Help planning an image-sequence animation

Hi all,
I'm a bit of a newb here, haven't created something in Flash
for quite a while. I have created my sequence of images for my
animation, but I am unsure of how to build it in flash the 'smart'
way. I appreciate your time to respond and provide recommendations.
I have a golf ball, that I have 3 different logos. I've
created my 5-image blurred sequences for each version of the logos
on the golf ball. I could do this the hard way and sequence it
manually every rotation and blend the images as I go through each
version, but I'd really like to find a way to do this smarter with
actionscript. If there is an example out there that I could pull
from as for programming the actionscript to display the images
sequencially, pause for a specific amount of time on one image, to
show the logo, then begin sequencing the images again, pause,
repeat, and so on....
I really appreciate anyone's help in this, otherwise, I have
a lot of manual sequencing ahead of me :)
Thanks in advance.

You already made the correct change for this line:
Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(animation, "Source");
Use these two lines for the DiscreteKeyFrame:
  KeyTime = KeyTime.FromTimeSpan(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(50 *
(i-1))),
  Value = new BitmapImage(new Uri("ms-appx:///Images/win_" + i.ToString() + ".png"))
In the second line, I feed a BitmapImage to the animation instead of just a file path. This would also work in Silverlight, but the sample code took advantage of a Silverlight API that takes just the path and performs an automatic conversion to a bitmap. You
will also have to add a using statement:
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.Imaging;
For the KeyTime, I changed i to (i-1) to fix a bug in the sample code -- the timing should start at 0, but the sample project images are numbered starting from 1 (instead of 0). The sample project
is also missing image "win_3.png". These two items caused glitches in the animation.
This line is unnecessary and could be deleted:
  Resources.Add("Storyboard", storyboard);
Those were my only changes. The core parts of the xaml and C# are compatible and only needed to be copied and pasted from the Silverlight project to a Runtime project.

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