Koh's New Sprite Joint

[Koh]

That's what I'm placing my bets on. Sprites by themselves usually look a bit odd anyway, but put them in their home environment with their programming, and they move along according to the actions fine.

I do like your critique though, because it's geared towards more realistic animation, where things have variable movement instead of linear movement. However, the reason you don't see all of that exaggerated movement you mentioned here is precisely because of your last statement; he's only walking. The running animation () has more exaggerated motion (look how far the arms and legs go in either direction, as well as the head movement), since that is a motion that requires the most effort. When you're walking, you won't be extending your leg nearly as much, since you're just casually taking each step, instead of forcefully kicking the leg off of the ground.

And you'll have separate animations for things like coming to a stop (skidding) anyway, so you aren't placing your bets on each body part moving at a variable motion for just one animation. You'll have an animation to take care of hair blowing in the wind from skidding, for instance.

The inbetween keyframes are just to help guide your eyes as to where the parts would have been in general, instead of them teleporting from one place to the other.