Does copyimage work with animated images?

If I use copyimage on an animimage, will I be able to access the frames and such the same as if I had loaded the file normally?

Or do I have to use createimage and manaully copy the data over?

Yes.

Yes to your first questio. I've done it.

Ahm, I might have misunderstood you, but you can Copyrect for that.
Copyimage might cause a memory leak and is slower.