[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] taboo5200:
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).