User:MrJam003/Animated Sprites Render

What are animated sprites?
Animated sprites are used on this wiki to illustrate the in-game appearance of items. Here are a few examples I made myself:

How do you/can I make them?
The process is quite easy, but please note that animations for items without an enchantment glint are significantly easier to create.

Simple animations
1. Get each frames of the desired animation directly from the "minecraft.jar" and name them according to its order of appearance in the animation.

2. Make sure to resize each frame to the proper size of 32x32 pixels making sure to use Nearest Neighbor interpolation. 3. Using an image editing software capable of exporting animations like GIMP, create the animation. (Note: The following applies only to this software.)
 * 3.1 Click  and shift-select all of your files.
 * 3.2 Click, select the desired export location and click "Select file type" at the bottom, select   and click Export.
 * 3.3 In the window that appears, uncheck "GIF Comment" and check "As animation" as well as "Loop forever". Set the Frame disposal to "One frame per layer (replace)" and input the proper delay per frame in milliseconds, then export the final image.

4. If you want, you may use free software like FileOptimizer to reduce the size of your file. By default, FileOptimizer will be "Lossless", meaning it won't degrade the visual aspect of the animation.

Enchanted animations
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