A Sky Longing for Memories: The Art of Makoto Shinkai (Color)

Sky Longing for Memories: The Art of Makoto Shinkai is a full-color art book packed with art from the many movies of Makoto Shinkai, directed for Studio CoMix Wave. The book is a 175 page landscape format softcover, the majority of which are images. Inside you will find hundreds of backgrounds from from his award-winning works 5 Centimetres per Second, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, Voices of a Distant Star, and a TV advertisement for the Mainichi Newspaper.

In addition to the backgrounds, there is a section about the software and technique behind CoMix Wave’s animation, which discuss the key features of the software the studio has developed to use at various stages of production. The English edition also comes with a lengthy interview with Mr. Shinkai and other key members of his studio.