Lol! I remember doing that stuff in Microsoft Visual C++ back in the day.
You are talking about animations, right? As opposed to comics?
hmm. This one's not side by side though. Well, not specifically. A quick google turns up some Windows tools like Gold Disk Animation Works Interactive, Astound, and I'm quite certain there's an adobe tool for this too. Director?
was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.
-andrewdodd13