Looking at it, shouldn't be that hard, just take the basic C2 platformer example, set the player's opacity to 0, and stick a Canvas to the player (Rojo's Canvas plugin), then you can edit each pixel of the player. For animations , you just paste the player's sprite on the canvas (I guess not something ez to do for a newbie), more on hiring, hire people that are active helpers on the community, you can look at their post history on their profile, forget about people only active on the help wanted jobs section
I may make you an example if I have freetime (I kinda moved out from C2 to C\C++)