Puppet Tool - Copying and pasting a mesh

Hi,
I am new to After Effects and I am trying to animate an image of a character. I am going frame by frame to deform him so he looks like he's walking. I tried the motion sketch option but he looks
too deformed. Does anyone know how I can copy the deformations of his movements and paste them along the timeline so I don't have to do each one manually?
I am working on a PC.
Thank you.

Consider using the starch tool in spots that you want to make more rigid.
As for the pin movement - don't forget that you can express the position data to a Null object, and moving around the null might be easier than digging into a pile of pin data

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