If you look at this image you will see what i mean. The top is a static image of lugia that doesnt animate, and the red eye edit works fine, while the bottom is the animated image of lugia, yet it has no red eye.
I checked through all of lugia's sprites and i know that 4982 should be the one for its animated sprite, and i did recheck my narc file to make sure both my edits stuck, and they did. I already have the palette edited, what im trying to do is change the color of the pixels around the eye, which im starting to think you cant edit the animated sprites that way.