Adding animated cartoon characters in Captivate 5

Does anyone know if it is possible add animated cartoon characters into Captivate 5.0? I've done some investigation and believe this can be done using a character builder (detailed on www.mediasemantics.com). I'm fairly new to Captivate so would appreciate any advice on how to add this type of animation and any problems anyone has encountered do this.
Thanks

We've also used a product called Toon Boom on a project about a year ago to create animated cartoon characters and add them to a Captivate project.
http://www.toonboom.com/products/animate/
Though in theory it's also AS2 output, it worked fine in Captivate AS3 content. Don't know why.

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