"Running" animation for an upcoming video game-based project I'm doing.
This is J.R., leader of the GadZOOKz. He's very muscular and "heroic"-looking, which makes him best-suited to lead his group. A lot of people expect him to act classically heroic as well, but really, he acts like a slightly odd 16 year old, which is really what he is. His pet peeve is when people call him "Junior" because they misread his name.
Ugh, I know. I'm not sure what to do about it though. It looks really cool when you just have him in one spot, but as soon as I tried making him move it just looked... flat.
Not enough bounce. It looks like he's stuck there moving forward without much feeling of propelling himself by his feet.
You ever look at the work of Eadweard Muybridge?
Look at more work from ol' EM for some more movement-related helpables.