Thanks everybody, this has been most informative.
I will be messing around with it once I have dug a little deeper into lua.

.. AnAL Love? This just gets better and better lawl. Anyway I found this great "swf to sprite sheet" converter, if anyone is interested: http://easeljs.com/zoe.html How well does it handle large sheets? I played a couple games which featured some fairly large graphics and it was lagging pr...

Thanks! wow that code looks messy
Guess I got some work to do.

It's not hard to make on from a sprite sheet, just a little math and trial and error really.

Got any videos/text tutorials on this so I can get a closer look at the process?
To see if it looks similar to any of my other work environments.

Hello, I'm a artist/animator hobbyist. I have been using flash and flex library's for quite a while now. While flash is a great animators tool it lacks in performance when large objects are present on the stage, that kinda sucks when I'm trying to develop a fully vector based platformer. So I was th...