A nice watch and a comedic idea. The whimsical animation is great. The effort shown is great in amount and obviously shown with your stablilty to show texture with humor in your work. Having RicePirate is a good add as well. I am a little effervescent with the lack of dialogue and although it clearly works fine without it, there would be a new layer of humor and a new feeling to the cartoon.
Nice job, I think you will pass this round in NATA and should get the prize is you start producing more even better material.