Thank you! I'm sure you can do it, I use mainly a good editing program to move and place the images and effects, but I plan to try frame-by-frame animations in the program soon too. So we'll see how that goes when it happens.
I use Sony Vegas Pro 18, or just Vegas Pro 18 as it's commonly called. I bought it while it was on sale for half off in a bundle, it's not cheap tho, but is has a lot of versatility and abilities. It's not too hard to get a basic grasp of if you have prior knowledge of editing programs, but the more advanced stuff takes time to learn.