"Spider-Man: Parallel Universe" is simply a contemporary art book.
The six great Spider-Mans break the dimensional wall and cross the universe in the same frame. "Spider-Man: Parallel Universe" should be the biggest surprise that Sony Dafa has brought us this winter.
Due to the story setting of "Parallel Universe", a variety of different painting styles have no sense of contradiction under the animation technology, and the five-star visual effects and lens design continue to bombard. The picture plot that takes all adults and children makes this without suspense. The movie’s reputation was blown.
When asked why there are so many different styles of Spider-Man in the movie, screenwriter and producer Christopher Miller said:
We want to show as many characters as possible who turned into heroes after being bitten by spiders. No matter who you are, where you are from, or how old you are, whether you are a boy or a girl, or a pig, you can save the world. The characters are different and can be presented in completely different animation styles.
The artistic elements in the movie are hand-in-hand, and every frame with psychedelic colors makes my eyeballs climax. Today, Fu Mei is here to pick up the artistic styles that appeared in the best visual feast of the end of 18 years.
Comic performance elements
Sony Dafa is good. Fortunately, it uses CG animation as the base. It cleverly integrates the comic style into the 2D and 3D animations in the same frame, especially the hand-drawn graffiti.
The deliberate frame-drawing effect does not look smooth but has a short visual impact and residual vision, making the animation "Spider-Man: Into the Parallel Universe" like a thick comic book with countless pages-this The film’s visual effects supervisor Danny Dimian assured: “You pause at any moment in the film. Every frame in the film is real, sharp, and not blurry.”
"Parallel Universe" is a tribute to 2D animation and comics. The original intention of the production is: "not to make comics into animation, but to make a moving comic."
In order to enhance the 2D texture of the character, hand-drawn lines are added to the face. The buzzing sensor signal of the spider makes us feel like holding a comic book while watching the movie, which is obviously a successful way to open the animation adapted from Meiman.
Art chief creator Robh Ruppel is responsible for the pre-concept design, color script, and style definition. He used to be the art director of Naughty Dog and participated in the games "The Last of Us" and "Uncharted Seas".
Little Black Spider, Spider Gwen and Middle-aged Peter are in the same age, and their style of painting is basically the same. On the basis of ordinary 3D animation, various lines and shadows are added, which is very close to the style of modern American comics.
The background behind the character deliberately uses a phantom effect.
Look carefully, even the light beams of the car lights are comic expressions.
Text dialogs, onomatopoeia, comic divisions, subtitle special effects, etc. appearing directly on the screen are all classic expressions of comics. This experimental picture effect breaks the experience of the sensory dimension.
Is it very kind?
There are countless explosions, splashes, sparks and flashing special effects in the fighting part of the film. Hand-painted explosions were used in the battle with the Green Devils, and a two-dimensional visual effect was adopted.
Offset color printing effect
Taking the inspiration of comic books as a starting point, the filmmakers looked at the effects of offset printing and considered how to transform them into the visual style of "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse".
The static offset printing effect is applied to the dynamic movie, and the splash texture makes the picture more cool.
Glitch art
The film is also interspersed with a futuristic art form-glitch art (Glitch Art). In the movie, using this effect to express that characters and buildings from other parallel universes will malfunction in our world.
This term may be unfamiliar to many people, but in fact, as an art form, it arises from some common details in our lives-malfunctions of data and digital devices. Visually, the picture becomes a broken, defective image and distorted colors.
In new media art, glitch graphics (Glitch graphics) has become a unique visual language, slowly being accepted by artists. They not only represent imperfections, but also mean accidents and changes. Every failure is like a re-creation that breaks the norm.
Cyberpunk City
Although the film setting seems to be in modern society, friends who watch the film carefully know that it is not the dimension of our lives. The night view of New York City in the film is brilliant and dazzling. Relying on animation technology, it creates a cyberpunk city that conforms to the concept of parallel universe and has a sense of technology. It has the same tone as Blade Runner 2049, Ghost in the Shell and Top Player.
Cyberpunk is a subtype of science fiction, it constructs a dystopian future-this future has advanced science and technology, but this is only one aspect. On the other hand, illegal trade, underground gangs, political corruption and social unrest coexist at the same time.
In the traditional concept of cyberpunk scenes, most of them are rendered in dark environments with colorful lighting, creating a brightly lit and colorful sense of prosperity.
The distinctive characteristics of cyberpunk: dark, decadent, and desperate. But punk culture is obsessed with describing the darkness of this era, and the struggle of people in the dark, to reversely reflect that the world is still bright and promising.
The tall buildings in the bustling city seem to be crumbling, and the scattered neon signs make people fascinated. Under this exaggerated brilliance, what is concealing is the evil forces that breed behind this city. On the roof of a certain high-rise building, the little black spider leaped over the wall, and worked with his partners to punish and punish evil.
Japanese animation and black and white sketch style
In addition to the main universe of Marvel comics, there is also Peter Parker who uses violence to control violence and punishes crimes with killings. The universe of Shadow Spider-Man stays in 1930.
Due to the era background of the Shadow Spider-Man and the dressing style, the film's main creative team did not use 3D technology to produce, but used black and white sketch and black and white rendering to produce. Although the production method is different from 3D, it is not surprising in the movie.
It is worth mentioning that his voice is Nicholas Cage, which has fulfilled Nicholas's dream of being a hero.
Japanese girl Penny Parker, this girly Spider-Man driving a mech has all the girly elements in the daily comic.
The animator of "Parallel Universe" mentioned that he often watches Rimanga, so he is so handy when creating Penny's three-dimensional character. The animator Vaughan Ling who is good at mecha also showed the concept draft of EVA Spider-Man Peni on his personal page.
In the movie, Penny used relatively flat modeling and lighting. The little loli in the movie does not have delicate skin and hair, but her expressions and movements are as vivid as other characters.
In "Spider Universe", a parallel universe that pays tribute to the EVA series once appeared. The Spider-Man in this universe is called Penny Parker, and her father is the manipulator of the famous humanoid mecha.
Pop art style
Spider Pig first appeared in 1984 when Marvel released a comic for children. In order to retain the original comic status of Spider Pig, his color uses the style of pop art.
Pop art is an artistic style mainly derived from commercial art forms. Its characteristic is to enlarge and reproduce some details of popular culture, such as comic strips, fast food, and packaging with printed trademarks. Pop art developed in New York in the late 1950s, when the abstract expressionism it opposed was in its final period of prosperity. In Pop Art, the most influential and representative painter is Andy Warhol.
In the past, the comics were drawn with dotted paper. Later, the pop artist Roy Lichtenstein enlarged the origin and copied the prototypes of the characters, and put them on the canvas by flat-painting color blocks and accurate and strong black line drawing. Even the dots in the cheap color printing process have been copied tirelessly.
Pop style has appeared in movie screens many times, not just on Spider Pig.
The most amazing thing about the Spider-Man Parallel Universe is that it brings together several styles of painting, so that audiences who do not understand the concept of the multiverse can understand the characteristics of each Spider-Man through art, and at the same time, they can fully control the assembled vision. aesthetics.
From these artistic styles that are not in line with the public's aesthetics in "Parallel Universe", we can see a trace of rebellious spirit that is different from the past, and these new fusion art forms are definitely a breakthrough in the history of animation.
As Shirou Masamune, the original author of "Ghost in the Shell" said:
"I think it is necessary to create new types of science fiction works. It is not that the future will be the feeling of isolation and helplessness at the end of the century, but it should be brand new and more promising."
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