Here’s the run of shots I animated in the councilor’s office, with a hodgepodge of all the versions of ref I took! The amount of time & work these shots took is wild, but I couldn’t be happier to see all the latinos who feel as connected to it as I did 🧵
#AcrossTheSpiderVerse
Fun fact:
For this shot, I kept getting the note “make Jeff feel warmer” from my supervisor. So after a certain point I just submitted this… it did not make the final cut.
I don’t think some people understand how detailed animation notes can be in feature film.
Notes could be as large as “the emotion of the shot doesn’t feel quite right yet”. To as small as moving eyelashes just pixels to make a character look on model. We control everything
Here are a couple shots I animated of George and Gwen hugging. These were interesting cause they’re in a tight embrace, but emotionally so far apart. I wanted to slowly let them warm into the hug before that connection is interrupted again by George’s job
#AcrossTheSpiderVerse
Most of the time I just show the final 3 seconds of reference, but not the 30 minutes of frustration it took to get those 3 seconds. So I figured I’d embarrass myself for a minute to give you guys some insight on what it actually looks like to shoot animation reference 😬
David Zaslav on the performance of kids' programming on Max:
"We haven't really been able to crack the kids. We have a huge amount of kids content. We're going to attack that. We think that really differentiates us and we're going to have to really promote it. We haven't been."
You guys caught this one fast 🇵🇷 they say Puerto Ricans slap the flag on anything, so I wasn’t gonna be any different. There was no snap originally, but I pitched it and thankfully it stuck!
#Boricua
#PuertoRico
#SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse
For anyone curious, the “warmer” note meant giving Jeff a kinder and more supportive expression on his face . He’s happy to let Rio take over, but he’s also a supportive husband who’s there if she needs him. Here’s a deeper dive into these shots:
Some shots I did under the water tower after Gwen leaves. I had fun sprinkling in a little teenage attitude after Jeff & Rio kill the mood. But beyond that, Miles is also pretty hurt. So it took a few tries to figure out how the parents would feel after that scene 🧵
#Spiderverse
The Spider-Verse style allows for some really cool visual accents, and I thought it would be special for Rio to have one that represented her, while adding a hint of Hispanic flair to her anger 🇵🇷
I requested these shots when I saw them in the storyboards because I knew I had something personal to offer. I’m a Puerto Rican who isn’t fluent in Spanish… and my mom was one of the Spanish teachers at my school growing up 😬 my bad, mom.
Some shots I did under the water tower after Gwen leaves. I had fun sprinkling in a little teenage attitude after Jeff & Rio kill the mood. But beyond that, Miles is also pretty hurt. So it took a few tries to figure out how the parents would feel after that scene 🧵
#Spiderverse
And just like that, I wrapped on animation for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. 2 years of high highs and low lows. But in the end, I’m proud of everyone’s work that’s gonna be up on that screen on June 2nd. I’ll be hibernating if you need me 💤
If a Hispanic mom says “¡mira!”, you better look. I’ve definitely been snapped at, so I pitched the idea and they liked it! I also pitched a version where she slaps his bag, but we ended up sticking with the snap. And I’m glad we did :)
Miguel 👏🏼 got👏🏼back👏🏼
Here are a quick couple of shots I did of Miguel. Nothing too crazy, but I had fun trying to sell his anger with just his body language. When he tenses up, I tightened his back muscles and sharpened the angles of his silhouette
#MiguelOHara
#Spiderman2099
THE FALL GUY premiere at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood: one of the movie’s stunt performers, a parkour master, makes his introduction, wowing the crowd.
With all the buzz around the digital release of
#AcrossTheSpiderVerse
, I just wanted to shine a light on these crazy talented artists in the animation department. I got to work with some amazing people 🥹🕸️
Some shots I animated, but wasn’t able to take across the finish line. A good note came in to add the kiss on the cheek, but my plate was too full for me to do it. But I wanted to give this moment a spotlight because of how important it was to me and a lot of Latinos out there 🇵🇷
I got to animate the closeup of the first hug 🫂 it was fun getting to animate the right balance of how they were feeling during that hug, but I’ll post more about it later!
#AcrossTheSpiderverse
As a Puerto Rican this acting choice made me SO happy. Pointing with your lips is such a Hispanic thing to do, and everyone in my family does it. That small attention to detail is enough to hit me right in the ❤️. Someone send my love to this animator
#Encanto
#Animation
#Boricua
I loooove this moment in
#Encanto
. Observed and genuine choices like this are so rare in
#animation
. I remember seeing this in this in the theatre and almost screaming, "WAIT GO BACK I WANNA SEE THAT AGAIN!"
I got to do the last shot of Jeff and Rio in the movie, and this is what it looks like compared to the ref I shot with my friends. I hope you like
@remo0se
and his interpretation of how Spot descends from the sky. It’s rather menacing 🧵
#AcrossTheSpiderverse
If any of you already wanna watch Spider-Verse, please don’t watch all these new clips. As someone who worked tirelessly on it for 2 years, the goal was that you get to see it in the best way possible. Not through constant marketing clips on your phone. Trust me, it’s worth it!
Here’s another
#OverTheMoon
shot I did! This one was tough because Gobi’s such a wild and goofy character who radiates positivity. So how do you show him reflect on something negative? How much sadness do you let creep through, and how much is he trying to conceal it?
@leslievdb
We had a flat black plane floating on top of the blank face model, and we’d shape the black plane to look like it’s a cutout. Then we’d use a blend shape to hide/cave in part of the face behind the plane so it looked cutout. And for super complex shapes, we used grease pencil
The people have spoken! I’ll start posting some of my old
#BlueSky
Insta posts here too. This is another test I did during my internship with Lupe, the goat from
#Ferdinand
. She was hands down my favorite character, so I HAD to animate her throwing something up lol
#animation
This is a cool idea anim twitters! Here are 4 characters I have animated: (I have actually animated a weird amount of SIMILAR characters too...lotta cats, birds, & stuffed animals...
#animation
)
Now imagine these clips, but going for several hours straight, with waves of artists on the call getting critiques, multiple times a day. Shoutout Alan Hawkins, Bob Persichetti,
@mlasker
,
@okeefe_artist
, and all the other supervisors and leads on this crazy production 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Ummm…. didn’t every IP start out as an original idea? At some point, someone took a risk on an idea about turtles who eat pizza and fight like ninjas. With this kinda mentality, you’re killing any chance of coming across future gold mines like that.
Paramount CEO Brian Robbins says they are moving away from releasing original animated movies in theaters & instead will focus on IPs.
“We’re not going to release an expensive original animated movie and just pray people will come.”
(Source: )
Gotta hand it to the
#SpiderVerse
visual development, animation, and VFX teams. They drew inspiration from artist Egon Schiele to make Spot so much more than a villain of the week. 🫴🕳️
#CreatingTheSpiderVerse
This was easily my fave shot I got to do on
#OverTheMoon
. The finale of a
@Phillipasoo
pop song?? Insane. My lead was kind enough to let me tackle this one, and I was both pumped & terrified. Thankfully I had a lot of Beyoncé music to help me find my inner diva moon goddess ✨🙅🏻♀️
Saw Elemental this week, and it deserves way more love! It’s a fun movie with a lot of heart and some amazing animation and effects. Buy a ticket, spread the word, support original stories, and treat yourself to a good time 🔥💦 congrats to all my friends who worked on it!!
@MattyMcDee
I did a few! I animated Miles walking to the banister and putting his head down, and Rio and Jeff looking at each other when Jeff starts to leave. I also kinda did the “bendición” shots, but Bianca Gee helped me take it across the finish line. So shoutout to Bianca!
#Teamwork
A super cool poster that was up at
@SonyAnimation
with the names of everyone on the Spider-Verse crew. A lot of amazing people up there, and my imposter syndrome is through the roof. It’s an honor to work with those incredible artists 🕸️🕷️
#AcrossTheSpiderverse
It especially took a long time trying to find the right balance of “goofy” and “sincere” with Jeff. While Jeff is MORE than happy to let Rio take this one, he’s also a very loving and caring father who always supports Rio. So we ended up going in a warmer direction with him
This was an unfinished
@animationcollab
shot I started back in 2019. I had a lot of fun with it! But idk if I’ll ever hop back into it… time will tell haha
#Animation
#Unfinished
Guillermo del Toro says he has a “couple more live-action movies I want to do but not many. After that, I only want to do animation. That’s the plan.”
(via: )
It's finally
#AcrossTheSpiderverse
release day! I dug up some old videos from when the electrifying
@ereoflight
and
@DCeballos95
joined me to help with some video reference, and we were very VERY hard at work. I will applaud you if you can guess what shot this is was for
I can finally share what I’ve been working on this year!!! I’m so grateful to be working with such an amazingly fun and talented group of people. Hope you like our teaser! 🕸🕷
Nimona is coming to Netflix!
In a future medieval land, shapeshifter Nimona
@ChloeGMoretz
bursts into the lives of heroic knights
@rizwanahmed
+
@EugeneLeeYang
and blows up everything they believe in. An epic animated film adapted from the groundbreaking comic by
@Gingerhazing
One Spider-Man wants to change his own destiny. 🕷 Miles Morales returns for the next Spider-Man movie, exclusively in theaters June 2. Watch the new trailer for Across the
#SpiderVerse
now.
@HollywoodHandle
A lot of people here are assuming the worst. I think it’s important to note that this isn’t new. Animation companies have always done talks for other companies. Sony even just got a talk about Nimona. This industry is fueled by collaborative artists who are inspired by others
Saw
@MJtheMusical
this Saturday and it was genuinely the best show I’ve ever seen. I’ve loved MJ’s music since I was a kid. I would steal from my mom’s CD collection to listen to his albums in my room. So I was floored the whole time
#MJTheMusical
#MichaelJackson
#Broadway
Just wanted to spotlight my brother, Raul Ceballos. He’s an incredible voice actor who puts his all into everything he does in the booth. From creatures in The Last of Us, to Speedy Gonzales on Looney Tunes, and beyond. Give him a follow on IG!
@Naughty_Dog
#GroundedII
C’mon guys… Don’t diminish the skilled artists that create the work you get your views from with “VFX Artists React”. Represent the VFX and Animation industry. Don’t spearhead the replacement of it.
We went through a lot of directions for how this shot could play out. I took a bunch of reference to pitch different ideas, some of them have more subtle differences than others. In the end, we went with the more “ambiguous” take at the end
#SpiderVerse
#MilesMorales
Whether you’re fresh or seasoned in facial expressions/FACS, I’ve got you covered: Excited to see my site used in the research community. Saw my work referenced in papers on machine learning, emotion detection, facial puppetry & metaverse avatars
#anim
‘Twas the day before Christmas, before the Bad Guys turned good... 🧑🎄😈 The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday is streaming on
@netflix
November 30th 🎁
#BadGuys
I got to be a small part of this article about Latino artists who worked on Across The Spider-Verse. I am so grateful that I got to inject a little bit of my own personal experiences into Miles and Rio, and work alongside all these inspirational and talented Latinos. ¡WEPA! 🇵🇷
Even in quick shots like these, there’s still a performance to be explored. We pitched an idea of him eerily/slowly turning to Gwen, but we went with him quickly locking in on her instead
@throwawaymcgee6
@DylanVo68417
Animator here! Oners are TOUGH. If there are many characters, odds are multiple animators are working on the same shot. If those characters contact each other, the animators have to choreograph everything together to make sure it all lines up. So notes unravel that work quickly
Went to see The Broadway Sinfonietta perform Into the Spider-Verse live in concert!! They did such an incredible job! My favorite part was getting to watch them flex during the credits. Congrats on the amazing tour 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
#IntoTheSpiderverse
#Concert
#LiveMusic
This is the shot and the reference I used for the shot I animated from the new
#SpiderVerse
trailer.
If you've ever heard me speak about acting for animation, you've heard me say, "USE REFERENCE AS REFERENCE".
Concept art from a pitched ‘BATMAN BEYOND’ animated film — by director Patrick Harpin and PD Yuhki Demers (‘Across the Spider-Verse’).
“Before we pitched, they warned us ‘there is absolutely no way we can do a Beyond movie’, but they loved our enthusiasm. We pitched the outline
That’s so devastating. Obviously Blue Sky means the world to me. They gave me a chance right outta school and molded me from student to animator. I love you guys and am here for you ❤️
This week was my one year anniversary
@blizzard
, but it was also my last week. The Cinematics Animation dept managed to make me feel like part of the team, even though I never stepped foot on campus. I’m gonna miss learning from these people, and hope to work with them again :)