MEDIA ARTS & ANIMATION

Animation at The Art Institute of Philadelphia includes both Traditional and Computer Animation. The Library is continually acquiring materials that will support this curriculum. You are encouraged to suggest new titles that will be useful to students in this department. Send any suggestions to Ruth Schachter (schachtr@aii.edu).

Library policies can be found on the About Us page. Please become familiar with students' borrowing privileges and responsibilities, loan periods, and fines for overdue materials.

To search for books and videos/dvds, use Athena, our online catalog. Athena can be accessed from the library website (in school access only).

       - Subjects
       - Authors
       - Titles
       - Keyword

A few terms that may be useful in a search for animation-related materials are:

animated films
animation (cinematography)
anime
clay animation films
comic strip characters
computer animation
computer graphics
Disney, Pixar, Warner Bros.
modeling
three-dimensional display systems
web animation

Copy the entire call number for any titles that are of interest. To get the complete call number, click on the title to view the entire record. If there is more than one copy, click on "show copies" to see what is in the Library, where it is located, what is checked out, and when it is due back. If you are having a problem finding books on the shelf, or information on your topic, ask for help. We understand that you may not be familiar with this library.

To see the newest titles, go to the What's New page.

Browsing

If you want to browse through the collection (and don't forget the Reference area!), try these call numbers for animation topics:

NC 1764-NC 1766 (Comic books, strips, how-to-draw motion picture cartoons)
PN 1992-PN 1999 (Television, motion pictures, scripts)
QA 76 (Multimedia, computer games, computers, user interfaces)
T 385 (Computer graphics, Illustrator, Photoshop)
TR 897.5 (Computer animation, 3D Studio Max, Flash)

Videos / DVDs

The Library has a growing collection of VHS and DVD titles. Most may be checked out for three days. Limit 2. To see the newest non-book titles, click here. A complete list of titles is held at the Circulation Desk in a binder. All titles are also in the Athena database, our online catalog.

Alice in Cartoonland
Animation Show, The
Animation Theater Program (Siggraph review)
Animusic
Creature Comforts (claymation)
Disney Rarities
Great Animators, The
Incredibles, The
Looney Tunes Golden Collection
Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell
Mondo Plympton
Ninja Scroll
Spirited Away
Stash (montly DVD magazine)

Magazines / Journals

The Library has a large collection of print subscriptions. New issues are on display in the library. Older issues are bound, and are shelved behind the Reference area. Some interesting titles are:

Animation Magazine
Animation Journal
Computer Gaming World
Computer Graphics World
DV: Digital Video Magazine
Game Developer
Wired

Electronic Resources

View Animation Web Links