Trends in animation

After research i have disovered that most animations today are usually based on geometric shapes depending on the mood within the animation itself. For instance if the animation was to be based as a scary topic the character which is meant to be scary will be shown as triangles and have pointy elements. A christmas carol is a perfect example of this.
As you ca see The features on his face look mean. His nose is pointed along with his chin. The audience is threatened by this as pointed objects are usually a threat to us, (knives/dangerous objects_

Another example in current animation is happy characters being rounded which gives the audience an idea of feeling happy because it reminds us of friendly objects and childhood maybe- (bouncy balls/friendly objects) A perfect example of this is Noddy. From this picture you can see that everything in noddies features and clothing is rounded making the child watching feel comfortable and safe.