This week in Why It Works, I capitalized on Halloween’s approach to write a general article about how tricky it is to make animation scary, and what tools of the medium you can use to alleviate that inherent obstacle. It’s difficult to make an audience scared of an animated monster, but it’s certainly possible to make the audience feel trapped, and from there they’ll frequently do the work themselves. Let’s get to it!

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