Research Guides: Arts and Media Research Guide: Animation

Animation resources

The following list of sources will help familiarize you with animation. You may also wish to try searching our online catalog with keywords such as animation, anime, computer animation, animated films, or clay animation.

Animated Movie Guide
This is an electronic book. You will need your NetID and password to connect to it. If you are a community borrower, you may read the item in the Mansfield Library on the public access computers.
Animator's Reference Book / Les Pardew and Ross Wolfley
This is an electronic book. You will need your NetID and password to connect to it. If you are a community borrower, you may read the item in the Mansfield Library on the public access computers.
Anime Encyclopedia
Call Number: 791.4334 C6266a 2006
Cinema Anime
This is an electronic book. You will need your NetID and password to connect to it. If you are a community borrower, you may read the item in the Mansfield Library on the public access computers.
Complete Digital Animation Course / Andy Wyatt
Call number: 006.696 W975c
Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons
Call Number: 791.4375 L563e 1991
Origins of American Animation (American Memory Project at the Library of Congress)
This is a good source of actual film footage of American animation from the time period 1900 through 1921. You can download video files of each title from this page since they are in the public domain.
Stop Motion Filming and Performance : A Guide to Cameras, Lighting, and Dramatic Techniques / Tom Brierton
Call Number: 778.5347 B8539S