Great!
This is really quite a cool Flash - it beats the 'another stick flash *groan*' to death, it isn't boring at at all, humour, violence, action, its all there :)
Keep it up man this was a pleasure to watch. Especially since it is only your 2nd Flash.
To answer a few of your questions -
- Hardcore Flash guys take ages making them, eg. Brutality in the DBZ section took 80 hours. That Xiao-Xiao guy probably hasn't seen light for weeks before finishing one of those.
- There is no way to make a working human template thing, at least to my knowledge. All you can do is move the center point of the objects so you can change the rotation easier :)
- You do the tracing behind by having the animation as a separate movie clip, then putting it in the main timeline. Then a frame afterward you put in the same movie beneath it with an alpha value of like 60 or however transparent you want, and so on - I hope u get that.
- To do a ray of sunshine you would use the gradient fill on the rectangle or whatever shape you want there, and then get the mixer panel and set the transparency of each end to like, 40 and 10 and change them to cream or the like.
I hope that helps, I had to ask someone how to do a color fade gradient once :)