Okay, so just last night I finished downloading Adobe Flash CS6. I got straight to work this morning trying to learn how to use it. After a little while I had to basic idea of how stuff works, so I decided to look at some resources of pony animation. I knew from the start it would be complex from how it was set up. But I certainly wasn't prepared for this:

This is ONE FRAME of a Pinkie Pie dancing animation. Those boxes are different part of Pinkie's body which are set to move a certain way per frame. We see her legs, little bits of her mane, nose, eyes, tail, ears, and tons of little face parts. Clearly I vastly underestimated MLP:FiM Flash Animation. Gives a a great appreciation for the people chugging out these whole entire episodes.

Now my personal favorite of the animations include in the little resource I found would be the sonic rainboom. That's a beautiful thing to look at frame by frame. There's a lot of components and objects within it but it's great practice examining each individual frame closely. I know I should be starting simple but this is just to amazing to pass up. I might screw around with some of the animation files to see if I can abuse the way pony limbs are actually meant to look. Might make for some amusing shots of arms and legs bending in impossible ways. *Mischievous grin.*