Onward!

@Background Pony #0A4D  
Yeah, it’s pretty good for this kind of stuff.

@Badumsquish  
So Fireworks is a pretty good program for this kind of stuff? I almost universally hear people recomending inkscape.

@Keith Mowz  
The tracking would be the easy part, since Fireworks basically does all of that for you:  
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The top ’s what I started with (except moved center; they start off- of course in the first frame)
 
I can convert those two drawings to symbols (second ) and set them to move X distance in X direction in X number of frames, and it calculates all of that for me. Then I can tweak it however I want by draging those blue dots (each a frame) around.
 
Then I can edit one of the pictures as a symbol and add animation frames to it, and Fireworks literally does all the work of putting it together and timing it etc all by itself.
 
I don’t think the blink would be too hard, but it’s the animation of the flicking tail that I think would be difficult to do. I might try it though, since pretty much every other animation I made was done on a whim (and overall I’m proud of them).
 
 
For the record too, this was what was so heartbreaking about losing the first animation, since I made it before I knew what symbols were or how to use them, and made the track of it manually which took like an hour of repetitively going “Duplicate Frame, Click Pic, move X pixels right, duplicate frame, click pic, move X pixels right” etc etc. Then I lost it, then I found out about symbols inadvertenly while looking up if it was possible to recover fragmented Fireworks pics and someone was like “lol noob why didn’t you symbol?”