Issues with Adobe Animate Walking Tutorial

[Valesius]

The tutorial seems simple enough.  You choose the boy trekker character, select a background, insert the keyframes, create the motion tween and then move the background to create the illusion of a boy walking.  Every time I follow the steps though, my character is walking in place as if he's on a treadmill.  I have tried Adobe products in the past but never spent much time with them because I wanted products that were less frustrating.  However, almost every YouTuber I admire tells me that they use Adobe products when I ask them what they use and so I want to stick with it this time.  Please help.

[n. tilcheff]

I'd suggest you approach it methodically and learn how simpler things work first.

Some tutorials are available here: 

https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/tutorials.html

You may want to buy the excellent "How to cheat in Flash" book by Chris Georgenes.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZUU63P6/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

If you don't know what you are doing, you will be prone to making many small mistakes which lead to frustration and you will feel discouraged.

Just a warning: Avoid Motion Tweens and Bones. Both are very difficult to control and have no practical application in animation workflows.

Use only Classic Tweens and Shape Tweens.