ESP8266 OLED Eye Animation

I’m working on a small ESP8266-based gadget that drives a 0.96" I²C OLED (address 0x3C). The goal is to bring the screen to life with playful eye animations along with some stylish text effects.

Where I’m at:
• The hardware is wired and running on the standard Adafruit SSD1306 / GFX stack (happy to switch to U8g2 or another lightweight library if it helps).
• I already sketched a few eye frames in monochrome bitmap format, but I need additional poses and a clean way to render them in sequence without chewing through ESP8266 memory.

What I need from you:
1. Extend my existing bitmap set with new frames/expressions so the eyes feel lively.
2. Write well-structured Arduino code that plays these animations smoothly on the 0.96" display.
3. Add a simple text routine that can show short messages with flair—think scroll-in, fade-out, or other lightweight effects that won’t stall the Wi-Fi stack.
4. Keep RAM/flash use modest; PROGMEM sprites and double-buffer tricks are welcome.
5. Deliver the .ino file, any helper classes, and the final bitmap assets so I can drop them straight into PlatformIO or the Arduino IDE.

I’ll share my current bitmaps and test sketch once we start. If you’re comfortable squeezing slick visuals out of tiny OLEDs and know your way around the ESP8266, I’d love to see your approach and a quick demo GIF or video of similar work.