[SOLVED]Giving the user ability to move an animation

[hrobohboy]

Hi! So I'm kind of new here, but I tried searching the forum (literally for the last two hours, reading all relevant posts) and found nothing that could particularly help me.
I am currently playing around with Lua and love (using the ZeroBrane IDE) and I have managed to make my little pac-man thing move its mouth; however, I don't seem to be having any luck making it move using the "wasd" keys. I will attach a zip file with the main.lua and the pngs, but here is the bulk of the code:

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function love.load()
  animation = {}
  frame = 1
  counter = 0
  love.graphics.setBackgroundColor({255, 255, 255})
  animation.x = 300
  animation.y = 300
  animation.speed = 100
  animation[1] = love.graphics.newImage("first.png")
  animation[2] = love.graphics.newImage("second.png")
end
function love.update(dt)
  counter = counter + dt
  if counter >=0.2 then
    counter = 0
    frame = frame +1
    if frame == 3 then
      frame = 1
    end
  end
  if love.keyboard.isDown("a") then
      animation.x = animation.x - animation.speed*dt
  elseif love.keyboard.isDown("s") then
      animation.y = animation.y + animation.speed*dt
  elseif love.keyboard.isDown("d") then
      animation.x = animation.x + animation.speed*dt
  elseif love.keyboard.isDown("w") then
      animation.y = animation.y - animation.speed*dt
end
end

function love.draw()
  love.graphics.draw(animation[frame], 0, 0)
end

I also know that there are simpler solutions to the whole animation thing, but I wanted to hard code it first, just to figure out how it really works. I really just want to understand why I can't get the stupid thing to move! I figure maybe I was doing something wrong with the animation table, but now I'm just kinda lost. Sorry for the weird naming as well, I'm going to end up using that folder for a bigger project once I get a better hold of Lua/Love. Any help is greatly appreciated!

[DaedalusYoung]

In your love.draw function, you're placing the animation sprite always at coordinates 0, 0. You must of course set this to animation.x and animation.y for it to put the image at those coordinates instead.

[hrobohboy]

I knew I was missing something simple! Thanks a bunch!