The Spider-Verse Effect on Animation 

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Back in animation school, one of the teachers told me, "the future of animation is not in realism, but aesthetics." those words got stuck in my head since then

Another thing that is important to mention is that Spider-verse makes a concious effort to appeal to more of a teenager audience, while it's still apropiate for evrybody, it's not targeting children like Illumination or even some of Disney's recent releases. ATSV is getting the full blockbuster treatment in a way animated movies usually don't, and with Sony cooking up an R-rated release we might actually see the stigma of animation being only for children removed from the general audience.

Spiderverse winning best animated feature is hands down one of the BEST things the Oscars has ever done. In a year where both a Pixar and Disney film was nominated, the fact that a freaking COMIC BOOK movie WON is phenomenal and made other studios take it seriously.

Yeah you can feel the Spider-verse influence in Bad guys, Puss in Boots, and Mitchell vs the Machines. I fully expect more animated films to explore stylized animation over realistic ones.

I think the most important thing about this development is that studios don't try to copy spiderverse, but rather learn from it and also gain the freedom to be able to experiment with animation style. I don't want a world with hyper-realism clones or a world with spiderverse clones, but I am grateful that spiderverse told studios that audiences want to see a variety of styles.

Amazing stuff like Spider-Verse, Arcane, The Mitchells and The Bad Guys have proven that you can do so many creative things with 3D animation, that some animation studios like Disney and Illumination (Although we might see this change with Disney’s Wish and Mario movie) haven’t explored that yet. I hope we get to see more experimental projects like Spider-Verse in the future.

Even Luca and Turning Red are more stylized than we're used to from Pixar

As a wise man from Pixar said : animation isn’t a genre, it is a form of entertainment medium 👍

I'm so excited to see Peter B again. He's living proof people would love to see an older Spider-Man

I have a newfound deep love for this movie for getting Spectacular Spider-Man to return. If he somehow gets some dialogue and gets to talk about events we didn’t get to see I’ll cry tears of joy

I feel like Spiderverse showed studios that they didn't need to be afraid to experiment

I feel like Pixar has been making an attempt to change things up recently. Luca and Turning Red definitely have distinct art styles. Even Disney seems to be trying something new with the upcoming Wish movie.

I agree that Spider-Verse and Arcane are definitely pushing the boundaries of animation. They are showing how animation can be a superior format to tell these fantastical stories by leaning into the strengths of the format.

It’s cool that Dreamworks thought to take some cues from Spider-Verse. I’m interested in seeing the Puss in Boots sequel due to its animation. It’d be nice to have a video game akin to Spider-Verse that influences other major game studios to do more stylized games rather than realistic. While unlikely, after Spider-Verse, I’d be down for Sony to collab with WB to do an animated adaptation of Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man if only to see Superman and Spidey meet in the art style of Spider-Verse.

It's not like Disney hasn't dipped their toes in this 2D/3D animated style. Paperman and Feast were and are my favorite animation they've made since then. It's baffling that they have the capability yet they don't realize it

I feel like Klaus also deserves a mention, since it approaches the idea of mixing 2D and 3D from a completely different angle

Thanks for mentioning the homogenization of Disney's character designs in its recent movies. One thing I thought from watching the Strange World ads on TV was "those designs do not fit with the scenery". I think it worked better on Raya and Frozen but yeah, I wish they've have more variety. Just to compare, there were more typical designs like in Beauty and the Beast and Hunchback to more stylish like Pocahontas and Atlantis. And Hercules had Gerald Scarfe (from Pink Floyd's The Wall) as main character designer. And those designs still slap.

As a die-hard 2D animation fan it brings me such joy that movies like Spiderverse push the boundaries and blur the line of 3D and 2D, and we are even still getting some incredible 2D movies! The Rise of the TMNT movie this year fucking killed me dead where I stood, it was so incredible and GORGEOUS. I never want 2D to die. There is something to it that almost no 3D movies can grasp. Spiderverse is the best of the ones that have attempted it but things like the Mitchell’s vs Machines, Bad Guys, Arcane… it’s exactly as you said. Trying to stick to realism can only take you so far, Disney. It’s when the animation lets loose with style that it really shines.

If anything it's things like Spider Verse, Arcane, Paperman and any other stylized animation that's come out before that inspired more films/shows to represent the hand of the artist rather than the hand of the executive. I hope this continues and I hope this inspires more studios to back off and let the filmmakers and artists do their thing.

Fun fact: if you go to the Wiki pages of most of these movies, in the production section Spider-Verse is always referenced as inspiration for the art style

The fact Lightyear pushed realism to the max to the point it became uncanny and expensive only to get beaten by a dinosaurs and a talking Cat in Boots.

I think Tron: Uprising deserves a lot of credit as well. The studio behind that show was mixing 2D with cgi even before Spiderverse. Also, I believe a bunch of the animation team for Spiderverse worked on Tron: Uprising too.

Puss in Boots 2 unironically slaps really hard

This is why animation is better than live action. There's more possibilities, more potential, and enjoyable for everyone. I don't care if I'm an adult and still am watching cartoons, they are hard work. Watching someone's drawings blows me away

Spider-Verse is a straight-up masterpiece

I've been thinkin about this exact same thing for about a year. Into the Spider-verse is literally a historical movie, and that makes me so happy.

And if it wasn't for Alberto Mielgo, the Original Art Director who then worked on projects for Love, Death & Robit, Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse wouldn't have changed and inspired more industry to being creative.

In the intro to 'The Animators Survival Kit' the author notes how animation is one of the oldest forms of art. Even in ancient Egypt artists experimented with animation. One of the quotes that stuck with me from that book was "animation can do what the camera can't" and I love that we are getting so much good animation in so many different styles lately.

Spider verse is still the best Spider-Man movie, it’s way better then no way home

Spider-Man into the spider verse is possibly one of the most underrated movies of all time

Experimental animated movies like these always have a gripping appeal to me as an artist to just check it out no matter what, and spiderverse’s huge change should be taken more seriously, and maybe it’ll show that animation is an art form that can be enjoyed no matter what age or interest.

at 10:37 when you say “in a few years Disney’s gonna have to adapt” you’re actually right on the money because Walt Disney Animation Studios’s next film Wish (which is releasing in November 2023) is apparently gonna be combining hand-drawn animation with CG animation

9:35 great point, I definitely agree that 2d sequence in Kung Fu Panda was great

Making 3d illustrations animations is pretty impressive glad this format is becoming more mainstream because of the spiderman movies, it is really nice to see

Just as a heads up, I love this movie and so I've got a lot to say so strap in folks. When it came to Into the Spiderverse, I didn't watch it until 3 or so years after release and I only really gave it a try because my friends kept saying how good it was and holy shit do I regret not seeing it on the big screen. It instantly became my favourite Spuderman movie even beating out Spiderman 2 (yes I am a Raimi stan). I love everything about it, from the various artstyles to the animation to the messages and themes of the movie. You could just tell that this was pure, unfiltered passion by a group of people who love the character of Spiderman. I mean c'mon, that animation. The fact that in certain scenes Miles is animated on 2's compared to Peter who is animated on 1's to show that it feels more natural to Peter to web swing than it does Miles. This isn't just a visual thing, it's telling story and building character through the animation and through the visuals. It's funny how Browntable mentions 'oh it's focused on Miles, why not Peter?' because I feel like that's how Miles character is in the story itself (especially in the Miles Morales game). Miles is trying to move out of Peter's shadow and become his own Spiderman. Life imitating art ey. I could talk for days but I'll leave it here with this. Spiderman Into the Spiderverse is everything I love about Spiderman, the character of Spiderman and what Spiderman stands for. If you like Spiderman, you're almost guaranteed to love Spiderverse, nuff said.

The fact that this was posted BEFORE the new spider verse movie that was like better in a way than the first one shows how amazing they both were.

I feel like while Spider Verse gets the love it deserves, movies and shows like KFP 3, Hotel Transylvania and TRON don’t get the love they deserve for pushing colors, aesthetics alongside overall animation to its limits, like you said Spider Verse is an amalgamation of that, i just wish these movies could’ve gotten some of that love

Spiderverse is so good that I've only seen it once. It was so good that I refused to rewatch it until it fades in my mind a bit, so i can go back and appreciate it again for everything it does.

Speak on it!! I'm glad you made a video on the how Spider-verse is changing the animation landscape. The passion and knowledge comes across strong here since you're both a fan of the medium and an animator yourself 👏🏾👏🏾

i watched puss in boots 2 when it was first released in theatres and IMMEDIATELY noticed how much spider-verse influence there was - especially with the Wolf, and the opening sequence with the giant of Del Mar

Who can forget the anime sequence in Kill Bill

Entergalactic is a great Netflix animation movie and needs more people talking about it. The animation style of Spider-verse caught the eye of everyone.

Oh crap! I wasn't expecting to see my fanart here, it's been like 2 years since I drew that lmao. Thanks for including it (in a Spider-Verse video of all videos too).

I love when shows and movies embrace a visual style. One of the things I love most about OddTaxi is the style of animation let's you see the world from the main characters perspective not what it actually is. Great video, you should be proud of this one.

Disney is gonna change up too actually, there is a new movie “Wish” which will come out next year and while the trailer isn’t officially out yet, there are still leaks and it looks like it will have a water color illustration style and the buildings look like the buildings from 101 Dalmatians, so it will definitely be a visual treat.

I know with Pixar’s Luca they exaggerated a lot of things which made it different from some of the more recent Pixar projects. the director used frame techniques and effects from old school 1930s animation and described his process as trying to move away from the technical aspect as much as possible. The character animators were directed to have them move like stop motion figures. It felt like a good balance given the environments and lighting and ‘realism’ aspect were absolutely gorgeous while still having a strong stylistic flair to the movements and gesture

I’m glad Spider-Verse is inspiring other studios to follow suit. It’s criminal that it’s the lowest grossing Spidey movie by far JUST BECAUSE it’s animated.

I think this movie planted the idea of a movie can be 3D but doesn't need to be 3rd dimensional. While working on a project I went through the movie on frames because I realized some of the comic panel frames would be amazing for wallpapers. I thought those frames look and feel like an artist drew them and then inserted them which creates the feeling of flipping through a comic but saw that the other frames have a similar feel of being doodled on and the way they blended in the smash effects were similar to how a child would read a comic and insert their "pows" and "wams". This meaning even though the film was in 3D it had a 2D layer on top of it where they could place the iconic comic popups and make the film more dynamic and stylized in a comic book format.

I remember hearing in a video that said something to this effect Animation, like all other types of tv and film medium, is treated like an investment by the people who green lights these projects, they don’t want to spend money on a project only for it to flop financially. This means that before Spider-verse, these people would heavily encourage “make the film look realistic, realism sells”. Then Spider-verse comes along, these higher ups at Sony decided that “Spider-man sells, he’s popular in the MCU, he sells lots of merchandise, feel free to experiment”. So the crew behind Spider-verse did just that. And now, after seeing the success of Spider-verse, other companies are going “you know what? Maybe animated films don’t have to look realistic, copying Spider-verse’s animation style might even make animated films look more appealing to audiences”.

I love how Wish might be the first Disney movie in a while besides the soul world in Soul to try a more hybrid animation

Im just glad to live in the universe this masterpiece won the oscar and not the wreck it ralph sequel that NEVER came out...cus it doenst exists... Banger video like always,i hope this video reaches everyone...

It's also very worth mentioning that one of the direct influences on Spider-verse from anime is Land of the Lustrous! Specifically the character staying in the same place in the frame on twos, while the background moves on ones.

this is gonna be the best movie ever made of all time

Absolutely phenomenal video!! I'm glad you touched on Puss in Boots: The Last WIsh and Entergalactic!

Honestly, Across the Spider-Verse is my most hyped movie of 2023. Not just because I freak'n love Spider-Man or because I'm excited to see Mayday Parker finally on the big screen (which make no mistake, that's a good 50% of why I'm pumped), but as an animation fan. I love that Sony and DreamWorks are finally following this movie's example and making their animated movies feel more cartoony than ever. Now I just wish Disney would catch up, cuz it's hard seeing the house founded on animation not even try. For now though, HOLY CRAP AM I SO EXCTED FOR THIS MOVIE!! I can't wait to see all the different artstyles they implement, or how Miguel O'Hara's brash attitude will conflict with Miles, or how Miles's relationship with Gwen will develop, or how Peter B. will handle being a dad, or if Spectacular Spider-Man really makes a cameo like one poster suggested. Ugh, I NEED THIS MOVIE NOW!

00:34 I *just* watched this trailer and it made me so happy. Animated movies are finally embracing the medium again. Looking animated/illustrates again.

Puss in boots 2 is a prime example it's so good

‏‪4:38‬‏ I LITERALLY GASPED WHEN YOU SAID THAT IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST ANIMATED MOVIES I EVER WATCHED AND IT WAS MY FAVOURITE MOVIE AS A KID

Just saw Puss in Boots 2 and it was gorgeous and very well written. It looks like a fairy tale book and the artists' concept art come to life. I see the obvious inspiration from Spiderverse, but it has its own take. Disney whored itself to 3d and one specific look that got bland real quick. I'm glad studios like Sony, Dreamworks and Fortiche (studio behind Leage of Legends' Arcane) are doing such creative work, bringing magic that only animation can inspire

You know, I've actually heard that Disney Animation IS starting to change, as apparently their next movie, Wish, the one celebrating the company's 100th anniversary, seems to be getting the Spider-Verse animation treatment as well!

The sad thing is that Disney very well could have made a movie mixing 2D and 3D, after having made paperman. I wish i knew where to find it, but I remember them saying in an interview that a movie like that would take too long to make. Therefore they missed out on this innovative art style. It's pretty sad considering the studio's history with animation innovation

Wanna know a movie that would absolutely be a smash hit given the new animation hype and craze going on right now? I've got two words... TREASURE PLANET!!! If that movie was rereleased this year it would absolutely be a hit with it's blend of styles

I was just talking about this after seeing Puss In Boots because I loved it's style so much haha. I very much noticed that trend and I am incredibly grateful Studios finally realized that there is so much more to do (because Creators were very much aware already haha)

I just hope we get many more movies and shows with the same creative power as spiderverse and not just spiderverse clones (like entergalactic).

i remember my family made me go see it in theaters and i was kinda meh about it going in cause i dont care about spiderman, but i really liked it mostly because the animation was so pretty

Alot of the animators from Entergalactic, had previously worked on Spiderverse. Pretty cool!

The movie showed us animation has much potential

Pootis engage and pootis engage extreme are both indie animations that have an amazing animation style. Those two hour ish long duology fucking rock.

I’m a firm believer that smear frames and motion lines belong in 3D animation just as much as they do in 2D

i knew spiderverse would be great BECAUSE of the style. even if it turned out terrible, i'd still have watched it for the style alone

Once again, Browntable delivers. Love to hear you talk about stuff like this, especially a topic that's always changing, in this case animation. Happy to know you appreciate Into The Spider-Verse for what it did for our animation culture! You're easily one of my favorite youtubers to listen to on topics like this, and love to hear your takes on movies, series, and general media. Keep it up! You make people's days better.

I never was the type of guy to check for animation spider verse made me fall in love with animation and is my most anticipated movie of 2023

Entergalactic is one of my favourite Films!!

Spider-Verse's success is good. Even NFS Unbound has implemented cartoony effects into their game, and so far, players seem to like them.

I don't think Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is talked about enough in terms of visual style and animation.

In an era where it feels like everything “back in the day” was better than what we have now, it’s refreshing to see a modern trend that’s legitimately great. Animation is finally evolving and becoming more lively, and I love it.

I literally just submitted my prompt to write this as my grade essay two days ago wth

That movie deserved Oscar. For first time in history cgi animation was used in artistic way, instead of following the same pattern for 20 years.

After watching this movie for the first time, I knew it was special. My first impressions going in were "I'm gonna be so out of touch with this film or that it's just gonna appeal to a younger audience with unnecessary pop culture (thanks Emoji Movie)" or "Ok so this is the hero's story. I've heard it all before that I could literally write it on a napkin". But for some reason, the animation made this story somewhat both new and nostalgic. What I got was an amazing product created by a bunch of people who had a lot of fun with every frame and movement. My favorite part of the animation is specifically the expressions of the characters (so full of life and emotion). It made animation not a genre, it made animation a medium of telling a good story, as Brad Bird would say.

When I was a kid and watched the 2012 TMNT that was the first time I really saw 3D animation with a lot of 2D elements in it. Similar to how teen titans used anime elements so did TMNT 2012, except TMNT was 3D and kept the anime parts 2D. As a child that was mind blowing. You can imagine as an adult seeing that used more and more makes me extremely happy as that was the first time I felt the two worlds truly blend.

Sony has showed most prominently DreamWorks with Badguys and Puss and Boots 2, that stylized, 3d animation is fantastic

Realism != Good Art Favreau's *Lion King* is a technical marvel, the technology that was developed for that movie was astounding, every hair on Simba's body individually has more polygons than 2B's ass, the characters rigs *precisely* model and follow the constraints of real-world zoological anatomy and yet... Moments after Mufasa dies, and Simba looks up and realizes that he's about to be trampled to death by wildebeest as they're stampeding into the gorge... The shot looks like a picture taken of a real world lion cub that's watching a bird flit around on tree branches dozens of feet away. It's like they were so scared to be called "an animation," that the characters don't have any _animation_ at all!

Let's goo a new Spider-Man video! Also hard agree on the thumbnail

The first thing that came to mind when I watching Puss in Boots was exactly this: “Damn, Spiderverse shook them hard”

First off I just wanna say you did an excellent job explaining the affects the latest Spider-Man animation had on the animation industry I believe that a lot of what we see an animation is grown stale and stagnant and that’s how I feel about AAA gaming studios nothing is really new and everybody’s trying to search for the sense of realism when it takes the uniqueness away from each story all I have to say is that you yourself earned a subscriber and I like for this video I will keep paying attention do your animation and other things! as a manga artist, im going to stay in touch!

the Good Dinosaur is amazing, I love the realistic landscape there. It's a great contrast to the goofy characters and I think it helps to tell the sad story of the movie. But I totally agree with you, we really should be getting more crazy creative looks/worlds in animation

This was one of the best movies I have seen in theaters in recent years 😊

If you like stylized animation in a really good show, then I highly recommend watching The Clone Wars. It might be a drag to get through the first couple seasons depending on your patience with this kind of thing, but believe me, it is SO worth it when you get to the end.

If we're talking about other studios trying to 'replicate' its style in their movies, it so easily could've been a situation of them trying to knock off Spiderverse with little substance. But I've been pleasantly surprised so far to find that those movies have great substance of their own and not only feel like engaging dramedies, but beautifully creative movies as well that drove me in. For that reason, I'm absolutely here for Spiderverse's effect being legendary, because so far, it's done nothing but made animated movies better.

i dont think animated 3d movies have ever tried to replicate the real world, but there has been a change since spiderverse, i think a good example of this is The Bad Guys, it has a similar animation style, with lots of exaggeration in the movements another movie that has adopted this sort of style is Turning Red, which is obvious in the facial animations, the only 3D animated movie that i think truely tried to imitate the real world is probably Rango

The fact that Disney has still not made a whole movie in the animation style from the 'Paperman' short is proof that they have no idea what they are doing anymore.

Spiderverse is my favourite animated movie and most rewatchable movie for me along with the incredibles

This video establishes that STYLE *always* kicks realism's ASS!

I think 2 movies, like Lego, that each differently helped to pave for Spiderverse and modern 3d movies are Peanuts movie and Hotel Transylvania. The 1st showed that current animators and tools could make very stylized 3d, and big studios had will to spend on it in a big IP. The 2nd showed that animation shouldn't just be grounded/held back and it can be more dynamic using what Genndy learned in 2d cartoons. Speaking of Genndy, my dream project is him adapting One Piece using the teams from Spiderverse and a good budget. His mastery/appreciation of action, Japanese media, and cartoon goofiness paired with the artists' talents to stylishly convey comics would give its best version outside the manga. IMO there's unused potential but in reality the only IPs allowed to have cartoons are niche-established manga, but eventually a capable animation studio with enough clout can get rights to something.

finally somebody's acknowledging entergalactic, that's masterpiece is so underrated!

Even pixar has started embracing a more cartoony style with Luca and Turning Red.

As someone who is still pissed about The Owl House, if Disney wont adapt due to their ego and end up left behind that will be hilarious to me

I am so glad this movie is made. Not only was it just a good movie, but it set a standard for Western Animation. That the audience likes a more mature story with good visuals (it isn't rated R or anything, but it is a more mature film than anything Illumination dumps out), and those visuals make my inner artist feel things. Its thanks to Spiderverse that we get things like Bad Guys and the recent Puss in Boots movies, which take pages from the Spiderverse playbook, and prove even more that people like this. That it was good. I can't wait to see what the actual creative minds of Hollywood can come with given this knowledge, whether its Spiderverse 2 (which I don't remember when I was this excited to see a movie in theaters), or something we don't know about yet.

The animation in the movie is so awesome and cool video man :]