Hi Bob,
Thank you for watching, I am glad you enjoyed it.
To answer your question is that I didn't use a walk cycle in the sense that it is not a repeating loop or a repeating cycle. It was pretty much painstakingly done step by step, one step at a time with lots of keyframes over the length of the entire distance. No shortcuts. My advice to you would be to just start doing it until you get a feel for it. Things will be messy at first but eventually, patterns and logic will start to emerge and you'll start getting the hang of it. However, nothing is automatic. It's a manual process and everyone develops their own approach. How did you rig your character?
The second answer is yes it is continuous, however, it didn't need to be. It could have easily been comprised of many different shapes.
This is your uphill climb
Joe.