Hi there :) I heard what you said about the animation issue. If you're using images which display individual frame image files from your image folder one at a time in quick succession, you may want to look at movie sprites, instead? I'm still learning, but I'm interested in movie sprites myself and found the Ren'Py Tutorial game's Quickstart -> Video Playback section to be helpful. In that section, they talk about how movies can be displayed just like any other image (IE, like a sprite) and they touch on the fact that videos can have masks to make them transparent. They only mention that briefly in the tutorial, but there is a section of documentation which a kind person on Lemmasoft Forums pointed me to, which covers movie masking in more detail: https://renpy.org/doc/html/movie.html#Movie So, it seems like it's possible to make movie sprites which have transparency, and as far as I understand, playing movies is easier on Ren'Py than the manually-displaying-individual-frame-images method. (I think the movies should be .webm files, though.) I hope this may help. Regardless, I wish you well! :)