More Like Prince Oblivious

"Wait, this guy is a leader of a country?"
"Do you have a problem with that?"
"Not at all - I would just love to know when does he actually do any leading if he gets kidnapped all the time."

Created for StarScribbles. Features my slightly silly view of Prince Apricot of Everfree Kingdom. Apparently, the Prince has a tendency for being kidnapped. I think I know why.

Technical

Still image created with inkscape.
The animations were made with aniGen.
Exported with Adasek's SVGRender addon for Firefox. AniGen's export is still a bit buggy when it comes to filters.

You too can make animations with AniGen!

Main body of the work was done creating the trotting loop. However, the movement itself proved to be a nice little excercise in timing and not-so-obvious repetition. Of course, the nature of the image means the GIF is quite large even after it's been optimized. After all, each frame is almost completely different from the previous one.

Links

Original SVG (valid)

As always, I appreciate any comments, criticisms and discussions in the comments.