how to achieve "elegant" walking from a looped footage?

hi.

 

i have looping footage (63 frames) of walking chicken. chicken in footage making 2 full steps, moving right left, , loop begins again start.

 

as may imagine, when loop comes starting point (1st frame), chicken jolts right, starting point - mentioned, chicken walking right left.

 

my purpose make chicken walk across whole screen right left, i.e. cover considerably bigger distance 2 steps. if it's still unclear i'm trying do, refer first 5 seconds of video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv_k6n54iru

 

i kind of managed achieve purpose duplicating footage , placing each separate footage layers @ different time points , changing position of each layer. hard achieve smooth walk, chicken limping , jerking along way. have place each separate layer @ exact position have no reference point - have track chicken visualy , memorize last position on screen can , place other layer @ point.

 

anyway, limping chicken quite funny looking , if there no other means fix can kind of live this. let me know if there trick achieve normal, smooth walking.

 

btw tried animate chicken's still image puppet tool, results horrible

 

andrew devis has series of videos on creating walk cycle. here's 1 of videos:

http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/ae_ik-character-animation_2/1

 

this set of resources character animation, including creating walk cycles:

http://provideocoalition.com/ryoung/story/animate_a_character_in_after_effects

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