making animated .png's

[RhinoTrip]

Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro is probably your best bet for PNG editing, since you can easily handle alpha channels (transparencies). To animate, simply create a vertical strip containing x frames of animation, for example 10 frames of 50x50 animation would be a 50x500 file. Then use the <AnimatedLayer/> tag in skin.xml -- but it's buggy as heck at this point for any animations over about 30x30 pixels.