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shesnake · 10 months

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Spider-Verse Artists Say Working on the Sequel Was ‘Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts’

Why don’t more animated movies look this good? According to people who worked on the sequel, Across the Spider-Verse, it’s because the working conditions required to produce such artistry are not sustainable.

Multiple Across the Spider-Verse crew members — ranging from artists to production executives who have worked anywhere from five to a dozen years in the animation business — describe the process of making the the $150 million Sony project as uniquely arduous, involving a relentless kind of revisionism that compelled approximately 100 artists to flee the movie before its completion.

While frequent major overhauls are standard operating procedure in animation (Pixar films can take between four and seven years to plot, animate, and render), those changes typically occur early on during development and storyboarding stages. But these Spider-Verse 2 crew members say they were asked to make alterations to already-approved animated sequences that created a backlog of work across multiple late-stage departments. Across the Spider-Verse was meant to debut in theaters in April of 2022, before it was postponed to October of that year and then June 2023 owing to what Entertainment Weekly reported as “pandemic-related delays.” However, the four crew members say animators who were hired in the spring of 2021 sat idle for anywhere from three to six months that year while Phil Lord tinkered with the movie in the layout stage, when the first 3-D representation of storyboards are created.

As a result, these individuals say, they were pushed to work more than 11 hours a day, seven days a week, for more than a year to make up for time lost and were forced back to the drawing board as many as five times to revise work during the final rendering stage.

"For animated movies, the majority of the trial-and-error process happens during writing and storyboarding. Not with fully completed animation. Phil’s mentality was, This change makes for a better movie, so why aren’t we doing it? It’s obviously been very expensive having to redo the same shot several times over and have every department touch it so many times. The changes in the writing would go through storyboarding. Then it gets to layout, then animation, then final layout, which is adjusting cameras and placements of things in the environment. Then there’s cloth and hair effects, which have to repeatedly be redone anytime there’s an animation change. The effects department also passes over the characters with ink lines and does all the crazy stuff like explosions, smoke, and water. And they work closely with lighting and compositing on all the color and visual treatments in this movie. Every pass is plugged into editing. Smaller changes tend to start with animation, and big story changes can involve more departments like visual development, modeling, rigging, and texture painting. These are a lot of artists affected by one change. Imagine an endless stream of them."

"Over 100 people left the project because they couldn’t take it anymore. But a lot stayed on just so they could make sure their work survived until the end — because if it gets changed, it’s no longer yours. I know people who were on the project for over a year who left, and now they have little to show for it because everything was changed. They went through the hell of the production and then got none of their work coming out the other side."

#across the spider verse #spider man: across the spider verse #spiderverse #spiderman #marvel #atsv #phil lord #film #animation #vfx #post production #read the whole thing pls!

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aadrawings · 11 months

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I’ve seen no one post the new Clone High intro so here it is

#clone high #abandoned pools #phil lord #christopher miller #hbo max #i refuse to call it max because it's a stupid name

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the-irreverend · 11 months

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Not gonna lie, I totally think they would be great for each other!

P.S. Also, I effing love their dynamic.

#clone high #clone high jfk #clone high confucius #confucius #jfk #john f kennedy #clone jfk #clone high revival #clone high reboot #clone high 2023 #clone high spoilers #phil lord #christopher miller #animation #hbo max

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in-love-with-movies · 9 months

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21 Jump Street (2012)

#21 Jump Street #filmedit #Channing Tatum #Jonah Hill #Johnny Depp #Dave Franco #Brie Larson #Phil Lord #Chris Miller #my gifs #movie gifs

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haveyouseenthis2023film · 5 months

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Summary: Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn's full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.

Release Date: June 2, 2023

Director: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson

Rating: PG

Everyone and their 5th cousin has likely seen this movie, or so it seems, but if you’ve managed to avoid it, you should definitely go watch it! It lives up to the hype and is an amazing sequel, amazing animated film, amazing superhero film, amazing Spider-Man film, and amazing film in general!

reblog for larger sample size :)

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olympain · 1 year

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I'll never grow up to be like you. It's easy to harden your heart. But to open it, that's the toughest thing you can do. I'm gonna grow up. But I won't stop caring about the people in my life. They may see the world differently, but that's not bad. I think it's inspiring. It can be whatever you want it to be. Because everything's not awesome. But we can make it a little more awesome if we remember we're not alone in this world. We're in it together.

Happy 4 years anniversary The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part!

#animationedit #filmedit #legoedit #the lego movie 2 #tlm2 #lego #phil lord #christopher miller #emmet brickowski #rex dangervest #wyldstyle #original #*gifs #most misunderstood movie #so much depth and so much heart #and yet the reviews are killing me

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gael-garcia · 3 months

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had no idea Phil Lord was the biggest gusano

LMAO

checks out

LOL

OH they're getting him and his grandpa

#hdjdhddk #all these tweets lmaoooooooo #whew!!! the news about overworking the spiderverse animators well . checks out #phil lord #criterion collection #soy cuba #i am cuba #memories of underdevelopment

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thiscoulddecay · 3 months

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Ryan with Project Hail Mary directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller last night !

#LETS GO !!!!!!#project hail mary #ryan gosling #phil lord #chris Miller

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paintsplash1712 · 9 months

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Edit: Please read my reblog and comments. I misunderstood some of the changes and accidentally spread misinformation. Thanks

Lord and Miller are so stupid by deleting some of the most important lines without even realising it from Across the Spider-verse Digital release.

They removed "Nah, Imma do my own thing!" One of the most important lines in the whole movie!

They removed Gwen's panicked "No, No, No!" When she think Miles dies. That was put there for a reason, she got flashbacks to Peter death!

These guys can't stop. They're ruining the movie

Get this movie away from their grubby hands!

#Seriously stooooooppp!#They better keep them in for the dvd release or I swear to god!#Please if you want the full Spiderverse experience don't buy the digital release #not yet #they may address these issues like they did for the cinena release #I hope so #spiderman across the spiderverse #across the spiderverse #atsv digital release #atsv #miles molares #gwen stacy #phil lord #chris miller

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hamiltonforpowerpoint · 11 months

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This is mostly for me but if anyone is also struggling with spiderpunk age debate here’s some dms from Phil Lord (ig I have to say allegedly) (June 7)

#spiderman india #pavitr prabhakar #spider punk #hobie brown #across the spiderverse #spiderman across the spiderverse #into the spider verse #phil lord #Idc wether you see him as a love interest or a big bro #I’m worried about the folks calling it a pro ship #a proship?!?!#like it’s very…worrying

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scenesandscreens · 7 months

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson, Art Direction by Dean Gordon

"Everyone keeps telling me how my story is supposed to go. Nah. I'm-a do my own thing."

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hasansglasses · 1 year

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oh shit-

#this makes me glad i was too much of an anxious people pleasing nutcase to watch the episode #but if you havent watched the clone high episode dont watch it #clone high #phil lord #clone high leaks

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aadrawings · 9 months

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Warmup drawing of everybody nobody's favorite animated redditor

#my art #topher bus #clone high #phil lord #christopher miller

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the-irreverend · 11 months

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It's funny how both Clone High and Velma are both "self-aware" adult animation shows on HBO Max that have an unlikable main character, and yet the former manages to be infinitely smarter and funnier than the latter.

You wanna know why? Because even though Abe is insufferable, the creators of Clone High KNOW that Abe is insufferable, meaning that they don't make any attempt to downplay, excuse, and/or justify said insufferability...

...much unlike the creators of Velma.