The "Spider-Verse" animators alternated between on twos and on ones depending on the nature of the scene. You can see examples of animating on twos in some of the original Disney films. Like here, when Prowler is chasing Miles through the alley. "Spider-Verse" broke the mold and animated much of the movie on twos as well, meaning they kept some of the images on screen for two frames, which makes the animation feel, as the producers describe it, "crunchy." Each character's pose lasts longer and is much more pronounced. Animated films are typically 24 frames per second, and creating a different image for each frame is known as animating on ones. One of the most noticeable differences involves frame rate. To accomplish this, they used a number of different techniques that make "Spider-Verse" a groundbreaking film. For "Spider-Verse," instead of making the animation photo-realistic, the creators wanted the movie to stand out on its own as something new for viewers just as they were being introduced to a new Spider-Man in Miles Morales, while at the same time sticking as much as they could to traditional print comic book style.Īs Head of Character Animation Josh Beveridge put it, "Don't emulate reality, and don't make it a cartoon." Narrator: And the total shot count on "Spider-Verse" is two to three times higher than other animated films.Įach year, animated films seem to look more and more like real life. It actually took them one year to get just 10 seconds they were happy with. It usually takes a week for four seconds. It took one week to animate just one second of footage. To put that in perspective, the original "Toy Story" had just 27 animators. More than twice the typical animated film. The film had 177 animators on staff at one point. Let's start with a few jaw-dropping numbers about the production. It's that dedication to the animation, a style we have never really seen before, that puts "Spider-Verse" in a category all its own. It packs multiple characters from different universes into a seamless story, and it features an innovative, eye-grabbing animation style. It's no ordinary Spider-Man movie either. Narrator: "Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse" is no ordinary animated movie. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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