brian, it would be so sick if u got this working! I'm sorry, i can't help with anything cuz everything i read in your last few posts and others just blew my mind away! Lol! Noob here! Good luck, and a donation will definitely come your way if it works out!
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Okay, what do you think about this one ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie-wnUpIqmQ
Sorry for the quality
No sound atm has I don't know how to make it work both on CM and Sense based rom.
Naphtaline said:
Okay, what do you think about this one ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie-wnUpIqmQ
Sorry for the quality
No sound atm has I don't know how to make it work both on CM and Sense based rom.
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Looking good
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So i been recently making boot animations and i was wondering how to make them play all the Way through i only make them 10 seconds but they play really slow and never finish the phone will boot before its done i use adobe after effects...ill attach one i made recently for cm7 if anyone can tell me how to make the smaller and play better it would be greatly appreciated thanks in advanced. http://db.tt/Xcj6TOaM
"I am always one of many."
Mr nerd said:
So i been recently making boot animations and i was wondering how to make them play all the Way through i only make them 10 seconds but they play really slow and never finish the phone will boot before its done i use adobe after effects...ill attach one i made recently for cm7 if anyone can tell me how to make the smaller and play better it would be greatly appreciated thanks in advanced. http://db.tt/Xcj6TOaM
"I am always one of many."
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You need to check your frame rate,thats why your animation might be slow,30 is the frame rate in fps (frames per second) i.e. number of images to display per second.The boot animation will play at a resolution of 480 by 800 pixels, at a frame rate of 30 fps, starting with the contents of part0 folder and after playing them in one loop, switching to contents and playing them continuously till the device fully boots.I believe an animation is supposed to last about 23 seconds.
OK i see i already had it at 30 i also split it in to parts part0 part1 part2
I also can't figure out how to make the files smaller i have a optimizer but it made it double in size but when I split it in parts it didn't even play...
"I am always one of many."
Heres a great tut i found that might help you out.... Boot Animation Tutorial .
Diablo67 said:
Heres a great tut i found that might help you out.... Boot Animation Tutorial .
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Thanks alot i should of just searched but I can normally do it myself lol
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768x1280 please, thank you!
I don't understand... What do you want from me???? Lol
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I don't understand... What do you want from me???? Lol
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The white Google logo at the beginning when you turn the phone on.
All the other images I found are not of high enough quality.
This?
Yes. But the original one from the phone.
What's different about it?
The logo is bigger, and the resolution is 768x1280.
Is there anyway to extract the original one from the phone? I need it to be exact.
I don't think you wanna mess around with this since the so called boot splash is built in to the kernel. If you know this stuff, change it in your kernel at the high risk of a brick and if you're a noob like me, just let it be.
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I don't think you wanna mess around with this since the so called boot splash is built in to the kernel. If you know this stuff, change it in your kernel at the high risk of a brick and if you're a noob like me, just let it be.
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I think he just wants to make it his bootanimation
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I think he just wants to make it his bootanimation
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So by replacing this image with the same file name out will boot the new image?
Does file size matter?
Yes, I just want to make it part of my boot animation. I need the actual image so I can mess around with it and add new things to it.
leejonnymr said:
Yes, I just want to make it part of my boot animation. I need the actual image so I can mess around with it and add new things to it.
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You should also find out if the size of the image makes a difference with noting or is updates
I tried other images I found on Google Images but the resolution are too small.
I enlarged and expanded to size but it makes the Google Logo blurry and the detail deteriorates extremely.
Is there a way I can extract the original image?
Please.
Again.
I don't understand... Why don't you just get the highest res Google logo you can find on Google images and put it against a 768x1280 background?
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Wow. You're like one of those people that call tech support and give the most vague answers and descriptions turning what could have been a 10 minute call into a 2 hour call. It took two pages just to understand what you were wanting, lol. Ok, ok...now that i've picked on you, i'll be serious. To help you out in future requests, it's always best to give out as much info as possible. What is the request, what is it for. It's always best to give out too much information rather than too little.
I agree with another poster here. Just download a high res google logo and slap it onto a background the size you need. Gimp is free and can do just this.
Oh, also found this (just happened to be browsing in the boot animations thread. I haven't seen the animation itself, but it's the logo from the splash screen with 2 gears under it. I'm sure with a small amount of editing, you can get this to do what you want.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37079831&postcount=148
The Google logo is built Into the boot loader. Good lick extracting it.
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leejonnymr said:
Yes, I just want to make it part of my boot animation. I need the actual image so I can mess around with it and add new things to it.
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here you go.
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Wow. You're like one of those people that call tech support and give the most vague answers and descriptions turning what could have been a 10 minute call into a 2 hour call. It took two pages just to understand what you were wanting, lol. Ok, ok...now that i've picked on you, i'll be serious. To help you out in future requests, it's always best to give out as much info as possible. What is the request, what is it for. It's always best to give out too much information rather than too little.
I agree with another poster here. Just download a high res google logo and slap it onto a background the size you need. Gimp is free and can do just this.
Oh, also found this (just happened to be browsing in the boot animations thread. I haven't seen the animation itself, but it's the logo from the splash screen with 2 gears under it. I'm sure with a small amount of editing, you can get this to do what you want.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37079831&postcount=148
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I don't see what the big deal is. He asked for an image and you guys all get into his business as,img what it's for. It doesn't matter, he just asked for the image.. you are the one making this complicated.
Now, OP you can probably find an image on google images or try to figure out how to extract it rom the splash image
KitKat Easter Egg BootAnimation By AbhishekS
Download Here
http://d-h.st/E7L
(couldn't attach to XDA as the limit for a zip on XDA is around 11mb)
So guys I was bored and decided to make a KitKat Easter Egg Bootanimation for my phone so that I can flaunt KitKat in front of my friends while booting the device too.
I pretty much liked the outcome so thought of sharing it with all of you.
The size of the zip is big for a bootanimation (32mb) because all the images used are of full 1280x720 resolution.
Installation:
To install, simply copy the zip file to system/media and give the permissions as rw-r-r (ie 644)
Download Here
http://d-h.st/E7L
(couldn't attach to XDA as the limit for a zip on XDA is around 11mb)
The video doesn't look too good as it's just for 5 seconds. But believe me it looks fantastic as the bootanimation on the phone because I have looped it.
Good work.
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You can use .jpg format and reduce a little bit the frames quality ( -10-20%) to get smaller boot size without affect the quality
Anyway...beautiful boot
enricocid said:
You can use .jpg format and reduce a little bit the frames quality ( -10-20%) to get smaller boot size without affect the qualità
Anyway...beautiful boot
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Glad you liked it. But I wonder what's wrong with the download counter of dev host. Two of my friends just downloaded the bootanimation in front of me and the counter still shows 0.
Anyways, I have used JPEGs only. And I thought of reducing the quality, but there is an outer glow behind the KitKat Android Bot which would look very bad on reducing even little bit of quality. So I decided to keep the maximum quality.
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Glad you liked it. But I wonder what's wrong with the download counter of dev host. Two of my friends just downloaded the bootanimation in front of me and the counter still shows 0.
Anyways, I have used JPEGs only. And I thought of reducing the quality, but there is an outer glow behind the KitKat Android Bot which would look very bad on reducing even little bit of quality. So I decided to keep the maximum quality.
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This is because I looked only the video because I don't have Nexus and can't directly try
awesome work and thank you
can you resize it for different resolutions.. like i have a s2 the boot img resoultion i need is 480x800
Any mirror to download please ?
Problems with Dev-Host. Can't access it.
Want to test it on my G2...
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