How the use of visual and aural tools in animated films influence viewer's emotions

Abstract

Long before I started writing this paper, I was wondering what it takes to be an animator. I was thinking about all aspects of their work, but most important question in my mind at that time was: “how do they come up with those incredible ideas?”. During my research, I discovered that it’s not only good idea that makes a masterpiece, it takes so much more; and later I found out on practice how difficult it actually is. Going through all the steps of making an animated movie, like coming up with the idea, creating music, making a character believable and even visual storytelling, I tried to set an example from real life people who helped to bring such masterpieces as The Lion King, WALL-E or even, arguably, Rick and Morty into life. In the end, writing this paper helped me realize how much work of many talented people is put into an animation movie that audience only gets to see for an hour and a half, in most cases. Of course, that doesn’t change the fact that some of those movies are good enough to be called masterpieces so people who already saw it watch it again, and again, and even pass it for their children to see decades later. That is exactly how movies become timeless, and in this thesis I am trying to figure out how to achieve that goal.