Bones in a sprite or smth

Is there a way to make bones for a sprite like most of the other game making tools out there offer for better and easier animations and stuff? The problem is that i draw horribly without any template and it also would save a lot of space in the sheet.

There is SPLINK which let's you anchor one Sprite on another for things like a player holding a weapon or a multi segment dragons neck. This is probably what you want but would use up a lot of Sprite resources.