Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie

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Oh, constantly. But there was an understanding throughout the team, and ultimately the production at large, that it’s not simply about coming up with the greatest idea. It’s about the best idea for the project. A lot of times you’re doing work to figure out what isn’t going to go in the film. We have artwork for things that would have been really cool, but would have left the audience asking way too many questions, and taking us down a rabbit hole that is not necessary to tell the story of Miles and the other Spiders. As a result, you never get bummed, or turned off when a great idea that you all really believed in just doesn’t fit, because in the end it’s all about the whole.

And the film preserves the most important part: To create something different from what we generally see in mainstream animation. As soon as I got hired I worked super hard 7 days a week and hell of hours per day from day one. Painting, Drawing, Designing and Story Boarding. SONY responded amazingly with the first images and animatics.They were real happy. I felt powerful, super confident partially because I was doing good hard work but also partially because Sony made me feel that way. Let’s start with one we already knew about: Hobie Brown, aka Spider-Punk. He’ll be voiced by none other than Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya, and while the character was first revealed in some merchandising for the film, this is our best look at him yet. Image: Sony PicturesThe reason why Sony, directors or producers do not mention my work that much out there, or if my mysterious "Visual Consultant" credit is not bad, or not good , fair , or unfair is more a problem of myself getting poor legal advice. I dont care as long as I can write a text about it and at least have few people reading it. Even though I think I have a pretty sweet mention in the book. May be no, Im not sure. Then there’s Pavitr Prabhakar, aka Spider-Man India. The very first teaser for Across the Spider-Verse had a brief glimpse of the character’s world but now we know for sure he’s going to be in there. No word on who will provide the voice, but here’s his awesome, unique look. Image: Sony Pictures Here, the older Spider-Man discovers and attempts to power down the Kingpin’s particle accelerator, before it tears open a portal to the various universes. Welcome to the multiverse We’re blessed to live in a time where there there’s an acceptance towards variety in design. That’s all we can ask from the world of designers, to keep trying to do something different. Just like Miles, you do have to do it your own way. years ago ( or a bit more? ) I was hired by Sony as the Production Designer / Art Director ( I always much prefer the sound of Art Direction than Production Design, despite the status or hierarchy ) and I was also contracted to direct a little clip that will ended up been called: "the animation test".

I’m grateful that I had the chance to contribute to this project and meet some seriously talented, inspirational people. Congrats to the entire team for all the hard work. Felicia Chen Something that either accidentally or on purpose I always want to do in my projects is to brake the repetitive and very succesful “look” and pipeline that all the big Giants Corps in animation had been smashing in our faces for the last decade, up to a point that is dificult to diferenciate who did what. Phil and Chris are very democratic about their filmmaking. Anybody’s idea could be the best idea. Everybody’s encouraged to speak up in the room. It was never a matter of ‘my idea versus your idea’. It’s this pool of ideas we’re drawing from, thinking, how can we continually push it, and come up with something even better?

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