Hello in 2002, I made dwarfs.
The old tutorials are there
http://prapilk.free.fr/LES_SPAWNEURS/ANI...mation.htm
Now it's easy to do all the animations and link with equipconv.
In summary:
The simplest is to extract the pictures in tiff with Uofiddler.
Modify them with batch processing in Photoshop. (resize and save)
Copy the .vd of the original animation on the free ID that we will link with bodyconv to have the color palette.
Then, you make a macro in autohotkey and 3 hours later and the automatic addition of the 1050 frames you have your animation.
For my part, the most technical is the neck and torso.
For the helmet, hair, bear and the weapons, a simple macro of 30 minutes to go down in Z and it is finished.
There you have the dwarfs on UO.