There was a time after LOTR was released I probably would have watched Peter Jackson do anything, but since the Hobbit he has completely shattered my image of him and nothing excites me about the Mortal Engines trailer. I suppose I have never read the books either so maybe it is more engaging for those who know the story.
Looks amazing, but can someone catch me up on the basic conceit? I figured this trailer would explain why there are so many Spider-Men/Women, but I'm still just as confused. I know that Miles Morales is an alternate universe Spidey/comic, but I always thought he was the only one in that particular universe. Is the "Spider-Verse" based on any comic, in particular. And again, did they all get bit by the same spider or what?
Looks amazing, but can someone catch me up on the basic conceit? I figured this trailer would explain why there are so many Spider-Men/Women, but I'm still just as confused. I know that Miles Morales is an alternate universe Spidey/comic, but I always thought he was the only one in that particular universe. Is the "Spider-Verse" based on any comic, in particular. And again, did they all get bit by the same spider or what?
So they actually do/can exist in the same universe, though not all the comics necessarily include all the characters. There also some weird alternate universe storylines because comics.
In Homecoming, Donald Glover makes a comment about looking out for his nephew. That nephew would be Miles Morales, and Glover's character becomes a villain called the Prowler who spends time on both sides of the law. (Also worth noting that Peter's best friend in Homecoming is heavily borrowed from Miles' best friend in the comics.)
In the original Miles' origin story Prowler steals a sample from Oscorp and a spider from the experiment crawls into his bag, and that spider bites Miles when he's visiting his uncle's apartment. In that universe Peter Parker is killed and Miles takes over as Spider-Man.
There's a few reboots of that storyline, the current of which has an older and alive Peter Parker running Parker Industries and operating globally as Spider-Man while Miles protects NYC.
Spider-Gwen was an alternate universe character, not quite sure how she'll tie into this one.
TLDR this looks to be borrowing from a few different pieces of source material.
You bet.The spider that bit Miles isn't the same spider but is one that was exposed to Peter's blood. I believe in Gwen's origin she was the one bitten, not Peter, but not sure how that works into this universe.
This just became my most anticipated film of 2018. Just, wow.
As an animator and designer, I really can't express how hard I'm geeking about this film right now. This is more akin to stylized 2D animation than CG, some of the details they're bringing into the light and shadows and aberrations as well as the inserted 2D frames are just beautiful.
I think the animation looks amazing, although there are a few parts where it seemed like something was up with the framerate? Almost like claymation? I don't know anything about it, so I'm probably not describing it correctly, but does that make sense at all?
I think the animation looks amazing, although there are a few parts where it seemed like something was up with the framerate? Almost like claymation? I don't know anything about it, so I'm probably not describing it correctly, but does that make sense at all?
It totally does actually.
Stopmotion/claymation animation is generally done on 2s, meaning that when animating for film at 24 frames per second you're animating one frame for every two frames of film (a frame is animated then held for a frame, i.e. on 2s).
There's places in here where they animated on 2s or even on 3s, giving it the stylized sort of stuttery look that you're seeing.
I saw someone discussing it on Twitter and apparently it's utilizing some kind of anti-blur animation that's really hard to pull off, but that might be contributing to that effect. From what I understand, if you were pause most animated movies during the action, you'd see a blur. But not with this movie. This guy is in the know and was totally geeking out about never having seen that before.
They're doing SO much in this film that I've never seen before. All the chromatic aberration, inserted 2D/comic frames, called out graphic sound effects ("BOOM"), random shifting of the RGB channels to create fringing. I'm going to be frame by framing this thing all evening trying to figure it out
What you're referring to is probably a lack of motion blur on the frames, which also makes sense. When animating in CG you generally have the computer simulate the motion blur you see when shooting an object on a video/film camera, while in stopmotion animation that blur doesn't exist because you have two still photographs that you're showing in sequence to create the illusion of animation (unless you blur it in post). I'd be interested to read that thread to see what he gets into.
Good question. On pedigree/subject matter alone, without having seen footage yet for roughly half of these (and based on the footage we have seen), I'd say something along these lines...
01. First Man 02. Mission: Impossible - Fallout 03. Ad Astra 04. Sicario: Day of the Soldado 05. The Old Man & the Gun 06. Hot Summer Nights 07. Creed II 08. Widows 09. Holmes & Watson 10. Backseat
Runners up:
11. A Star is Born 12. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 13. Bohemian Rhapsody 14. If Beale Street Could Talk 15. Newsflash 16. Where'd You Go, Bernadette 17. BLACKkKLANSMAN 18. Untitled Noah Baumbach Project 19. Beautiful Boy 20. The Front Runner 21. Aquaman 22. Serenity 23. The Girl in the Spider's Web 24. White Boy Rick 25. Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2
It's super under the radar for the time being. I'm thinking we have to get a trailer at some point this summer, though. It basically sounds like Apocalypse Now set in space. Brad Pitt. Tommy Lee Jones. And apparently James Gray, the director, is striving to shoot the most "hyper realistic" space film to date. Cannot wait.