stewelement

First off, I've looked through the stickied tutorials in the IE Modding thread and I couldn't find anything relating to editing creature animations(and the IWD>BG2 tutorial link was broken), but hopefully my request isn't too complicated. So here's what I'd like to do and I don't know if its possible : I'm currently in the process of writing a small NPC mod and I want to make a golem character with the earth elemental graphics as a starting point. I'd like to edit the earth elemental animations to suit the character I'm making. Is there an existing method to export the animations/edit them/import them back in as a new NPC?

I've seen something similar done in the Planar sphere mod where the Pain Elementals are palette swapped fire elementals.

Sorry if this is the wrong thread but I figured that if there was a resource available (tutorial, info, knowledgeable folks) I would find someone here to point me in the right direction.

Thank you.