Animating The Inanimate - A Walk Cycle's Adventure

Alrightly everybody, so.... In my Amimation and Visual Effects course at uni, my first assessment is a walk cycle. 10 seconds of pure hand drawn, animated goodness with a side of HD and footstep sounds! Naturally I started off REALLY exited about makeing my little guy bob up and down, taking his first steps.... I was such a proud "mother".

But the stress became stronger and the time in which I had to handed it in became shorter and soon I was onto my second version of the walk cycle...

I sat at the kitchen table and fought loong and hard for this basic sketch... Along with 13 of it's bretheren. All of them together make a some what smooth cycle, but alas, it was far from finished. I soon found an enemy in the animating of the arms. Their annoying subtleness and pain-in-the-butt-to-draw-ness... *sigh*

A CHARACTER IS WHAT I NEED!!!!

Toilet Door Man ACTIVATE!!!!
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Or so I thought...

Now I have a man with no arms and no neck walking along, waiting to be completed...

TO BE CONTINUED o.O