Problems with scene and change

Old character design

One of my main objectives was to create a scene that illustrated the arrival of the passengers from the caribbean, I wanted to depict a similar image when they arrived. I came up with a walk cycle that worked, I refereed to the walk cycle for animation on the internet and worked according to that but I struggled to fit both the walking of the character and the character into the scene because he would either walk too fast or  would not look like he was walking on air because his feet were not fully fixed to the floor which made things really difficult for me. Anticipating the movement was not working out so I decided to create a similar scene where the passengers looked more like a crowed looking onto England and its signs. I felt this scene would be a lot easier due to the lack of anticipation which mean't all I had to do was to move the silhouettes accordingly.    

Old scenery

Newly developed replacement