Environmental Storytelling: Boxtrolls

The Boxtrolls is a film that I thoroughly enjoy and which also has a beautiful range of environments that help to tell the story in a number of imaginative ways. The thing I love the most about the environments within this film is the range of colour and the combinations of colour that are used to help convey the mood of that particular scene or place or even the mood of the character or situation. The film uses dark grungy colours for the overcrowded, misshaped cobble streets of Cheesebridge, which helps to convey this idea of things hiding in the shadows and lurking around the corners and the fact that the colours are mostly dark other than the warmth that radiates from the soft yellows and oranges of the lights, it still feels welcoming to me, as it is a setting that I am familiar with in my own life.

Another thing I love about the environments within this film is the depth that they create and the way that you feel drawn into them and feel as though you can step into the environments that are laid out before you. The sets used within this film are so wonderfully made and I really love how they are used within the film. They create these wonderful 3 dimensional worlds that are used extremely well in helping to convey the overall story of the film.

I also really love the style of the environments and the way that they work extremely well with the characters. It's not only that I feel the environments work really well with the rest of the animation, but I feel that they are pieces of art work on their own that they tell their own individual story alongside the story of the characters.

Overall the environments used within The Boxtrolls are a really good example of effective environmental storytelling and there's a lot of things that I can take from this animation that will help me to crate better environments within my own animations.