“Portraying emotions is fundamental to animated film”

Felix Gonnert is working as Professor of Computer Animation in the Animation Department at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. Noel Carroll described film emotions as "glue that holds the audience's" attention to the screen. Animated films are usually based on a clear communication of thoughts and feelings in order to stage the acting emotionally and cognitively comprehensible for the viewer. Most studios use the potential computer animation as a means of expressing emotions from very subtle to 'cartoony'. The character animation in turn is influenced by the design. The convergence between the analog world and the digital will increase more and more, and so the real world will become increasingly synthesized with the tools of computer animation and therefore able to be analyzed. A solid understanding of emotions, of facial expressions, and gestures is elemental. Basically, emotions and their unfolding in space and time in all animation techniques determine the expression of the figure.