Advice: best way to crop for games and animation

Title may be misleading:
Constant workflow block I run into, after creating an image that needs to be dissected for animation and games, where each part will be rigged into an animated composition (think character with limbs being separate images). It is common to make a rough draft sketch, then save the pieces as images, connect them in the animation app, and come back to make adjustments to the pieces (within the whole).
I used to cut the pieces into separate layers, crop the image to the pixels on that layer, save the image, and then undo the crop- repeat for each piece.
Downsides to this is that the crop can be different each time after making slight adjustments, causing issues with the rigged animation. Also, if for some reason the crop isn't undone history can be lost and you may have just lost the whole thing.
So I started converting the pieces to smart objects, this creates a file that is perfectly trimmed to include all pixels- but alas, editing the image occurs within the individual layer, and so it is not convenient to see how the editing will effect the whole.
Following me?
Any tips from others who have done this sort of thing in the past?

To avoid the risk of messing up the history I would recommend using a Script to save all Layers to new, trimmed files, sort of like an adaption of »Export Layers to Files «.
Maybe someone over at
http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop/photoshop_scripting
could help you find an existing Script or to create one.

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