Summary
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Versewas able to build on the success of the first and delivered some amazing animation along with it. An animation test shows what Mile Morales would have looked like in another spider-person’s animation style.
Thanks to theSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verseart book and some behind-the-scenes test footage from Sony, fans have been able to get a good look at the process behind the film’s beautiful animation. For example, the art book gave fans moredetails about Miles Morales from Earth 42. These details about howSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Versewas made have given fans much more to appreciate when watching the film.
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Recently at a panel for the Sony Creator Conference, the Visual Effects Supervisors for Sony Imageworks talked about how they created the animation forSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verseand the visuals forGuardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. A part of this panel focused on how they animated thefan-favorite character Spider-Punk. When testing the animation, they used a Miles Morales character model, which gave the character a new look.
Spider-Punk stood out from the rest of the spider-people due to his unique animation style, drastic clash of ideals against Miguel, andDaniel Kaluuya’s extraordinary performanceas the anarchist web head. So when fans saw the test footage of Miles in Spider-Punk’s unique animation, they loved it and wanted to see more. The full video of the panel also shows a test of how Gwen would interact with Spider-Punk in his universe, although this clip is not fully rendered.
This animation test is interesting for multiple reasons. It’s cool to see Miles in Spider-Punk’s animation, but it is also nice to see how they gave Miles some punk clothes in the test, giving him a whole new style. The animation test also changes Punk/Miles' clothes from a shirt to a jacket, which they decided not to do inSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Although the colors of Spider-Punk’s clothes change, they don’t swap out his jacket like in this test.
This test also shows what Spider-Punk’s universe looks like since that was not shown inAcross the Spider-Verse. It’s interesting to see how his whole universe is cut-up pieces of magazines that move and seemingly change randomly. Would fans want to see aSpider-Man spin-off series in Spider-Punk’s world, or would the animation be too much for the audience and the artists?
