Everything about Core Animation

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Core AnimationA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Core animationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Peek-a-boo, I See You: Watching Japanese Hard-core AnimationCited 17 times
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Peek-a-boo, I See You: Watching Japanese Hard-core Animation

  Mariana Ortega-Brena · 2008 · Sexuality & Culture · 17 citations

• Animation in the Core of Dystopia: Ari Folman’s The Congress

  María Lorenzo Hernández · 2019 · Animation · 2 citations

• A Study on the Core Curriculum of Animation Dept. at UTS

  Joo Hoon Lee · 2018 · The Korean Journal of animation · 0 citations

• Representatives and directives as core communicative acts: Evidence from illocutionary patterns in Masameer County animation

  Muhammad Syahid Ridha, Mauidlotun Nisa', Darsita Suparno · 2025 · Al-Lisan · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Core animationMarcus Zarra · 2010
• Peeking UndergroundKaren Latchana Kenney · 2016

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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