[RESOLVED] Alternative to using LoadPicture

[Shaq]

I'm making a game that involves a lot of different characters, and each time I want to change one of their motions I have to use LoadPicture to change the picture of the pictureBox that the Bitblt is reffering to, to paint it. I've noticed that LoadPicture is very inefficient and causes a little lag. Is there any other way I can reference the picture differently, instead of loading it to a picturebox? I can try to clarify this a little more if you don't understand.

I originally had very large sprite sheets for each character, that contained all the movements, but as I keep adding more characters I get the can't autoredraw image error. So the only thing I can think of to fix it is to split each big sprite sheet up into a sheet for each movement and use LoadPicture when changing motions. This lags a little bit each time it loads a picture though, so I was wondering if there was another way to to either load a picture into a picturebox or to somehow set the picture itself to a variable or something for the Bitblt statement to refer to for the .hdc value.