A general debt. Pete Docter names Miyazaki as a key influence and has praised how Spirited Away's No-Face embodies a complex, flawed emotion as a character; Inside Out builds a whole cast that way.
AnimationSeries· 2015· Drama
Inside Out
by Pete Docter
Inside Out: it draws on 2 recorded sources.
What influenced Inside Out
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
Real-world influences
Events, places, movements and ideas outside fiction that this work is recorded as drawing on.
Science & Technology
Real world
Real-world influenceHIGH
- Paul Ekman's basic emotions
Riley's emotions are characters, and the film consulted the psychologist Paul Ekman, whose research on basic emotions shaped them.