Hi there, I'm Matt Sergei (do call me Matt, please) and have checked your EPS file in Adobe Illustrator (I'm using it just for grouping, renaming and exporting layers to SVG for animation).
I understand what you need yet my bid is for:
1. Grouping your characters to have shapes of each one as separate groups.
2. Isolating and grouping all other shapes on the scene (I guess you don't want to have the navigation - menu - layer, e.g. it will a part of website functionality).
3. Creating simple animations like characters appearing (dissolving in), talking balloons, shaking the bush leaves, turning lights on and off and *potentially* some lips moving and eyes blinking of the characters.
All will of course be the SVG animation, scripted with javascript "timeline" so it can have some randomness in it (e.g. not just simple loop).
This is the honest price for the animation scope of work, including of course web page demo preview.
Otherwise I'm a webmaster and IT developer, scripting web animations for 7+ years with CSS3, SVG and GreenSock javascript library (my main choice).
Let's discuss first - due to other work I cannot start before Monday, Augh 17th.
Regards and hope you're safe,
Matt