I thought I'd try out the old flash again, and having found a decent site for helping complete flash noobs, here's my result. There aint a lot of animation... but its a start in to making characters, I guess. http://img260.echo.cx/my.php?image=head5kq.swf
getting there... http://img260.echo.cx/my.php?image=fight8rv.swf still no idea how the professionals do it, its incredible tbh.
http://freeflashtutorials.com/ altho you only get a certain amount of free tuts, it gave me a huge insight to the working s of flash, although not enough,
Maybe [link=http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash]here[/link]