Learning to animate with Flash

Here's a zebra that I am learning to animate. I am used to drawing realistic, so this is only a test zebra. I will have to make him look more cartoon-like. That is, once I understand flash better.

Once I have a character I am happy with, I will have to draw every piece of the zebra. Kind of like the caveman template below. Then with all the zebra pieces, I can start to animate. Still a ways off yet.

Here's some screen grabs of my test zebra: