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Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities

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內容簡介 The definitive visual guide to the cityscapes and buildings of the most celebrated and influential anime movies. Key Sales Information • Features the most popular and critically acclaimed movies of the genre, including Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Metropolis. • Material drawn from unprecedented access to the vast archives of drafts, drawings and paintings behind every anime masterpiece. Iconic scenes are shown in their development stages, with guiding captions to explain how each composition evolved creatively within the studio. • Offers insights into the working methods and influences of legendary directors such as Hideaki Anno, Koji Morimoto and Mamoru Oshii. Description Anime Architecture presents the most breathtaking environments created by the most important and revered directors and illustrators of Japanese animated films. From futuristic cities of steel to romantic rural locales, the creators of anime have conjured memorable and painstakingly detailed worlds, the influences of which have been felt across cinema, literature, comic books and videogames for decades. 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.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Stefan RiekelesStefan Riekeles is a curator based in Berlin. He has been the artistic director of the Japan Media Arts Festival Dortmund, the program director of the International Symposium on Electronic Art, and curated several exhibitions, including ""Proto Anime Cut: Spaces and visions in Japanese animation.""

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