Below are several Flash tutorials to help you in creating animated characters.
Don't forget each moving part of the character should be on it's own layer as it's own symbol for motion tweening,
but if you want to keyframe the character you can have all the symbols on the same layer.
To watch a video tutorial that shows how to tween an arm waving click here.
Above is a student example of the walking cycleby Anysa Medearis-Bailey.
Above is a tutorial for the walk cycle in Flash. Click here for a full screen version.
Above is a tutorial for the keyframing a breakdancer in Flash. Click here for a full screen version.