Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities
£26.30£33.30 (-21%)
This volume offers a peerless survey of these cinematic arenas – including materials from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Tekkonkinkreet – through original background paintings, storyboards, drafts, sources of inspiration and film excerpts.
A celebration and resource produced in direct collaboration with the original Japanese production studios, Anime Architecture offers privileged views into the earliest conception stages of iconic scenes, through to their development into finished films. Anyone who has been touched by the beauty and imagination of classic anime will find page after page of revelation and inspiration. Containing the often secretive creative processes of the major anime studios, this enthusiast’s treasure trove will have its significance for future generations of artists, illustrators, architects, designers, videogame makers and dreamers.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1st edition (22 Oct. 2020) |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 256 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0500294526 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0500294529 |
| Dimensions | 22.35 x 3.05 x 28.96 cm |
by Aleksandar Gachev
Fascinating book and contents are exactly what was promised. Overall great quality and arrived in perfect condition.
The presentation is by famous anime, where each chosen anime gets several pages in which the style is represented. There is therefore a rather small selection of anime.
by M W
The bottom corner of the hard cover was damaged and dented. Totally disaster!
by M W
Fantastic book
by Jordan O’Neill
The title of this book is misleading, this is honestly just a book about Anime backgrounds. I was expecting more breakdowns and pre-production artwork of the architecture and maybe more background behind the architecture choices. What you get is actually a collection of anime background paintings, with little emphasis on architecture at all.
The background art itself is beautiful, but the title was misleading and left me a little disappointed.
by kieran hall
This book would make a fantastic gift for any artist, fan of anime, architecture or animation. Only comment I would make is that this would definitely have benefitted from being a series of volumes instead of confined to a single book.
by Bart
The amount of pictures is sheer amazing. It’s not the usual “we show you 5 shots of storyboards and charge you £50 for it”, it really requires time to go through the book. The issue is, that the pictures shown are seldom in full page format which, given their sheer complexity, loses a lot of detail. The book should have been printed in A3 at least for a better impact. Still a beautiful publication.
by CustomerfromLondon
Beautiful book
by Hassan N.
This needs to be in all artists collection, Really inspiring and detailed.