idiosyncratic look of hand-drawn animation. As a commercial and critical success, it set a new bar for what could be achieved in a 2D-inspired look. “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ...

was a CG/2D hybrid; Spider-Ham (John Mulaney) was a hand-drawn delight; Spider-Noir (Nicholas Cage) was a black-and-white throwback; and Spider-Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld) was free-spirited and balletic.

The hand-drawn aspirations of Spider-Verse required a reinvention of the standard animation pipeline to even be possible. Sony Pictures Imageworks, working closely with Sony Pictures Animation ...

As a commercial and critical success, it set a new bar for what could be achieved in a 2D-inspired look. “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” features six different animation styles. They range from ...