Doraleous and Associates Ep 1: Form and Content Review

The style of animation while not incredibly professional definitely lends itself to the comedic tone of the show. The line quality while not perfect fits with the tone and is not even nearly bad enough to draw anyone away from the strong story and comedy of the animation. The animation itself could be described as jerky in certain actions, such as hands changing and other elements fully changing shape but arms moving purely on a 2D plane is reasonably smooth due to the fact that it is the same art using an anchor point to rotate on making the animation a lot smoother for those moments.
The colour and shading of the animation is simple and the background art is reasonably simplistic but quite effective and fits in well with the rest of the animation and tone of the animation as a whole. Music is used to add emphasis to scenes and make sure the correct tone is implied by certain moments or actions.

The characters are depicted in a way that is an extremely generic base template for certain character archetypes in a fantasy world or game such as Dungeons and Dragons and World of Warcraft and other things of that nature, the characters are still quirky comedy spins of the archetypes though so there design is exaggerated and wouldn't be mistaken for a straight serious take on the characters by a long shot.

The animation clearly makes reference to many fantasy action tropes but also more directly references (and takes the piss out of) things such as Gimli's line from Lord of the Rings saying "and my axe" as in having him accompany the fellowship, in a similar fashion the dwarf with an axe in this pledges his axe to Doraleous and an overemotional way that I would perceive as a parody of that scene in Lord of the Rings. They also go and see The Lady in the Lake a famous character from legend who if i recall correctly gave King Arther his sword and along with it the right to rule (though I am remembering this from Monty Pythons the search for the Holy Grail so don't take that as gospel)
The overall feel of the piece is definitely one that is satirical and light hearted, a similar fashion to Terry Pratchett's work whereas this is a more American spin on the fantasy parody when Terry Pratchett's are most certainly British in origin.