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Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities
| Title | Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities |
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| Date | 2024-11-25 01:14:05 |
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Desciption
An unrivaled visual guide to the cityscapes and buildings of the most celebrated and influential anime movies.Anime has been influencing cinema, literature, comic books, and video games around the world for decades. Part of what makes anime so popular are the memorable and breathtakingly detailed worlds designed by the creators, from futuristic cities of steel to romantic rural locales. Anime Architecture presents the fantastic environments created by the most important and revered directors and illustrators of Japanese animated films, such as Hideaki Anno, Koji Morimoto, and Mamoru Oshii.Unprecedented access to vast studio archives of original background paintings, storyboards, drafts, and film excerpts offers readers a privileged view into the earliest stages of conception, development, and finished versions of iconic scenes from critically acclaimed movies such as Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metropolis, and more. Revealing the secret creative processes of these major anime studios, Anime Architecture is perfect for anyone touched by the beauty and imagination of classic anime, offering inspiration for artists, illustrators, architects, designers, video game makers, and dreamers. 400 color illustrations Read more
Review
IMPORTANT: I was able to buy this book here on January 31st, 2021 even though it has not been available since early December. I had signed up to receive a notification when the product is available but I never received one. I checked the product page periodically and on 01-31-21 I saw that copies had been made available. Without hesitation I purchased a copy and at that time there were 15 copies still available. Less than 10 minutes later, all of the available copies were sold. The moral of the story is, keep checking the product page.-I'm very happy that recently several books, in English, have been published highlighting what is often the unsung hero of animation, background artwork. The author puts his focus on the near future, often dystopian, metropolis backgrounds, which I personally find to be more beautiful than those produced by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli (I know, it's sacrilegious to say however, I do still love Miyazaki's works).This book is a must have for any fan of Anime and animation in general. Beautifully put together and beautifully researched. I'm very, very happy to have this in my collection.
