Thanks for the comments.  They provided LOL's as I read them and again later
as I remembered them during boring parts of a dinner party I went to late
Sunday afternoon.  There was both good advice and lots of good-natured
ribbing.

THE WALK: it's interesting that when I broke out Muybridge
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486202046/)  and compared those
rotoscopes to my walk cycle, I found that the main problem was with the
arms. Or at least with more natural arm movements I radically altered the
cycle to eliminate the hurried-walk-to-the-loo effect. I could have a
tough-guy-prowl or a  easy-going-goof  with just small changes to the hand
positions.  Changing the look and feel, the "straight-linedness" of the
*leg* movement, however, will be a task for another month, unless someone
has more highly specific criticisms.   The one defect I know of is that both
the heel and metatarsal (or "toe ball" as I call it) land at exactly the
same time.  Real people often place the heel down first.  With the geometry
of my figure, it is a *real* math headache to get this to happen (and not
have th foot break the plane of ground!).

THE COSTUME:  Yeah, I don't like it either, but I found the other patterns I
was trying were even more hideous. I suppose there's not much value after
all for a "pattern-based costume on a blob."

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