Excellent advice thank you.
I guess I need to get everything drawn in layers on a psd file..

Complete newbie here, so forgive me. So I got my friend to draw a character for me. I now have a .psd file with a character kind of forward looking. How do I start to animate him? Do I need other drawings of him? Do I need it to be in a vector format? Just want to know how to get started really. Tha...