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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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tarpit site.
#personal#delete later#for context a tweet i made in the middle of the night blew the fuck up and brought the attention of anime fans who've been#harassing and hassling me about my big factual blunder for an entire day straight#“ok i'll apologize” “bro it's not that serious.”#“you're right it's not that serious“ ”why won't you just admit that you're wrong and apologize!“#i'm not going crazy right. i feel like i'm getting manipulated into thinking i must've been wrong#it's crazy how twitter hate will trick you into believing saying something someone else disagrees with is a moral failing#sorry i haven't seen frieren i guess but what's it to you. i wasn't making a claim or statement#also because nobody has gotten this in the original post i wasn't talking about the quality of animation i'm talking about solid drawing#which is a very specific principle of animation. dandandan has really good solid drawing wherein all the characters are animated#with realistic and proportional 3d depth. newsflash but trigger doesn't prioritize solid drawing in their animation and that's fine#it's an aesthetic choice and has ties to production limits. none of this is a big deal. this is all so stupid lol#i've dealt with worse and more annoying weebs though it's fine i'll put on my clown nose twitter needs their stupid guy for the day#oh btw at the end of the day this doesn't matter. it'll be over by tomorrow. all that's happening is petty angry emotions.#so please don't involve yourself by jumping into the argument and prolonging this shit#i'm about to go on a date with tulli after being apart for a month this is the furtherest thing from my mind rn
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he is waiting
#pikachu#pokemon#pixel#pixelart#pixel animation#artists on tumblr#in one of those phases where i'm productive but not actually posting much lol#so i'm seeing how goofy li'l pixels will do
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you mean to tell me when uzi screamed “I AM GOD!” it was fucking FORESHADOWING????!!?
Liam.
#i’m so done#murder drones#md#uzi doorman#glitch productions#liam vickers animation#murder drones finale#murder drones spoilers#i have so many posts queued up oh my lordd
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So I ran a twitter poll asking people who their least favorite MD character was..
#fanart#indie animation#liam vickers animation#glitch productions#murder drones#murder drones fanart#spooky#serial designation j#j every day#murder drones j#funny post
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400% sure he would love steven universe
#trigun#trigun 98#doodles#art#comic#vash the stampede#nicholas d. wolfwood#steven universe#anime#my first contribution is an illustration that took me like a whole week to get through#my second contribution is a silly i was up till 6 am for#as god intended o7#hes so pathetic and sad i wanna shake him#^ every character i can say that about is my favorite character in the whole media hands down#we all cried during the bismuth episode dont say you didn't#EDIT IF YOU SEE THIS POST GO LOOK AT MY OTHER TRIGUN FANART FROM A WEEK AG O TOO PLS PLS PLS PLS P#edit 2 - EDITED WW's SKINTONE!!! the color reference i used made him look a lot paler than he's supposed to be. apologies!#i am so glad someone pointed that out before i put my trigun charms into production. i edited the charm too to be more tan#if i put whitewashed wolfwood keychains into production i would have SCREAMED
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Reblog If You Love And Adore The Amazing Digital Circus!! 🎪♥️
#the amazing digital circus#tadc#gooseworx#glitch productions#tadc caine#tadc pomni#tadc ragatha#tadc jax#tadc gangle#tadc bubble#tadc kinger#tadc zooble#indie animation#random post
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Something something N having wide hips
#Sorry for posting naked robots. It will happen again :[#smolldust#my art#traditional art#murder drones#murder drones fanart#liam vickers animation#glitch productions#serial designation n#Uzi doorman#nuzi
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They say "She used to be so kind"
I was listening Hermit the frog by Marina I thought it fitted v a bit too much and murder drones intermission reference
Also vuzi ship art–
#murder drones#fanart#artists on tumblr#glitch productions#liam vickers animation#murder drones intermission#MY LAST POST HAD MORE LIKES AND VIEWS THAN MY ACTUAL ART I'M CRYIN—#ibispaint art#vuzi
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Official character visuals for Kaiju No. 8 TV anime
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I will never stop being a white-hot dumpster fire of NUzi trash and you’re just gonna have to learn to accept that.
Really wish I'd posted this before Episode 6, tho. I think you can guess why.
#Murder Drones#Liam Vickers Animation#Glitch Productions#Uzi Doorman#Murder Drones Uzi#Serial Designation N#Murder Drones N#NUzi#Uzi x N#N x Uzi#Biscuitbites#Serial Designation V#Murder Drones V#Murder Drones Thad#F in the chat to the five people who didn't abandon Vhad for Vizzy#Can't believe y'all lost both of 'em#Straight From the Dragon's Mouth#Posts Worth a Thousand Notes
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#random post#murder drones#liam vickers animation#glitch productions#murder drones n#serial designation n#murder drones uzi#uzi doorman#murder drones v#serial designation v#murder drones j#serial designation j#murder drones thad#murder drones lizzy#murder drones doll#murder drones cyn#murder drones cynessa#murder drones tessa#tessa james elliot
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Lil gift
Give her her glasses she deserves them
This took 7 hours oh my lawd
#I still hate the way I draw V but hey I think I’m getting better#srry haven’t posted in a while school is killing#it’s not like I’m super busy or anything it’s just that school drain all my energy and when I come back home the only thing I want to do is#sleep forever#murder drones#murder drones art#murder drones fanart#murder drones comic#md#md comic#md fanart#md art#serial designation n#sdn#n fanart#murder drones n#md n#serial designation v#sdv#v fanart#v murder drones#md v#uzi#uzi doorman#uzi fanart#uzi murder drones#uzi md#nuziv maybe??#glitch productions#liam vickers animation
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God gave me Procreate Dreams and a vision.
#‘I love Time Bastard’ - Time Bastard in question:#I fear my shitposting has evolved into animations now#this sound is the new tiktok meme of the week and I coudnt think of anything else but this everytime I heard it#I have a uni deadline in less then a week and my brain woudnt let me work on it until I animated this#anyway this is also my attempt at getting better on posting on tiktok#ted spankoffski#theodore spankoffski#tinky#t’noy karaxis#the lords in black#lords in black#starkid#starkid fanart#starkid animation#team starkid#starkid productions#starkid memes#time bastard#starkid time bastard#nightmare time#time bastard nightmare time#nmt#starkid nightmare time#hatchetfield nightmare time#hatchetfield#hatchetverse#hatchetfield universe#fanart#my art#my animation
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The experience
#glitch productions#liam vickers animation#gooseworx#murder drones#the amazing digital circus#art#post
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the way some of y'all speak so condescendingly to & about vegans & vegetarians or just people trying to recycle or do a little better for the world is sick actually. sorry corporations are the real problem & everything is hopeless but I'm a receptionist lmao I won't fix that in my lifetime but I can minimize the animal products I buy & recyle & try not to buy aersol products & be nice to people. sorry the idea of doing the bare minimum infuriates some of u guys to ur cores but like. get fucked
#this is about a specific post condescending to vegans & vegetarians about how animal products are natural but also#this is a WHOLE culture on here that has always & will always infuriate me to my core#the world is ending & big corps & billionaires are behind it#i get that i'm not stupid#but i can do the very bare minimum to not make things worse where i can avoid it#sorry not fucking sorry
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