Nice character and the animation is very smooth . watching your samples i kept hearing the "cartoon sounds" that go with them...or was that just ringing in my ears.. .
Debris right now is small sprite emitter but will probably add more model pieces to final explosionhttp://johnl.inform.net/pages/fly.htmhttp://johnl.inform.net/pages/fly.htm
small moving test this is too fast no real setup other than to test some ideas but the ship is being attached ( different layer) and will become history
http://johnl.inform.net/pages/8new.htm