Research project

For my research project I am going to look into animation genre and why the most successful commercial full feature films are mainly in the kids/family genre.

I want to see what makes a successful animated film and then look into successful romantic comedies and horror movies and what makes them successful commercially.

Looking at techniques in production and development, I want to see if an animated romantic film or horror film can be successful and whether it will work in the cinema like films such as shrek or toy story.

I would like to see a development in animated genre's and an expansion into more genres such as romantic comedy or horror, more adult themed animated films, because I believe people still think of animations as kids movies, I want this to change.