Storage and compression methods for animated images

A method for displaying frame based content on a display comprising:

• receiving by a graphics processing unit a hardware animation content file;
• uploading a first texture frame comprising a first texture to a memory component of the graphics processing unit;
• directly by the graphics processing unit the first texture from the first texture frame;
• applying by the graphics processing unit a first delta frame to the first texture frame to determine a first texture delta;
• uploading the first texture delta;
• and
• rendering by the graphics processing unit an output image comprising the first texture and the first texture delta overlaid on the first texture.

A computing device comprising:

• a display;
• a memory component;
• and
• a main processing unit in communication with the display and the memory component, wherein the main processing unit is configured to perform the following operations:
• decompressing a content file;
• creating a plurality of texture frames from the decompressed content file;
• storing an initial texture frame in the memory component;
• and
• storing a plurality of delta frames in the memory component, wherein the plurality of delta frames comprise change data indicating changes between the initial texture frame and the respective delta frame.