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Monsters Inc

            
             To help me develop likable and believable characters I have chosen to investigate what makes my favourite character, Mike from Pixar's Monsters Inc, so successful. I hope that by looking into this character I will be able to use this knowledge to make more interesting and believable characters in my future projects.
             In order to dissect his character I will first look at his appearance as this is what people notice first and determines how his personality is portrayed. I will then look at the role he plays in the story because the way he reacts to the situations he and Sully encounter during the film help flesh out his character. I will investigate his relationship with the main characters in the film as I suspect it is through is his interaction with the other characters that the audience empathizes with him. I"ll also look at the key scenes that I feel develop Mikes character and make him more memorable. Finally I will look at three other animated films to try and pick out similarities between the characters. .
             Mike is a very simple character, essentially just a head on legs. He has one eye which is larger than usual and dominates his face and he has large hands which facilitate expressive gestures. His character design, with all of his limbs pointing to his face, leads the viewers attention straight to his eye. Mike uses facial expressions and body language more in keeping with cel animation. He only has one eyebrow which would have been a problem for the animators so they made it double jointed, it acts as two eyebrows with a bend in the middle allowing him to use the full range of facial expressions normally requiring two eyes. .
             Mikes body language and facial expressions make it very easy to tell what mood he's in at a glance and this is true throughout the film. Because of this the audience is never alienated from him and Mike acts as the audiences link with the world of Monsters Inc.


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