The use of a narrator in this animation gives a nice context to it. The story itself was nice but I didn't find it anywhere near as funny as it seemed like it was trying to be. It was still enjoyable to see the reasons why Biorn's enemies were incapacitated. The animation style is a different story.
The animation did have some nice touches to it though such as the beautifully timed spear shot during the fight with a warrior and the eagle scene.
The short is comedic in it's approach with a lot of work clearly having gone into creating the environment and character designs (such as the symbols on the sword) with some 2D elements making it all seem very Scandanavian in it's look. Although the characters seem quite flat on the background, they still seem to convey weight and depth. The main character exudes a lot of body language and facial expressions that helps to convey his emotions.
This is coupled nicely with his roaring sounds but overall it seemed like a series of well timed shots and action scenes which reminded me a lot of Genndy Tartakovsky's style in "Samurai Jack" and "Sym-Bionic Titan".
This film seemed well paced with some nice follow through and secondary action on the characters' hair.
This animation is pretty powerful as it is engrossing but there are still some problems such as with the movement of the main character seeming off and the character design making some characters look strange in this cel shaded environment. Other than this, i enjoyed the animation as there were elements of the principles involved with some good strong storytelling that made this an effective animation to analyse.
Image reference: Samurai Jack, Genndy Tartakovsky, https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=samurai+jack+fight&espv=2&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_rMGxlrXQAhXlAMAKHUIDDqIQsAQIMw&biw=1920&bih=1094#imgrc=1dpX6g6lxGBJ9M%3A, Accessed 19/11/2016
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