I've been able to make it mostly work. the resting graphic looks just a little weird because it shifts just slightly, but its close enough that I'm satisfied. The other thing I wasn't really able to fix was that when I resized all the graphics paint created a little bit of a distortion around the edges of the sprite and I don't really have the patience to clean it up, so they look like they're surrounded with a 1 pixel white aura.
Can someone point me to the directory of the spell/character definitions or are they encrypted? If so is there an editor anyone would suggest?