Best Approach for Rotoscoped Animation

I have spent some time trying to fix this, and have had no luck. Hoping this has been suggested before.

I am trying to create a more realistic animation in my game by using a rotoscoped walking animation. I have tried simply using velocity and 'normal' unity movement, and cannot get over the "conveyor belt" look of the character simply moving across the foor. Even when I feel that the speed is correct. I want to capture the acceleration and decelaration of each step.

The only approach I could think of was to use the pivot point of the leading foot through each step to ensure that the movement across the x axis looks as realistic as possible, and then imbetween animation frames move the character the required distance. This is where I'm having a problem. Regardless of whether I use code, animation events, c sharp state machine checks, I cannot achieve this. It doesn't seem possible to move the character 'between' frames.

Either the animation changes first, and then the x axis movement happens, or vica versa, resulting in what looks like a single frame jump backwards or forwards in the animation.

Has anyone ever tackled something like this before?

 

Actually, I think I managed to find away around it. Not sure if there is a better way, but the approach I went with was to delete the animation transitions, as I found they were getting in the way.

In the Update or FixedUpdate methods, I simply called a method to move the rigidbody of the character, and on the very next line triggered the next animation I needed through through code (Animator.Play()). The result was that the character movement and blend to the next animation seems to occur imbetween frame, so there's no jumping around on the x axis.

Appreciate it is going to be a lot of work to get a whole game working with that approach, but it really was the look I'm going for, so I've left my post up in case others have a better idea.

Only problem now that I've got a slightly more realistic movement with my character, is I can't help but think my rotoscoped walking animation is far more camp than I think suits the protagonist of my adventure. But that's next Sundays problem.