Into the Spider Verse is finally doing what mainstream CGI animation should have been doing for years: creating visuals only possible BECAUSE of the chosen medium.
CGI is a modern crutch. It’s cheaper than 2D by a landslide, and easier to churn out with the support of a studio.
But the actualization of a medium clicks when the medium is being used in ways that only it can. Focusing on rendering every hair, on recreating beautiful photo-realistic landscapes, that’s fine. It’s impressive. But the approach reaches a point where we’re left wondering:
“Why didn’t you just make a live action movie?”
Spider Verse brings the aesthetic, the aim, and the FUN of comics to the screen in a gorgeous way. I’m fucking thrilled that Miles is getting such a beautiful, unique, and frankly revolutionary introduction to the big screen.
This is my favourite one of these I’ve done! Gift for a friend, a tyrannotaur made from plastic toys. Experimenting with using a mixture of cornstarch and PVA glue to fill in the gaps.
I am the friend and I stubbornly call it a centaursaurus because death of the author and she lives at my house
so anyway I just turned around to admire my centaursaurus and… something seems different
There are two sides to every coin and sometimes you can’t
show the internet both sides bc you need to wait until the friend you gave the
first side to has it in their house and then swap the second side with it and
see how long it takes them to notice (several days) but here’s the tyrannotaur
and the dinosorse together pals for life
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