Originally Posted by
schm0
You can, but he has his tied into a direct control seat that control's a sackbot. The sprite animation is emitted from the sackbot as it moves left and right. You could substitute a system of movers that move the emitters back and forth in lieu of using the sackbot controller, but the controls for moving left and right for a sackbot are already built in, thus saving a bit of logic.
You might also want to search for sprite tutorials now that PSN is back up, or look for other vids on youtube. I'm no expert, so there's probably all sorts of techniques and details that I'm leaving out. There may be some valuable information lurking right here on LBPC, in fact.