《日本动漫建筑》展示了日本动画电影界最要，最受尊敬的导演和插画师们创造的最令人叹为观止的环境。从未来主义的钢铁城市到浪漫主义的乡村风情，日本动画片的创作者们变魔术般地创造出了那些令人难忘的世界，在细节处理上可谓费尽了心思。几十年来，电影、文学、漫画书和电子游戏等领域都受到了他们的作品的影响。本书通过原始的背景绘画、情节串连图板、草图、灵感来源和电影片段对这些场景——包括《阿基拉》、《攻壳机动队》、《机动警察》、《新世纪福音战士》和《恶童》当中的材料——进行了一次无与伦比的探讨。

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.