Movie Geometry - Shaping the Way You Think

Shapes have meaning. That may sound crazy, but hear me out. Let's explore how cinematographers and directors create shapes inside the frame to add visual storytelling to their films.
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Movies (in Order of Appearance):
Ghostbusters (1984)
Up (2009)
Spirited Away (2001)
Wreck It Ralph (2012)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
The Jungle Book (1967)
The Dictator (2012)
The Emperor's New Groove (200)
Futurama "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (2003)
Ratatouille (2007)
Star Wars (1977)
Spaceballs (1987)
Maleficent (2014)
Up (2009)
Inside Out (2015)
Fargo (1996)
Psycho (1960)
The Incredibles (2004)
The Departed (2005)
The Truman Show (1998)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
American Beauty (1999)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Graduate (1967)
Metropolis (1927)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
The Shining (1980)

[@mubiusford8693]

What about Phineas from Phineas and Ferb isn't he like the pure evil ?

[@nihilisticalbino]

LOL

[@seabassthegamer6644]

I know I'm a year late, but Phineas was originally intended to be snarky, which could be considered as more "evil". They might have kept it because they didn't want to redraw him.

[@spacey_mikey]

Sharp edges can also symbolize clever or "sharp" characters, and Phineas is a genius

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[@dreamerx360]

i love how friendly and lovable the death star was.

[@ernovincze2900]

The Death Star is round, but it's all covered in angular plates.

[@obsrvdsplash115]

Shape language isn't an absolute rule, besides, why do you think the star destroyers are triangles?

[@id104335409]

It is a ray of hope in the galaxy!

[@Beigemage0621]

Thats the true genius of the death star, a simple feeling of a patriotic imperial symbol, good-round. .... Then multiple beams shoot out and you see it. The the path of the beams side by side are triangles as the beams converge at the center an combine into one. Then planets die. Evil in a subliminal flash.

[@katphisH11]

The Tie Fighters as well vs the X-wings. But the mon calamari ships are bulbuous and round in contrast to the star destroyers.

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[@woodman2855]

exurb1a It's a very eloquent explanation, but it's really just explaining the most basic rules of composition of which "geometry" is used as a synonym as

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[@erikjelle835]

An interesting thing i've found wile watching some movies is when in a scene is abot to end, it's quiet and the audio of the next scene comes in before the visual. You can see it a lot in boardwalk empire.

[@sebcubille]

J-Cut. Usually it's to ease in sharp/loud audio (like a train or something). Named J cut because when your editing audio and video separately the audio strip comes slightly before which gives it a "j" shape [video] [ audio ]

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[@anthonykf99]

Is it weird that I already knew this, but didn't realize I knew it until I watched the video? Like, what you said was both common sense and new information...

[@RedTypeg]

Like when you hear a "rounded" name and associate it with someone fat(like Baloo)

[@hear-and-know]

Isn't this doublethinking?

[@charlesrichard1891]

I think it's what is magnificitent with Cinema, it's all common sens but you have to think about it all the time to have a decent and easy understanding movie. Lead viewer to understand their feeling is the base of all type of cinema movie and one of the hardest to keep in mind when you want to make something cinematic

[@StarryxNight5]

@@RedTypeg Baloo means bear in a hindi i think. So maybe even they associated these death machines with round.

[@Ebani]

It's weird you think you already knew it

[@FragMentEditing]

As someone who studies animation, this is not a coincidence. They teach this concept of using shapes in character design from the very beginning.

[@vinayseth1114]

Hmm but do you think it can cause a mental block in students by creating preconceived ideas of what ideas SHOULD look like, instead of the student figuring out on their own? I mean, how much of all of this is really rooted in our actual visceral reaction, and how much has evolved as an artificially created game of language, I wonder.

[@karltoontv]

I do see your point, but using shapes when designing characters for animation makes the character look so much better.

[@AxelDawgman]

ever think that sometimes concepts trying to draw meaning from abstract are counterproductive? Abstract = no meaning. so trying to say that abstract shapes have meaning is just inherently wrong because you're trying to say 1=0

[@parkerdoll2766]

@@AxelDawgman abstract is really not that

[@jzi4]

@David Priscak Dude said that he was studying animation, so how is he selling out in something that he isn't doing professionally yet and who are you talking about when you say "them"? And MOST importantly, can I have some of what you are smoking? 🤣

[@TheKingShyGuy.]

Can you do an episode on plot twist?

[@jimzawacki3041]

What a twist!

[@StolenPvP]

Thekingshyguy I hate videos on plot twists. It always spoils so many movies.

[@TheKingShyGuy.]

Stolen. Fair point

[@Narutero98]

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[@andrewwainner9706]

Solution: post a crawl at the start that lists the films about to be spoiled, then watch them?

[@MultiWilliam15]

Am I the only one thinking that many people associate Kiki with that spiky shape and Bouba with that curvy shape because the letter K appears twice in Kiki and the letter K is pointed? Meanwhile, Bouba is more associated with curves since the letter B appears twice in that word and the appearance of B has two curves in it.

[@PauLtus_B]

As that would work through different languages, it would mean it also works with when these sounds would be written in Chinese or something. That said it may not be coincidence. You could also argue that we started to write the "K" sound as a pretty sharp form because it's a sharp sound. Like the i's look and sound sharper and the B, O and U look and sound more "round". Even think about how "tense" we have to keep our face when we make these sound, and looking at the sound frequency spectrum these sharper sounds are more likely to have more peaks in the higher ranges.

[@PauLtus_B]

Also: am I the only who hopes that one day people will stop using "am I the only one" in front of sentences.

[@MultiWilliam15]

PauLtus B 'Am I the only one' is a hyperbole. Obviously, I don't think I'm the only one who thinks like that. I just want to open some conversation about the said topic because no one is talking about it. Anyways, I also think it has to do with association with sound. When we hear 'boing' we think of something bouncy or something curvy. Meanwhile, 'tick' sounds hard, as if it's the sound of two hard objects clashing. The bottom line is, I don't think it's just a work of coincidental correlation. There are many ways in which the letters B and K could represent some experiences, and we're just subconsciously following it.

[@PauLtus_B]

Liam Cirge And I support that line of thinking. But it certainly not just the letters. I do think it's a correlation between sound and shape and I therefore I think both the K and the kiki shape are sharp. But I don't think we consider the kiki shape more fitting with the word kiki because of the shape of the letters themselves.

[@jellypeanutbutter666]

Your ideas deserve better rhetoric.

[@muddi900]

Baloo was an anglicization of Bhaloo, the word for Bear in many South Asian languages.

[@PandeyPrashant]

Bhalu is Nepali for Bear. I'm Nepali. I had never noticed. SMH

[@AxelDawgman]

Bears kill you though, so why aren't bears called RAZNASTIES? this channel is handicapped.

[@ernovincze2900]

But perhaps the reason why "Bhalu" means "bear" because it consists of soft, round sounds, and bears are soft, round animals?

[@pranavathalye]

@@ernovincze2900 No, because it's comes from the Sanskrit word "Bhalluka". In Sanskrit, the word doesn't sound as cute. The idea that bears are such cute and cuddly animals is a modern one.

[@willyjones5201]

That's not Tamil boy 😯 . . .

[@TicketToEarth]

I've never once considered the importance of shapes in film. Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention. I can't wait to rewatch my favourite characters and analyse their shapes.

[@GNOLEB]

I don't even like movies but this guy makes me want to watch every single movie he shows

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[@Mattallica13526]

How do you not like movies? What is wrong with you

[@LinkEX]

Not liking movies? Well, that's an odd distaste towards a very broad medium that can pretty much take on any shape to tell a story.

[@-lazer-4890]

Javen well here is a list of movies that I recognize from this vid: Ghostbusters the Movie Spirited Away Wreck it Ralph UP Jungle Book Inside Out The Incredibles

[@danferno]

You just blew my mind in three different shapes.

[@juicydrop1062]

So... does this mean Kiki doesn’t love me?

[@elsathome6919]

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[@serranity4436]

This shit got me in my feelings

[@khyrianstorms]

I like that this one's short. Just the right amount to understand what you're trying to say :)

[@trevkr1421]

I love these videos. I'm not even into making movies, or even watching movies too often, but this is super interesting.

[@rexstuff4655]

To be pedantic: The character was named 'Baloo' because that was his name in the original book, long before there was animation to go with him. And, he was given the name 'Baloo', because 'baloo' is (roughly) the Hindi word for 'bear'. They didn't name him 'Baloo' to go with his cuddly and disarming nature, he already the name. But great video!

[@matt.pma.kresnaputra5458]

to all the viewers and interested cinephiles, read How to read a film by james monaco or Film art: an introduction by david bordwell. pretty cool, talks about shapes too, sculptures and shit.

[@LawAbidingCitizenHelloOfficer]

Thank you sir

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@Uluvu they never said watching wasn't an option :/

[@aburaraiger1855]

Does anyone else see the irony when one of the most iconically friendly, non-threatening film heroes is named Kiki and one of the most iconic villains is named Boba?

[@logan2669]

from what movie?

[@sangokuzumaki]

Boba Fett ? Well, Star Wars. And for kiki, Kiki's delivery service

[@logan2669]

ok thanks

[@LinkEX]

I wouldn't exactly consider Kiki among the most iconically friendly, but you definitely have a point. My guess would be that there are further associations with the sound of these words that haven't been discussed in this video. The vowel sounds are also somewhat associated with pitch, with front vowel sounds being seemingly higher than back vowel sounds. And since larger creatures have deeper voices, the dark "o" sounds in Boba Fett can feel more threatening. Meanwhile, Kiki has a sharp sound to her, but not necessarily harmful, and rather busy.

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This channel usually blows my mind anyway, but this video went above and beyond. I will never look at film the same way again.

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I was gonna say that

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Oh right, Freemasons do that stuff, right?

[@JohaQ]

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Marx debunked the elf people years ago

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[@samwallaceart288]

Only problem with this is it has a very limited frame of reference in terms of the larger spectrum of movies. The animated section, in terms of direct scrutiny, was nothing but Disney (aside from 5 seconds of Spirited Away during the introduction of the sub-topic). The question is, are these shapes prevailent because of base human nature or are they arbitrary convention? Showing examples from films not exclusive to Hollywood would have better served the point ...

[@English_Thespian]

Maybe the connection between shapes and characteristics/emotions are based in human nature, but filmmakers can deliberately exaggerate or exploit it to drive a point home to the audience.

[@samwallaceart288]

MusketWalrus I'm fascinated to know how different cultures go about it though, as over the years, different people hone in on different conventions; an obvious example being that European-descendants put emphasis on the mouth while Asian cultures are more impressed with the eyes, hence American animation having characters with larger mouths and Japanese anime having great big emotive eyes. You can even see it with their emoticons, :D vs ^-^

[@kurvos]

Not to mention, western animation emphasizes in different bodyshapes much more to show off different types of characters, while animes don't. Like, they CAN have crazy bodyshapes, but it's more inconsequential. It's more a focus on fashion trends in animes. Like, have you ever noticed how some male antagonist have lose straight hair hanging down below their shoulders, while no male protagonist has? Kinda ironic, seeing people tend to claim Japan is more open to guys being effeminate. But... at the same time, not really. Both that type of haircut and more effeminate behavior is associated with being evil, sadly... even to some extent in western stuff, but not as often in animation.

[@samwallaceart288]

kurvos In that respect I prefer anime, because characters aren't bound by their appearance. With older Disney films you pretty much know just seeing their silhouette what's going to happen to their character. Anime gives its characters a lot more flexibility.

[@kurvos]

Samuel Wallace Except, those traits makes it clear in anime you're a villain. You won't find a male protagonist with long straight lose hair reaching below the shoulder, feminine clothes, feminine behavior and mannerism, and with a clear interest in other men. Well, except if you watch yaoi I suppose. But outside of that, they make that clear of it being a villain. Which is equally bad to me.

[@Lobstrique]

how insanely cool is this :) thank you again. for helping us enjoy cinematography more and more

[@jellypeanutbutter666]

very insanely

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I’ll never understand why this channel isn’t at least three times bigger ;-; these videos are so intelligent, well thought out, and well made. Not just this video but the whole channel

[@autopilot.spoiltideas]

the reason why Baloo's name is so (in The Jungle book) is because it comes from the word bhaaloo, which is Bear in hindi...since the story is based in India. Not because of bouba common...

[@Lagggerengineering]

2:33 I still remember looking at that scene for the first time and thinking: "That's the boxiest car I've ever seen" The only even boxier car is the Top Gear's electric car.

[@Orrmar]

Great to see another video, love your editing!

[@sleebs]

using basic geometric shapes is really effective when youre designing characters as an artist. this is a great video

[@LeWolfProject]

Just wanted to note that Baloo is actually just the Hindi word for "bear". The Jungle Book, of course, being set in India.

[@almostfamousaheep]

You sir, are a goddamn hero. You have no idea how many filmmakers you are influencing.

[@ButteredCalamari]

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[@milesbrown2261]

I LOVE it when films use geometry to tell stories! In hindsight that sounds kinda silly, but whatever, I love seeing the geometry and knowing it was intentional.

[@daveteves]

What's the first song used? The song that sounds like a Nujabes mix?

[@criztu]

jedda 41 - desmond

[@daveteves]

Hey hey hey hey! Thanks criztu!

[@sauravmishra2353]

My absolute favourite channel on movies!

[@Ten_Thousand_Locusts]

I can't wait for you to do a video on Luke Cage, so much imagery to talk about in that show.

[@jonassthr283]

Luke Cage is a prime example of why story comes first and imagery comes second, the characters a weak and undeveloped. The acting is bland and plain boring, the abilities and fight scenes have been shown before in both Daredevil and Jessica Jones. The story is totally uninteresting to me and predictable, and just a personal opinion, but it tries to shove the black community problem down our throat a little too much. But yes, the imagery is pretty good now and then, especially whenever Cottonmouth is there.

[@Ten_Thousand_Locusts]

I couldn't agree less with you. I think the writing is very good and the thing is Luke Cage isn't really about the fight scenes, it's about the characters and I think they are portrayed very well by their actors. Especially Cottonmouth. SPOILERS Even though he was the villain and overall bad guy, I couldn't help but feel a bit saddened when he got killed off so quickly, because he was such a great character. It was kinda like Killing Vaas in FC3 just about halfway through the game. It's very ballsy, to kill off an interesting character that early on and I think it paid of pretty well in Luke Cage.

[@BLAISEDAHL96]

3:00 some of the best foreshadowing in a video essay Ever. Something that DID age well!

[@jordan101096]

omg we just learned about the boba and Kiki experiment yesterday in psych class

[@13_13k]

Geometry and geometric shapes have been shaping and steering our minds since the earliest days of fine art. All or almost all Allegorical art, religious art, from as far back as the very beginning of Christianity and before is made from basic geometric shapes, especially paintings. Triangles direct your eyes to a point that the artist wanted to be the focal point. Horizons and vanishing points are triangles. I'm not going to give a complete art history class so I think you get the point.

[@pincio6167]

What about SpongeBob? Him, nicest: square Patrick, dumb: pointy Squidward, thug: soft

[@framemygaze]

Brilliant, well researched, written, edited and informative video essay

[@lapidations]

Japanese anime and games have millions of spiky heroes, like goku, yugioh guy and cloud.

[@GloGangBruceWayne]

Alot of anime fans are also pedophiles... So... Yea...

[@likeasambud9817]

Bruce Wayne fuck u dumbass

[@Greywander87]

@Evil Koala Eye shapes are used as a way of conveying a character's personality in anime. Often times a character with a confident or aggressive personality will have "tsurime" eyes, where the outer corners slant upward. This eye shape looks harsher. A character who is meek or shy will have "tareme" eyes, which are more rounded and slant downward on the outer corners. This eye shape looks softer. TV Tropes has a page for each of these. You should be able to find them by searching for either "tsurime" or "tareme". It helps to see it instead of trying to describe it.

[@lapidations]

​@@GloGangBruceWayne I won't even question the fact that what you wrote is absurd, what I'd like to know what's the connection between your response and my comment? Also, unless you have some form of evidence that anime fans are overrepresented in the group of pedophiles, I'll take your comment as "I'm a discriminatory person who extracts absolute truths from anecdotal data". If you like anecdotal data, here's for you: me and my 4 closest friends are anime fans. We're all either married to or dating girls who are within 1 year of our age. We never even dated girls outside of like 10% our age.

[@CRITicLawl]

As a professional editor, I enjoyed your brief but informative explanation as the info really resonates with how I see shot after shot on final cut. It also follows why I choose to like some shots over others or like certain characters more.

[@OdinComposer]

I read the timecode wrong and thought the video was 59 minutes long. I was actually dissappointed when it ended so quickly.

[@effingel]

Your videos make me a better filmmaker. Please never stop making videos

[@alexsasuke4434]

2:03 you call someone a square because they are never A-ROUND

[@chimedemon]

... okay

[@robwat94]

brilliant vid, I've just started a seminar series called filmic architecture, so this is super relevant.

[@julian6771]

I WAS JUST THINKING OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS HOW DOES KZbin KNOWWWWW

[@TokenFanatic]

Shhh, you're spoiling all the magic for DP's out there! Great video and work man, I wish my film school had showed me this video, would have replaced like a FEW classes.

[@mandymayne8759]

If Disney wanted live action Maleficent to have a triangular shaped, pointy featured face, why didn’t they cast Reese Witherspoon for the role?

[@freddyaguilar2793]

Wow! You're a life saver. I didn't get what fractals was until I watched this. Not to mention I have a 5 page essay due tomorrow morning and I barely found out what it means. This video makes so much sense!

[@alansmithee419]

0:30 As far as I can tell: sharp sounds (k), sharp object.

[@alansmithee419]

@person man if you want to spread propaganda do it somewhere where said propaganda is relevant instead of just randomly spreading hate. Neither the video, nor my comment relate to politics, let alone this specifically, in any way. If you have nothing better to do other than antagonising the left you're a part of the problem. Want to change minds? Quit the mockery and treat your opposition with respect. If you don't want to change minds, just stop.

[@ikidu1102]

@@alansmithee419 1.) Yes, it's Whataboutism, no doubt. 2.) But it's not propaganda. The arguments presented in the video that "person man" posted are based on facts, that the Left said literally themselves. 3.) Calling everything "propaganda" that doesn't fit your narrative is literally the opposite of "quit the mockery" and "treat your opposition with respect". 4.) And not to forget, that it has been a big majority of the Left (Democrats especially) that has been mocking and not treating their opponents with respect, for a couple of times now. Just today, two Democratic congresswomen were finally banned from visiting Israel, because of their anti-Israel and anti-semite hate speech, which they still did not apologize for. So, I advise you inform yourself better next time before issuing a statement based on emotional reactions. Thank you and have a nice day.

[@alansmithee419]

@@ikidu1102 sorry about the whole "propaganda" thing, I just don't really know what else to call it (I don't do politics that much so I really don't know what to say there), sorry for the misunderstanding. Your fourth point: both sides say this, and that leads to neither side actually trying to solve the problem. The mockery never ends because neither side can accept that they're doing it too, blame all of it on the opposition, and then we never get anywhere. Also, we have evidence of the right doing it right here: this person's comment, with nothing to go alongside the link (and a lack of response to me) was clearly a statement of "oh look here's something stupid that my opposition has done, you want to believe them now?" But of course you'll ignore that fact and just deny it. Don't defend his methods just because you agree with his overall point, surprisingly both the right and left are capable of being stupid. He was also clearly trying to spawn a hate filled comment thread (again, the lack of response provides evidence for this as well. I'm aware he could simply not have been online for this time, hence "evidence."), thankfully so far it's just been us, but I won't be responding again, lest it works (and to avoid the mess if it does anyway). And this'll be a shock for you: I agree with him too, but I don't agree with this blatant attempt to antagonise people with no productive value.

[@shyam8398]

I could listen to you talk about film all day.

[@tyler-qe7ls]

I am so triggered by the last Ghostbusters clip

[@vincev4630]

This blows my mind. Definitely a new way to approach design. Love it!

[@fisherman2359]

How much dope did you smoke to come up with this

[@Pssybart]

Is it a coincidence that the fluffiest and least threatening character in animation is named Baloo? Well, yes! If you read Rudyard Kipling's novel, Baloo was a very different character. He was a wise old mentor to Mowgli, and like most other characters in the book he kills to survive.

[@dannybenhur6123]

That's why Good Version Majin buu is so fluffy and round....Krillin is literally round and Vegeta has pointy chin and spiky hair who was introduced as a villian...

[@dikhed1983]

Already knew some of this, but you summed it all up perfectly.

[@CESSKAR]

This doesn't make sense to me. I know of this phenomenon for a long time but only as a linguistic relation, the extrapolation to good and evil is contradictory. Triangles, in fact, have a long tradition in mythology as representation of the divine. Horns, on the other hand were the divine symbol of the mesopotamian gods.

[@romanfox5368]

Yeah, there's actually lots of B.S. in this video I think. I'm sure we just get scared by things like knives/swords/sharp teeth and that's about it. Everything else is B.S. 1:50 funny how the eyes and mouth switch, yet he's trying to attribute it to him being less threatening for the comedy. Also, neglecting his tie.

[@KristyJean]

In mythology, but those stories don't apply to the world of design and our culture. In design we are taught the principles of visual communication. Designers use shapes, colors, contrast, composition as tools and depending on how you use it is where the magic really happens. Circles are seen as friendly and ignorant while triangles are seen as intelligent and threatening. All the other shapes have "feelings" as well. However, these rules can be broken. It's all about context.

[@CESSKAR]

ThereGoesKJ "Our culture". Okay, what about the rest of darth vaders's helmet? Round. Ultron? Round. Voldemort? Round... Does Spock's hand symbol represent evil? And what is that "world of design" you speak of? Did pre-modern artists know nothing of _design_? Anyway, the guy even says it is present in every culture and every historical time (and, indeed, the linguistic relation is).

[@AhmedAldoori]

To respond to your comment about contradictions; Vader's helmet, Ultron, Voldemort - (all being round) this is a specific thing artists/storytellers learn to use as a means of contrast. You make the character seem welcoming and nonthreatening on the outside silhouette, but his or her actions become an unexpected twist (evil). Not every sharp/pointy design is an evil character, but something in our subconscious recognizes sharp pointy things as threatening - spiders, scorpions, thorns, spikes, tiger stripes, etc. Whereas round things are certainly perceived as welcoming and cuddly - Kirby, Pikachu, Totoro, bean bags, balloons, mochi icecream, cupcakes... Imagine a cupcake that looks like a spiky sea urchin - a part of you would resist wanting to put that in your mouth. Things that are more square represent strength, rigidity, and solidity. Imagine a castle being round and curvy, it wouldn't seem as imposing. A lot of military things are also rectilinear (square-like) such as hummers, riot shields, as well as sci-fi armor (Master Chief). I've worked here and there on both movies and video games (GW2 being most recent) where this comes into play, and as a character artist, I can tell you this holds true at a very visceral level in terms of how we respond to shapes. I teach this exact concept in my class at Art Center College of Design, and it's up to the designer or storyteller to use his or her tools to their advantage in this regard.

[@CESSKAR]

Ahmed Aldoori Thanks for your comment. But, in any case, what would be the point of "You make the character seem welcoming and nonthreatening on the outside silhouette, but his or her actions become an unexpected twist" if those characters are already presented in a threatening way, like Darth Vader, with that musical tone? Voldemort, in the 4th film is presented also in a similar way. In the case of Ultron I can't remember. And the Pikachu example you give has the ears and the tail very spikey. I can also think of unicorns, a criature never associated with strength or violence, with that horn. As for the castles being round there are in fact a lot. The first ones in the early middle ages (VIII-IX) were like this, and later on, as a defensive system against artillery were also round, like the Bellver Castle (Majorca). Castles, as well as military tools, have always had an utilitarian priority. And I would say, some of the designs make the latter referential symbol, and not the other way around. Modern fire weapons, for example, have a threatening look wich, in ancient times, I don't think they would.

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[@somguy5035]

I feel sorry for people who watch movies while consciously thinking about things like framing, acting, foreshadowing, shapes, color, pans/zooms, etc.

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[@04dram04]

The Kiki and bouba makes perfect sense. The sharp angles looks like letter K in kiki and the round edges look like letter B in bouba

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The kiki and bouba thing for me was because kiki is a very sharp and harsh word while bouba is a very rounded and smooth word. If you look at them when they're written out, the letters K and I are both sharp lines and K has sharp angles, while every letter in bouba is rounded in some way. It works for the sound too, "ki" is a very harsh sound, while bou and ba are very soft sounds.

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This video was fascinating! I didn't actually realize the use of shapes in animation to portray characters in a way the artists and writers want the audience to view them. I never realized the use of a character's setting as a metaphor for the situation they're in, such as the use of blinds to portray a jail cell. I'm going to pay more attention to this as i watch movies and as i make short films!

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I said Kiki was the second one and Bouba was the first...

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Why so much symbolism? Can't there be a movie where things are just coincidentally that way?

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[@STANNco]

there are. A lot of them are, but all this isn't as much symbolism you need to find to understand, it works psychologically too. These imaginary squares and triangles actually have a subtle impact on how you view stuff

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In films by directors like Hitchock, Kubrick, Lynch, and the Coens almost nothing is coincidental when it comes to set design, costumes, and composition. And certainly nothing is coincidental in (well made) animation.

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It's less about symbolism and more about conveying a message (which, I admit is kind of symbolism's purpose). Mr. Plinkett puts this very nicely: "You didn't notice this kind of stuff... But your brain did."

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every material man made thing is taken from nature, nothing is really invented but borrowed ideas from the world around you.... everything in nature is geometry, geometric shapes are symbols, therefore symbolism is within everything.... It's only the spoken word that has put the symbolism into a subconscious state, although this can change.... a better understanding would be to look at cymatics.

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Nice work!!! Very straight forward with easy to understand wording and animation. I think this is a perfect illustration of how much symbolism means to our subconscious mind, much more than stringing together phonetic characters to get ideas across, symbols can and do speak to us, and they are all around us. Thanks again!!!

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I think the reason why Bouba and Kiki are associated with those shapes is because the letter "K" is sharp and the letter "B" is round. So of course they would associate it that way.

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