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

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Art of Across the Spider-Verse continued… Miguel’s new suit being worked on in a corner of his lab. Suit design was by Kristafer Anka but I stole it and destroyed it lol"

Definitely. It’s a film that’s complex with its visual language, and the environment itself is extremely rich in terms of its detailing. It was a challenge to keep the character in the forefront, and to keep the action moving. Robh Ruppel, early on in production, described it as ‘a master class in graphic design.’ We talked about this all the time. In terms of the frame, there needs to be a very clean hierarchy of information. That’s where a lot of the graphic simplification comes in.

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A complex battle that takes place in the Guggenheim Museum. “It’s in Gwen’s World, but the Guggenheim is actually filled with photorealistic artwork created by Jeff Koons,” Cornute-Sutton states. “It was one of the only times in the movie where we actually did go into Substance 3D Painter. We had photorealism, an architecturally significant building that we had to recreate, but in Gwen’s World style, and there is a helicopter bursting through the skylight in the ceiling. Vulture is in this sequence, and he’s from the Leonardo Da Vinci Verse, so he’s in a completely different sepia tone style. Then Spider-Man 2099 comes in with this digital suit that comes on in bits and bytes; his righthand gal Lyla pops in and she’s a hologram. Jessica Drew hops in on her motorcycle. And there’s Gwen and her father. They’re all in their styles.” Spider-Man 2099, voiced by Oscar Isaac , posed a significant threat to Miles Morales in Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, as we learn he is willing to do whatever it takes to stop Miles from interfering with, or even stopping, a " canon event" from happening altogether. Were there any kill-your-darlings moments, certain directions or design choices along the way that you ultimately moved on from, but you still think fondly on? In the upgrade of Miles from a young teen to an older teen, his growing up a little was one of those where when the new shapes came into play, we handled it wrong; he no longer looked like himself,” Hawkins reveals. “Miles has a particular cheekbone structure and eye-corner shaping; his silhouette from the side and the way his mouth in the first movie had a bit of an overbite, and as they aged him up a little bit, you want to give someone a more pronounced jawline. That stuff did affect the way Miles looked, and he became a little unfamiliar. We had to make adjustments to how the rig would behave and how we handled the posing to make him look like a grownup version of that same Miles everybody loves.”

Much like The Matrix, which caused a ripple through the film industry because of innovative storytelling, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse had the same impact, with its creative influence going beyond its Oscar win for Best Animated Feature to inspire several imitations. Upping the ante is the first of two proposed sequels, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, by showcasing not only the world inhabited by a slightly older Miles Morales but those serving as the homes of Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man 2099 and Spider-Man: India. And let’s not forget that the cast of Spider-People has been multiplied by 10, and Miles finds himself clashing with them on how to handle the portal-empowered villain known as the Spot. Gadgets & Smart Home Whether it’s a drone, a smart vacuum or noise cancelling headphones you are looking to buy, our reviewers have tried and tested it before you have to. RELATED: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's Final Scene Recreated by Fan With LEGO Animation The Trilogy Will Conclude With Beyond the Spider-Verse Car Our revheads bring you all you need to know on the coolest electric vehicles and sports cars available on the market.Miles gets schooled in the art of web-swinging by an older Peter Parker (voiced by Jake Johnson), his reluctant mentor, in this autumnal, forest-set sequence. The amazing Spider-Ham The shots that we produced with an incredible technical team were some of the most amazing thing Ive seen, and Im extremely proud of them and the team involved. With those shots we open a door to a pipeline and possibilities and help to estimate the overall film. Again Sony 5 Starts gave me full most luxurious team of super high profile technicians, artist, software , hardware, animators, 3D artists and modelers. People with lots of patience that didn't understand very much what I had in my brain at first. But together and thousends of paintings , layers , renders and hell amount of art we all develop the most spectacular 3 or 4 shots I ever seen. ( at least at the time ) I hope Sony will publish them some day. ( And hope they dont give me an "Advisor" Credit for that…! )

Yesterday's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer has generated a lot of excitement among fans. However, perhaps the biggest talking point has been our first look at the dozens of Spidey Variants who will be part of Miles Morales' apparent Multiversal war with Spider-Man 2099. To handle the expanding multimedia aesthetic of the franchise, Sony Pictures Imageworks created a new department called Look of Picture. “On this one, there are so many technical hurdles and different looks that I’ve spent 80% of my time developing tools,” states Bret St. Clair, Senior Look Development and Lighting TD at Sony Pictures Imageworks. “We saw a lot of art that depicted paint being thrown around in-frame in ways where strokes aren’t specifically connected to a character or to anything. They’re floating in space. The problem for us is we try to approach everything rendering in a traditional way. Then we try to have all of our tools handle the rest in compositing. When it comes to positioning brushes in 3D, we needed to be able to reconstruct where those positions are, even when they don’t lie specifically on the surface that you’re applying the brush to, and the rendering tools, especially in 2D, don’t give you that information for free.” As we move into Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse, Miguel O'Hara realizes he, along with the entire world, will have everything to lose if the canon is broken, and will fight to his last breath to save it from Miles' negligence. Sometimes having people who don’t have that rigidity of traditional experience can be freeing, as long as you have some guidance. A lot of the textures that you have in there feel very hand-hewn, but it looks like you’re bringing in the printed comic book roots in other visual ways.

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We didn’t fall into anything too familiar, because it was unfamiliar territory for a lot of us. But there was so much support from the studio in our vision, that it was okay for us to be like, “Okay, we know what we want, how do we do it?” And Danny Dimian, the VFX supervisor of Imageworks would respond, “We’ll show you how to get it, and if we don’t know we’ll figure it out.” It was a studio-wide effort of everybody believing in the vision and the message. So it was okay that we didn’t exactly know how to do things, or even that we had to invent new ways to do things. Other artists , other directors and art directors and production designers join the team. A difficult task for all of them. Brave people with new energy ready to continue what I left. It would have been easy just to have done everybody in that look [of the rest of the film], but it didn’t seem like we were doing justice to these unique, individual characters. Our character designers, Shiyoon Kim and Jesus Alonso Iglesias, did an amazing job creating the individual, distinct personalities, and then it was the great work of character painters Wendell Dalit and Yashar Kassai that put these characters into different dimensions by pushing the render styling. 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

After almost 2 years ( or year and 1/2 ) I guess Sony and me didnt get along that well and I was fired . Where the decision came from or where it was initiated is still a mystery. This was very much a painful surprise for me and my team and many others. We had mostly technical and style discrepancies but I didn't know they were so major. The way I wanted to do things and the way Sony wanted to do things, at least at the time, were different. Oh, and that big “visual development” on each piece of art should make it clear but these are not final images. But the fact that these three characters are not in the new trailer, a trailer absolutely filled with Spider-People, speaks to just how many are going to be in the new movie. I know so well that this film hasn´t been easy . Was not easy when I was there, was not easy when I left. More than 100 minutes of animation are a lot of minutes. Just after the movie’s release, people from the visual development and art department have begun sharing their work for the sequel on various social media platforms.Finally, we have Mayday Parker, the daughter of Peter B. Parker and Mary Jane Watson. She grows up to become Spider-Girl in the comic books, but already appears to be showing some early spider-powers based on her costume! These costumes are all pretty amazing in very different ways, though we'd say the design which was ultimately chosen is by far the best one. The 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. Did you notice in the trailer that older Peter Parker, voiced by Jake Johnson, is wearing a baby carrier? Well, it seems as if he and Mary Jane had a baby and this concept art refers to her as “Mayday.” That’s significant because in the comics, Mayday aka May Parker, grows up to be a Spider-Woman. Maybe that happens in the next film. Image: Sony Pictures