Designing and Animating Characters in Flash
Chris Georgenes, a full-time Flash freelancer, has posted a great tutorial on animating characters in Flash. In this tutorial, Chris details how to take characters from sketches to vector drawings in Flash to “2.5D” (almost 3D, just not quite 
For more on Chris Georgenes, check out his portfolio (www.mudbubble.com) or his blog (www.keyframer.com.) He is also a member of Team Macromedia.