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LED matrix holiday animation pack: Happy Halloween, Merry Christmas, Valentine's countdown and 4th of July on LED panels
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LED Matrix Holiday Animation Pack: Original Animated Holiday Scenes and Countdowns for LED Panels

12 original animated holiday scenes with greetings and countdowns, laid out for 64x32 to 256x64 LED matrix panels.

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Requirements

  • Any LED matrix display or player that shows GIFs or PNGs
  • Optional player: Python 3; to drive a HUB75 panel directly, the rpi-rgb-led-matrix library on a Raspberry Pi

Turn an LED matrix into a year-round holiday display. Twelve original animated pixel-art scenes (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, the Fourth of July, Spring, Summer, Winter and Birthday) are each laid out by hand for 64x32, 64x64, 128x32, 128x64 and 256x64 panels, so nothing is cropped or blurry.

Every holiday includes a seamless ambient loop, a day-of greeting and a countdown: a ready-made image for every day from 30 DAYS to TOMORROW and TODAY, with the final week fully animated. They're standard looping GIFs and PNGs with crisp pixel text, so they work with any panel or player that shows a GIF.

An optional offline Python player picks the right file by date (Easter and Thanksgiving are calculated for any year) and can show it on a Raspberry Pi HUB75 matrix.

Built from a working system

Already running on our own setup. Proven doesn't automatically mean ready for yours: the status above says what's left.

  • The scenes and countdown behaviour come from the seasonal pages that run on our 256x64 LED wall

Features

12 original scenes

No characters or brands; generic pumpkins, trees, hearts, fireworks, flags and more.

Countdowns

30 days to TOMORROW and TODAY, with the final week animated.

Five panel sizes

64x32, 64x64, 128x32, 128x64 and 256x64, each with its own layout.

Crisp pixel text

Hard-edged text with no blurry fringes on real LEDs.

Plays anywhere

660 looping GIFs plus PNG stills; nothing to install.

Optional auto mode

An offline player that picks today's scene, with tested date rules.

What's included

  • animations/<holiday>/<size>/: ambient, greeting and countdown GIFs and PNGs
  • previews/: a contact sheet per holiday
  • player/play.py + holidays.json (optional)
  • README, INSTALL, CONFIGURATION, TROUBLESHOOTING, LICENSE, THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES

Tested, and known limits

  • Every GIF is decoded again and compared pixel by pixel with its source frames; every loop is seamless
  • No text is cropped at any size, and no grey anti-alias pixels survive
  • Player date logic: 24 tests including 15 known Easter dates, Thanksgiving, TOMORROW/TODAY and year rollover; deliberately broken date rules were caught

Limits

  • The player's direct-to-panel mode is tested against a stand-in for the matrix library, not on physical panels; the GIFs themselves need no software
  • Visuals only, no audio

Licence, updates and support

Licence

Personal licence: use it for yourself or your own business's internal work. No resale or sharing of the files. Using it with clients, or redistributing it, needs a commercial licence. Ask. Full terms.

Updates

Includes bug-fix updates to this version (1.x). Current version: 1.0.0. Changelog.

Support

Documentation included. Bug reports answered by email within 2 business days. One-to-one setup help isn't included. Report a problem.

Questions

Will it work on my display?

If your display or app can show a GIF at one of the five sizes, yes. We haven't tested specific brands, so we don't claim them.

Does it include music?

No. It's visuals only.

Can I use it in a shop window or bar?

The licence covers your own displays. Commercial venues need a commercial licence; ask.

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