Need material for character anatomy in a 2D game. Spartan Like, See Picture

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Published on 2012-11-22T00:46:17Z Indexed on 2012/11/22 5:13 UTC
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I'm creating my art for an 2d based IOS game. I know some basic anatomy as you can see by the picture but I have no idea how I will make draw the pics for animation of the character walking, attacking with his sword and protecting himself with shield.

Is there any anatomy reference for 2d game out there, book or anything else?

for your information, I did try to find but all of stuff I found are very amateur and incomplete

The picture was my attempt of creating a example of the character walking, which I'm not happy with

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please help, thanks

Update:

Since I am in a hurry I decided I would copy the anatomy from other 2d games, it is not that clean but at least I wanna be able to start it. The question is still open.

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