I was afraid I had to make an additional bone.. After you said that I mashed together an quick animation using what you said, but when I tried exporting it, everything that was set to be hidden from the beginning doesn't ever show up..
My animation involves a man smoking a cigar.
The Cigar is both on an additional bone for the hand and on an additional bone for the head, both copies of the image are hidden when the animation starts, and show up later on in the animation however when I use the export to .gif function, neither of the cigar bone images show up.
I don't know if it's a bug in the export feature of there's just some checkbox I have to check/uncheck.
Thank you for your help so far 😉