Art Game --Heart of Darkness

"The game places players in the role of a child named Andy as he attempts to rescue his dog that has been kidnapped by creatures known as The Dark Souls.^[1] The game has about half an hour of storytelling cinematic sequences, thousands of 2D animated frames, and uses pre-rendered background scenery.^[1] The game is known for its infamous death scenes."---from Wiki 

I think the Game has more Disney style, especially when I see the Dog and the shadow monsters and all the backgrounds.

i think the concept is about the " Terror ". And in this game, the main color tends to use the darkness and evil style. And how to show the terror? A boy fear about the darkness will be a nice setting. Because children always fear about the dark and don't like to turn of the night.

So it create a scene that the boy has to face the darkness and it has a strong feeling of nightmare style. 

Talk about the Cartoon, the first artist comes to mind is Walt Disney. Nobody build a children's dream land like him. We all familiar with his cartoon animation. 

Hayao Miyazaki is also one of my favorite artists who create lots of excellent animation.

About Hayao Miyazaki, I think most of his works were reflecting the Japan in his childhood. The whole country was in the mood of reconstruction after the war. He must lived at the countryside and all his work shows lots of nature scene.

Nearly all his animation are about the concept of "Grow up". This concept matched the background in that period. 

Teenagers learn something in the ideal world and get back to the real world, after going through something, they grow up rapidly.