Nice Iso Sprite Animation on Fifa's flash game

No I'm not advertising for a game. Well, not really. Anyway there's this game on Facebook called Fifa Superstars by EA Sports, and it's a Flash game. http://apps.facebook.com/fifasuperst...&ref=bookmarks

What caught my interest was how they animated their character models using segmented components. You might think that's nothing special, but this is in Isometric 3D perspective! Every component in the character seems to be animated just by scaling and rotating and translating, with only a single frame! :eek:

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/8049/capturedix.png PS: I zoomed in so it's x2.

It's quite amazing that just rotation and scaling can produce a pretty realistic form in isometric 3d. I'm familiar with over-sized anime caricatures, but this, looks pretty sweet.

Or am I just ignorant? Are there more examples of isometric 3d characters animated using this method? I'm trying to look into the viability of this so I can do the same for my project.