How Cinematographers Use Geometric Shapes to Tell Stories with Visuals: Analysis

     Through out the time of animation animators have made infamous, beloved, and odd characters. besides their action that made them memorable, what help us define them the roles that they were given? Geometric shapes help us conceive the idea of what role they hold, as in protagonist/lovable or evil/antagonist. This doesn't just apply to animators but all of cinematography.

     Geometric shapes have everything to do with animation when you truly pay attention to it. As being a former animator i can definitely see it. For instance,  though its not animation, what do you think of Sauron (TheDark Lord in Lord of the Rings). Isn't his armor very sharp, jagged? Also with animation, like the Horned king in The Black Cauldron, he's thin, sharp edged and sinister. Villans are usually filled with triangles (made up of for their shape). Take Maleficent for instance, her horns and face a practically made up with triangles. The antagonists tend to have sharper shapes that highlight the contour of their body. Another example, the Devil,  what is his goatee in the shape of? A sharp triangle. If you can put in subtly it will produce an emotional effect on the viewer without them even noticing.
     Another shape that gives off a emotional value is a square/quadrilateral. Think of the movie Up, the main protagonists face is made up of a square. Possibly meaning he's stuck in his old ways, he doesn't want to change to what society has now. I say that because when you see a younger version of him, his face is round. Quadrilaterals can also give off a feeling of being limited or trapped in whatever situation is being presented.
     When you think about it, looking at all these characters in movies, shapes being a part of what people associate in them makes perfect sense.