Many sprite objects or one sprite with many animations?

I'm worried about resource consumption on mobile. My game has a layout that a specific set of sprites is shown. Each sprite has a randomly selected appearance. How should I go with it?

A) I put sprites on the positions. Each contains many animations. Upon the start of the layout, I randomly select the animation for each one of them.

B) I put markers on the positions. Upon the start of the layout, I randomly create a sprite object with only 1 animation over the marker.

Which is more memory efficient for C3?

Both should be the same as the images will be loaded no matter what method you use.

You can check the tips on memory usage : construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/tips-and-guides/memory-usage

Perhaps you could use the "Load sprite from URL" action of the sprite object to actually load textures on the fly and, this way, load only a single animation frame in already placed/placeholder sprites.

Ok. Thank you.

I realize that if I add a lot of animations and not use it, the memory is still consumed. I will have to optimize my game big time as I use one sprite for foliage and has a lot of animation in it (like sharpLeaf, fatLeaf, etc.) This way every leaf I add, the memory is consumed for all the leaf animations in that sprite. So, the memory is used for the fatleaf even when the entire map doesn't have a fatLeaf in it.

No doubt my memory consumption is high :(