ANIMATING IN CHARSET

I'm just wondering if anyone knows how to animate well using charsets as I'm having trouble trying to produce good animation using charsets when my character is reloading or getting hit and when trying to show enemies getting hit by bullets and random blood spurts.

Now I can display the muzzle flash using a battle animation but I can only display a battle animation one at a time so that leads me to think I need to display the rest of the animation using charsets.

A few examples of what I'm looking for: