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Across the Spider-Verse’s animators allegedly worked under harsh, unsustainable conditions

Miles Morales in his Spider-Man suit either falling through or being sucked into a hexagonal vortex made of glowing orange, red, and blue light.
Miles Morales going on a trip. | Image: Sony Pictures

In the years-long buildup to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s release, Sony — for understandable reasons — proudly touted how it had hired over 1,000 animators in order to bring the artistically ambitious project to fruition, and all of that intensive human labor definitely shows. According to a number of artists who contributed to the film, however, the working conditions they were made to operate under during the film’s production were unsustainable, erratic, and largely the result of producer Phil Lord frequently overriding Across the SpiderVerse’s three directors in order to make endless last-minute changes.

In a rather damning new report from Vulture, four animators who worked directly on Across the Spider-Verse described the…

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Author: Charles Pulliam-Moore. [Source Link (*), The Verge – All Posts]

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