Essays on Animation

Spirited Away is an animated feature created by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki. The anime follows 10-year-old Chihiro and her parents as they come across an abandoned amusement park and stumble into an enchanted village filled with Japanese spirits . After Chihiro’s parents are turned into...

In Finding Nemo, a clownfish by the name of Marlin is an overprotective father who is aided by his new friend, an amnestic blue tang fish named Dory as he goes on an ocean wide journey to find his abducted son. On his journey to...

The film Finding Nemo is an animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film takes viewers through the journey of Marlin, a clownfish, who lives in the Great Barrier Reef. Marlin is overly cautious in all parts of...

The film WALL-E directed by Andrew Stanton follows a trash compactor robot named WALL-E who is now collecting all the garbage of an uninhabitable Earth. Humans haven’t resided in Earth over 700 years and have been sent to space by the Buy n Large (BnL)...

Every child born from the late 1990s and on has most likely grown up with this in common: watching Pixar movies. Pixar Animation Studios has been producing animated films for years, and have made 21 feature films as of 2019. Movies from Pixar often come...

In Andrew Stanton’s dystopian and post-apocalyptic movie ‘WALL-E’, several warnings and messages are promoted by Stanton to make sure our planet does not become the same Earth from Stanton’s prophetic film WALL-E. His warnings consist of but not limited to over-reliance on technology, the importance...

The year is 2008. I was around eight years old when I first saw an advertisement for this movie while watching Nickelodeon. The trailer really got me excited for the movie because I was always fascinated with robots and space as a kid. Now looking...

Vector calculus or Multivariable calculus is one of the most useful branches of mathematics for game development and computer animation. Games and computer graphics are defined by the three-dimensional world, where there is an x, y and z component for every vector defined by a...

Zootopia is an animated comedy film produced by Walt Disney Studios. It was directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore. The movie stars actors Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba and Jenny Slate. The movie tells the story of an unlikely partnership between a rabbit...

In the film Zootopia, a major theme is the classification of characters in the category of predator and prey, with the feral or predatory characters being viewed as a danger to the society. The film faces a challenge in effectively exhibiting this to audiences through...