Quote Originally Posted by blanius
Make your penguin as a library item in the symbol library, Any changes to the library item. including animations will happen to ALL of the instances (copies) on the stage.

I see a tutorial coming hm......
Oooh. I'll give that a try, too. Thanks to all y'all I managed to do a rudimentary 6 frame walk cycle that actually looked halfway decent (the charachter looked like he had a bum right leg, but what the heck, it was my first time).

I thought you couldn't animate symbols?