A great way to create motion for animated characters in an adventure game is by using or rotoscoping video references. You can find a number of videos on Youtube that show profile and front references of a person walking. Personally I found this a great help in creating realistic animation without much skill as an animator!
I've compiled a few youtube videos below that I personally found useful. If you would like to save these for offline viewing, i suggest using a service such as KeepVid which allows you to paste a youtube link and save the file in its original format. Then all you need do is open the quicktime in Photoshop, add a new layer on top and simply trace the frames. And yes, unknown to many people you can indeed open a quicktime file in photoshop and play it. Give it a try :)
And now the videos; (in all cases take a look at the channels for each respective video, as a number of them have multiple examples of motion.)
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