Haha, that's mah boy!
Thanks Juggernaut for the kind words towards him. Naturally though he did have a seasoned animator heavily supervising what he was doing, so I guess you could say he's lucky!
I am confident he will do well with me not around. (He's 800 miles away from where I live, I'm just visiting).
And TanOak, keep up the good work. Another thing you can do to prevent light flicker would be to make sure there's no light sources behind you, which I think was the issue in this little test of ours.
Into the darkness once more. I walk into the unknown. To a far better life than I've ever known.