Ok this is a pretty general question becasuse there isnt really any too to make a cartoon guy for you with. what you do is just draw it out, which can be done in flash itself. Thats what i would do. In the flash MX section here Kitiara did a cartoon tutorial, so you might want to check that out.
draw your character in Flash/AI then cut up the drawing into the parts you want to manipulate independently (i.e. hands, legs, head, etc.). Do this in flash and make movie cliips for each part and now you manipulate all of them seperatly throughout the timeline!
I generally draw straight in Flash. but if you use Illustrator then you can just cut and paste or import. But the idea is to divide up the body into sections, then manipulate as needed…
It’s just very very simple animation theory… The difficult part is actually managing to get it working right. I keep meaning to write a part 2 for it, about more complicated cartoons, and backgrounds etc. Maybe things like walking…
lol that would be nice! i am gonna look at it agian cause i am going to make a cartoon tomorrow i think with my buddies who are interested in this kinda stuff.