Director-like multi-image "sprite" animation

[Richard Gaskin]

I may have a need soon to try my hand at putting together some 
mult-image sprite animations like the sort of thing we commonly see done 
in Director.

But since Director's engine is well optimized for that sort of thing and 
Rev isn't, I'm not sure Rev is up to the task.

For example, one of these "sprites" is a 900-frame animation of a 
walking figure that needs to be anti-aliased against an image 
background.  The figure itself is about 200px by 200px.

That's a lot of images, and I can't imagine that swapping those out of a 
button icon while also moving the button will be all that smooth.

Or can it be?

And what if I need to have two or three of those running at once?

Should I give it up, or have any of you had success doing this sort of 
thing in Rev?

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  Richard Gaskin
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