I've experimented with Anime Studio before, and I really don't think it's what I'm looking for. The learning curve for it seems very steep, and though it makes animating very easy in some areas, it does have its limits. The amount of effort required to do something as simple as turning a character's head makes doing such an action the old-fashioned way much more inviting, at least for me.

There also doesn't seem to be any way of editing raster images once they've been imported into Anime Studio (e.g., changing the color of a part of the image, changing the shape of it, etc.).