Avery Angle 

My thesis explores the ever-expanding aesthetic of the Sublime, and how it can be created in animation. An emotional paradox of terror, admiration, and awe, the sublime drives the individual into a state of smallness with its overwhelming power. From examining the source of this aesthetic and its impact on the individual, to the design elements that encourage a sublime experience, followed by delving into the tumultuous elements of the sublime’s emotional core. I look to likes of Immanuel Kant, Edmund Burke, and Emily Brady, and their different takes on how the sublime aesthetic can form. Furthering that animation, though often overlooked for this aesthetic, provides the necessary requirements to promote a sublime experience, and it is through this that we connect with the film’s narrative. It builds an emotional connection in ways that traditional painting cannot, and ultimately provides a more immersive experience with the sublime. Inspiring artists, poets, and philosophers to take to their work to try and explain or reinterpret the unfathomable.