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

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The innovative, mind-blowing look of the film is not as evident in this behind the scenes art book, which is all too similar to a hundred books like it. There are painstaking descriptions of how they rendered the art, trying to make it look as much like hand drawn comic book like panels. It felt cheap compared to the last art book, and some of the beautiful art is shrunk down to a laughable size that you can hardly appreciate all of the hard work the entire animation teams and artists spent their time on. No acknowledgement of where all those Easter eggs came from, and while Brian Michael Bendis gets plenty of credit, very few other creators are even mentioned.

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

You can also pick up a rare edition of the book, limited to 175 copies, complete with one of the prop comic books made for the film (pictured above) hand-inked by Marcelo Vignali and a signed tip-in sheet by Christopher Miller, Phil Lord, and artists from the film. With exclusive commentary from the animation team, plus a foreword written by Miles Morales co-creator Brian Michael Bendis, this extraordinary collection of art will take readers into the Spider-Verse. Addeddate 2023-07-21 05:34:29 Identifier across-the-spider-verse-the-art-of-the-movie Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2qcvzt4cqf Ocr tesseract 5. Take a browse or borrow from a library, but the most frustrating aspect of the book is the potential it had to be so much more robust.The film was dedicated to the memories of the creators of Spider-Man, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, who both died in 2018. We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. Whilst there are pages that go into great length about the different variations they played with the animation, such as the surreal and scribbled sensibilities of The Spot, there are pages devoted to the regular folk, whether it is the Latin-Americans living in Brooklyn, or Rio and Jeff Morales whose presence are just as important to the story as all the super-powered figures.

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The final result is a perfect achievement on both those tasks, leading to see it five times at the cinema and umpteen times on 4K. Persichetti, Ramsey and Rothman joined over the next two years, with Moore and Schreiber cast in April 2017. I wish there were more scenes – in fact, every scene – that got the spotlight, because after reading this fine book, I still feel like I'm scratching the surface and the ongoing question of how they achieved everything in Spider-Verse remains unanswered.

This was the 2nd ‘Art of’ book I got for the holidays and it’s for one of my favorite films of all time.

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

Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.I HIGHLY recommend seeing this movie, getting this book, and reading/watching any and everything you can find about the making of the film. Overall this is a pretty good "Art of" book, it is just missing that final "speculative" element to take it over the top. There are a number of pages where there is nothing but concept art and storyboards, some of which gives an idea about Spider-Verse in its numerous incarnations.