Movement drawings

As I am coming closer to animating my model, I draw out a couple of ways in which my model could move. The first one would be just his feet moving back and forth to make him look as if he is walking but I was thinking it may look more light he is gliding. I will do a test on maya to see the outcome of that just incase. The second idea would be moving him with a sort of waddle. For example having him lean to the left so the right hand side is lifted and then rotating round slightly so when he comes down onto his right foot it will be slightly infront of his left. This will then give it more of an actual walk look instead of having him magically move across the floor with just his feet moving back and forth. For the first idea it would mean me creating a motion path which would be a lot simpler than moving him one step at a time with the second idea. I will see when it comes to testing these two ideas out in maya.