Creating animated Splash Screen in WPF - wpf

I would like to create an animated splash screen using WPF. All the tutorials I have come across actually renders text in animation.. For example, "loading module" etc. But I would like to animate the images inside the wpf splash screen code.
I have a png which acts like a background, and then I need to show some kind of animation with that. Do I need to use a .gif file or I can do it in WPF with DispatcherTimer and Storyboard.

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The Andy Lang apparently explained to make the splash screen with this single steps.
Please refer
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/38291/Implement-Splash-Screen-with-WPF
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