[BOOTANIM][GO/P/SOLA/U] Smoother Intro Boot Animation + Alternating Boot Animations - Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go

Anyone who has installed the recently released Jelly Bean update will have noticed that the Xperia logo is now static.
I was annoyed at having to watch two static images on boot, so I took the images from the older firmware and made a replacement introductory animation.
I've made a preview so you can decide if you want it without having to go through the trouble of installing it, see the attached image below.
The only image that has been modified is the one in the generic1 folder; everything else has been left as-is. All pngs have been compressed using Ken Silverman's PNGOUT utility.
This is packaged in a CWM-compatible format, so manually installing it requires extracting bootanimation.zip from it first.
Since this is merely a boot animation, non-JB users can install it with no issues.
Credits:
Sony for the images used (and for releasing the JB update).
despotovski01 for his excellent tutorial on modifying bootanimations.
Ken Silverman for his highly-efficient PNGOUT tool.
TGRMN Software for their awesome bulk rename utility.
stifilz for uploading the stock Xperia Tablet S boot animation.
eddrowe for uploading the stock Xperia T boot animation.
Rhamon's for requesting the Xperia P versions.
miunkwn for requesting the Xperia sola/U versions and providing me with the files I requested.
Edit (9/5/13):
I attempted to eliminate the brief blank screen between the Sony logo vanishing and the boot animation actually starting as well, but was unable to - it actually ended up looking even worse since there's apparently no way to prevent that (should really have checked that first before going through the trouble of extracting kernel.sin-ramdisk/logo.rle, but oh well). :/
Update (15/5/13):
I've made two additional variants that alternate between differing boot animations in each cycle. See the attached images below for the previews. They are shown in the following order:
smooth intro + stock JB animation | smooth intro + alternating stock JB & Xperia Tablet S Cosmic Flow animations | smooth intro + alternating stock JB & Xperia T Cosmic Flow animations
Personally, I prefer the variant with the Xperia T's Cosmic Flow animation - those glowing particle effects really do make it look cooler. Unfortunately, it's also the largest set, weighing in at a hefty 4.10 MB.
Update (16/5/13):
At Rhamon's request, I've made versions for the Xperia P. I'm not adding new previews for them though since they're basically the exact same sequences, just in larger scale for the P's bigger screen. Look for the zip archives suffixed with _p for the versions targeted at the Xperia P (e.g. smooth_intro_bootanim_jbxts_p.zip). As with those for the go, these are packaged in CWM-compatible formats, so manual installation requires extracting bootanimation.zip from them first.
Update (20/5/13):
I've also made versions for the Xperia sola and Xperia U at miunkwn's request. As with those for the go and P, these are packaged in CWM-compatible formats, so manual installation requires extracting bootanimation.zip from them first. Look for the zip archives suffixed with _sola_u for the versions targeted at the Xperia sola and Xperia U (e.g. smooth_intro_bootanim_jbxts_sola_u.zip).
Minor Update (22/5/13):
It turns out that my little script had a bug where it was automatically zipaligning bootanimation.zip, it bloats the archives and doesn't really provide any benefit whatsoever (even the stock firmwares' own bootanimation.zip archives are unaligned). For those who have already installed this boot animation, please re-download and re-install them again.
I also took the opportunity to fix the CWM package filenames on the alternating variants for the Xperia go so they now correctly read _jbxts.zip and _jbxt.zip (previously _xtsjb.zip and _xtjb.zip respectively; merely a cosmetic change with no impact).

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Added two variants with alternating animations; bumped for update visibility (was on page 5).

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So awesome! Can you make it for Xperia P screen please?

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Sure, but I'll need you to upload the bootanimation.zip from the P's GB/ICS firmware (not JB - I already have that one) so I can generate the smoothed intro from those - unless you don't want that, that is. The Xperia go ones would probably look minuscule on that massive screen, plus upscaling looks terribad in general. Since I already have the stock JB bootanimation.zip for the P, I'll start working on the looping sequence first. Disregard, see edits below.
Edit:
Since the Xperia T's boot animation frames are exactly the same size as the P's, I'll simply keep them as-is (i.e. I'll leave them untouched as .jpg files) and merely do renames to keep them in order.
The Xperia Tablet S' boot animation, on the other hand, needs to be resized, so I'll convert everything into .png files to preserve them and prevent further quality degradation (JPEG compression discards data with each compression pass, so I was pretty dismayed when I noticed that Sony used it in its newer boot animations :/ ).
Edit 2:
Okay, I've got the stock bootanimation.zip from the P's GB firmware, will work on the smooth introductory sequence.

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forget about it then

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Hmm, that's odd since my script only alters the permissions of the bootanimation.zip alone and nothing else. Possibly coincidence?

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I've Downloaded the XT boot animation for P and it Works great!
Thanks!

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It's good to hear that it's working fine for you and that you like it, that means my little idea of mixing the animations is working out pretty well.

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celeritykid said:
thx. nice one. but i have a problem here. my livewallpaper would not save after flashing xtsjb and xtjb bootanimation. there was no such problem when i flash the smooth stock bootanimation. any idea?
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Please friend
Do not quote the op
Kindly edit the post as it makes the post unnecessarily longer
Thank You

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Can you make one for Xperia U?

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I'll need you to upload the stock bootanimation.zip from the U's GB/ICS firmware and its JB firmware so I can make a complete version for it (although I already have larger ones from the P's boot animations, I try to avoid scaling images and stick with the pristine ones for maximum quality).
Edit:
Whoops, brainfart - just remembered that the Xperia U and sola phones don't have official JB firmwares, so I'll generate resized versions from the P's boot animation. Now I'll only need you to upload the GB/ICS one.

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I have got a Xperia Z bootanimation for Xperia U, the alternating boot animation seems better.
It will be fine if you can make a good quality bootanimation like Xperia T, if it is easier than making alternating. Will PM you the link

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Added Xperia sola and Xperia U versions; bumped for update visibility (was on page 2).

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Thanks a lot for making a bootanimation as I requested. Looking nice.

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Working perfectly on Xperia Go Stock JB 6.2.A.1.100
Excellent :laugh: thanks! :good:

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Awesome thanks :laugh: :good: