Huh?
It would help a bit if you posted maybe a visual of what you're trying to accomplish.
Flash has a very specific "look" to it, which you're going to be fighting with a lot if you're going straight from drawing traditionally. It's good at doing very smooth stylized lines. You can animate really rough in it, but it'll fight you every step of the way.
Say you wanted a nice "pencil-y" line, for instance? You'd have to import it from Illustrator, "Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends" style.
Are you talking about just doing rough-looking frame-by-frame cel animation? There are better ways to do it. I animated one of my first pieces in college by onion-skinning Photoshop layers and sequencing 'em in After Effects (which was a bit backwards, but you can do it).
It sounds like your prof is talking out of his ass about Flash, which is pretty typical. I didn't know what a nested symbol was until I got a job.
I'd say, take a look at various "bitmap-based" 2D programs like Mirage and see if they can do what you're trying to do.
example:
http://www.bauhaussoftware.com/ -makers of Mirage, one of my 2D buddies was trying to get our old studio to switch to this
http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pe...ex.php?id=Home -open-source 2D program called "Pencil", haven't tried it yet, sounds promising
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