2nd try looks pretty good to me, anim-wise.
3rd looks good so far.
Since it looks like you're aiming for a radically different color scheme on the 3rd try but the design seems pretty similar other than the nose, IMO it wouldn't be cheating to rework the 2nd anim a bit, change the colors there, alter the design to be like the 3rd...
Maybe my fellow (hyper purist?) PXers think otherwise