How to make your own Startup/Shutdown animations

Learn to Make Your Own shutdown animation -Using Photoshop
1. Download Resource Tuner and install http://www.restuner.com/
2. Download Animations.zip and unzip contents
3. Use resource tuner to open ShutDownAni_DMDO_000.dll for shutdown or StartUpAni_DMDO_000.dll for startup.
4. Right click on one of the BMP images, and select Save Multiple resources. Browse to a location of you choosing and save.
5. Go to the location where you saved the resources. You should see 28 .bmp images for the startup and 21 for the shutdown.
6. Before editing an image, first Go to Image - Mode - RGB
7. Edit your image
8. When finishing an image go to Image - Mode - Index. A popup will appear with options.
9. In this pop-up you'll see a drop down menu next to Pallete, drop down the menu and select Local (Perceptual). Click ok. (Skipping this step will result in undesirable results)   Confirm that you want layers to be flattened (may not ask)
10. Save your image. (Never use the SAVE AS option. doing so will alter the image rendering it useless in the shutdown animation.)
11. After you have edited your images go back to resource tuner and open ShutDownAni_DMDO_000.dll or StartUpAni_DMDO_000.dll
12. Double click on the resources within the .dll, this will open a new window
13. In the new window you should see a folder with an arrow near the top (will be to the left of "replacement source", Browse to your new image (should correspond in) and select it. Confirm the replacement of the image. Press ok to the popup window. Repeat process until all images have been replaced. (if you get an error message you saved your images incorrectly)
14. After replacing images save the file, it does not matter where you save it. If you chose to replace the old file, the old file will be backed up automatically.
15. Now go into msigner folder. (provided with Animationsi.zip) Open siggner.exe, click on 'select file(s)', browse to your new ShutDownAni_DMDO_000.dll, and double click (or click open), Uncheck Save *.txt log files, Press Start Sign process!
16. After that you may edit the ShutDown.exe file (shutdown) or the StartUpAni.dll (startup) file which contains the sound portion of the animation. If you do not wish to have sound, then just delete the sound, save, and sign (sign StartUpAni.dll not ShutDown.exe). No tutorial will be provided for the sounds, the process is the same, no special settings needed, just save in .wav format.
17. now you will put your files into a cab. To do this download a program like WinCE CAB Manager. Save all files, hard coded to \Windows\.
18. Post your custom Animation in this thread if you feel like sharing.

*Note: I would like to thank zephnath on LG-Incite.com for the original post of this tutorial. Also the animations I attached came from the IQ. Something interesting I found in the Startup images were 3 AT&T logo images. Weird that that was on an IQ rom.

I really like the ringing animation on this phone.  It's the only animation I wouldn't change.

Pretty sure it's part of the dialer but it works the same way as the animations in the DLLs.

Alright first of all this is an awesome post. I used to have a fuze and the process is similar so your tutorial=good stuff

The bad news i tried doing this process for the sound file and i get to the cab creation in WINCe and when i try to install i get the unsuccessful installation because the file or setting is not digitally signed with a trusted certificate. I signed with the msigner.exe you supplied so i am baffled. I tried installing SDKcerts.cab that too didnt work. any ideas? greatly appreciated and what a great post.

Edit::
So there was some settings in wince that allowed me to successfully install it but now no sound plays at all at start up. Still investigating any insights would be great. But ill get to the bottom of this. I have to i want to change that darn startup sound