Flash Game : Cutscene Exploration

I'm working on cutscenes for a flash game. The voices already have been recorded and the storyboard was given to me, but I was given complete liberty in developing an artstyle. This is still kind of rough, but I wanted to test if I could get that childrens' book feel in the animation. The characters will be relatively simple, but I want those painterly backgrounds to give it warmth and texture.

Just to try things out I also tried something very different: