[Buddahaid]

Thank you, these were a huge job to sort out.

I use Arduino code to drive an 8x8 matrix driver board for the sequencing LEDs. That allows you to control up to 64 LEDs which don't have to be physically lined up in the matrix as long as they are wired up as columns and rows.

The animation is about forty or so frames long and then repeats. Essentially you make one Illustrator image that gets modified for the next frame etc. until you have enough for the animation. Those get exported into Photoshop which allows them to be sequenced into a timeline video that can be converted to mp4, or GIF, for that matter.