Can you animate a folder in the dock?

I am looking for a way to animate the dropbox folder in the dock, when something has been dropped in it by other users over a network.
Is there a third party software/plug-in for this?

If you usually keep that folder empty, then there is a way. Right-click or Control-click the icon of the folder, then choose Stack from the Display As section in the popup menu that appears.
Then, whenever anything is dropped into that folder its icon should change from generic folder to an icon resembling the item dropped into it.
Note - this will work only if you keep the folder empty. "Stack" mode will always display an icon other than that of a folder if there is something in the folder.
I keep my Downloads folder empty and set to Stack. This way I know immediately if I accidentally initiated a download, or if something else did.

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