

Thompson, with a screenplay by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and David Callaham. Sony’s sequel to their 2018 groundbreaking Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning film is now out in theaters, directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. This film is made up of a thousand little pieces of art made by a thousand different people.” It takes a lot of collaboration but, in the end, it’s about believing that what you’re making is art and having confidence in that. “I'm grateful to have found a place at Sony Pictures where they believe style is part of the storytelling,” says O’Keefe. the Machines, The Bad Guys, and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.Īnd, in the early production stages of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, when production designer Patrick O’Keefe was asked if he and the other animators would be “doing the same thing again,” he answered, “Yeah, we are. Into the Spider-Verse became the new creative bar that other studios aspired to aim for in films like The Mitchells vs. The film’s walk-into-a-comic art style brought together decades of different illustration styles and “Spider-Man” stories, making the most of 3DCG, 2D, noir, Japanese anime, and more. Requiring more than 170 animators, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was not only the studio’s largest, but equally, most ambitious feature film production ever. Five years ago, Sony Pictures Animation changed the game of animation forever.
