Yay! Place of honor!

Some other people thought it was rotoscoped, but I don't even know how I would begin to rotoscope something. I know how it works in theory, but I don't have the tools... But I do take it as a great compliment when people say it looks rotoscoped. References? Not sure what that means in the animation world...

Everything in Chanter Tales is drawn with the mouse. I guess my techniques change a lot. Sometimes I make movieclips of Nuok walking in place, and then I tween the clip to make it move. Other times I FBF him walking from one point to another. In which case I'd use a more Disney-like technique, where I'd draw the starting and ending pictures, and then the one in between... Then I'd draw the frames in between each of those and so on.

Nope... I don't know what a "wacom tablet" is. I'm guessing it's some sort of drawing tool. I use a mouse.

Well... I guess I can't argue with the point that I'm a bad actor, because that's what most people say. But most of the time I was just narrating. I didn't feel as if I was doing anything different from any other narrator I've heard.

I'm not sure why you think this story has something to do with any cultures that have existed in our Earth's history. The cultures here are fictional. I wrote this intending for it to take place in an Earth-like world, not "Earth" as we know it. Lord of the Rings, as far as I know, didn't take place on our planet. Tolkein makes reference to things in our world like coffee, golf, and the weapons that were used in medieval times, but the races, cultures, countries, magic, and religions don't fit into our planet's history. The same goes for Ursula K. LeGuin's "Earthsea," or David Eddings' Belgariad series, or George R. R. Martin's "Game of Thrones."

I think that any time you encounter a story like this one, where you see magic, or anything that doesn't exist in our world, it's probably a safe assumption that it takes place in some kind of parallel dimension, where history and evolution, and even the laws of nature have taken a slightly different course. So yeah... I wasn't basing Nuok's culture on vikings or anything like that. He's got his own culture, and that culture has it's own unique practices.

But I'm glad you brought that up, because I've had people review me, thinking the same thing. One guy said the characters should have English accents... I didn't agree, because none of these characters are English. In their world, there is no "England" or "America." The movie that you're watching is essentially a story that has been modified for people in our dimension. Most likely, the characters here wouldn't even be speaking our language at all, so accents, I don't think, are even a factor.

Anyway, thanks for the comments.