Running and Stretching and Defying Gravity

What it costs to make a character look good. As is often the case, a bunch of code has to be set up for something that happens in seconds for the final product; in this case the character now actually looks like something that's moving the way it's supposed to when running and jumping. Now imagine if its jumping didn't look like a slinky... Jim Varney choked at 50, ya know.