Fantastic shading very nice.

this is lovely! horses are so difficult

Looks kinda like it'd go in a close up RTS. I usualy would hate the pillow shading but it's just done so perfectly. Totaly Awsome

I'm rather surprised this has not garnered more comments and faves. It's amazing!

Animating that is way beyond what I could ever do. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't reach the current level either. Very smooth, very stylish.

Eventually this will be animated, and used in-game.  It's made fo two seperates sprites (horse and rider).  Actually, if you break it down, it's three sprites, as the armor is being used an an overlay on top of base sprites (there are different character classes and outfits).  The reason it's not AAed is due to the fact it's being used on varied terrain, from very light ice fields to dark caverns.

I think it's really nice, but if I made that and had no idea of using it on any background, I would have worked on some AA on the outline, else then that it's really good in all ways.

I really like this!  Excellent job!  It looks like it'd fit right in on an RPG.

Any plans to animate?

Nice smooth style.  Will this be for a game?