Animated head anchored to an animated body (for 2D pixelated graphics)

This step also included a lot of adjustments to find a compromise for which pixels of the chomp overlay should be transparent or opaque, as well as the mask (i.e. when necessary pixels where masked away, or unwanted pixels snuck beyond the mask

This step was repeated a few times when major adjustments were made

At a certain point, I was afraid I was going to need to set offsets for certain frames of the chomp when shown on certain frames of the run cycle. Luckily, after I got a better feel for choosing the right anchor point, this was unnecessary and I avoided any creepy misaligned configurations.

I used the Pixelmask extension for Starling to hide the usual head. I couldn't just move the mask around as a child image of the husky object. I needed to make a new display object that's the same width and height as the husky sprite, and animate the mask within that object.

At first, the animation would play once the food collided with the dog, which resulted in the actually chomp happening after the food exploded into crumbs. I added another hitbox that tells the dog to turn it's head back and get ready to chomp. This also makes for some pretty funny looks of disappointment from the dogs when you have a near-miss.