Modding Help Anyone know how to make sprite animations?

What the title says, I am new to this whole modding thing, and I figured Stardew Valley would be a good start given its sprite graphics and from what I read in other forums, easy to mod code. First off I just want to know how to make animations for the different sprites in the game.

 

The answer will depend on whether you want to modify an existing animation, or create a new one.

 

Ok, here we go.
You can (without API):
a) Edit any png files with existing sprite to change them
b) Add new sprites int the end of the png file and use:
b1) Map editor to add animated tiles
b2) Event system to make npc animations in events
c) Add new sprites in the new png and add that spritesheet to map or create a new NPC and use:
c1) Map editor to add animated tiles
c2) Event system to make npc animations in events
Event animation system syntax is something like:
animate Dog false false 120 20 21 22 23
Where 120 is frame interval and other things are frames.
No idea what first two variables are.
With API:
No idea. You can try to look at source of some mods with sprites.
Hope that helps.

 

Thanks for the replies, I'll keep fooling around with stuff to see if anything comes of it.