Abstract

My thesis, The World is Beautiful is a short, digitally animated film that follows the journey of a jaded employee working at a dystopian fishery. The intention of this piece was to tell a well-paced, coherent story that also served as an allegory to spark verbal discourse in an audience. As a surface level story, the film portrays a working protagonist who has been forced to remain seated at her desk by a mechanical chair. She, presumably, has been monotonously pressing icons on a screen for her entire life until something catches her eye and prompts her to break free from her desk and seek escape. Allegorically, the film was made to promote conversation about the role of the human creative spirit existing in a capitalist environment. The specifics of my plot and design choices would undergo many changes throughout the filmmaking process as my film’s metaphorical significance continued to be honed. Treating the film as an allegory would prove to serve as the engine and stopper for much of my creative process, since the challenge of assigning meaning to each small decision (while still trying to tell a straight forward story) meant a lot of additional responsibility to myself as an artist. In the end, the combination of many drafted treatments and storyboards, deep conversations with committee members and peers, and a cementing of confidence in myself as a creator served to make a piece that I believe ultimately accomplished my goal. Clarivate logo

Publication Date

11-2025

Document Type

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Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Film and Animation (MFA)

Department, Program, or Center

Film and Animation, School of

College

College of Art and Design

Advisor

Brian Larson

Advisor/Committee Member

Jonathan Seligson

Advisor/Committee Member

Vanessa Sweet

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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