I've been doing animation mainly through the Motion Layer and have a couple of problems I can't figure out:
1 - When I change from pose to pose, the position of the feet slide relative to the origin:

Why is this and how can I stop it?

And 2:
When I'm in Motion Layer, the axis for the body parts seems to be Global?  This makes it very difficult to animate if a character is aligned in some other position.


I've been looking at tutorials and other stuff and can't seem to figure this out (although I'm sure I've read about it some time in the last year or so).  Sorry if these are stupid questions, but are they solvable?  What amm I missing here?

Thanks in advance!

--Bex.