Only a few days after its release, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is already being hailed as an animation marvel and an intriguing blend of media. Even a tiny allusion to Insomniac’s future Spider-Man game is made in the movie.
However, one scene in the most recent Spider-Man movie wasn’t made by a sizable crew of animators and creators; rather, it was made by a single 14-year-old animator after his earlier work went viral.
Stop reading right here and turn around if you don’t want to learn a minor spoiler regarding a scene in the upcoming Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse movie. You’ve been made aware.
One of the best-looking films of the past ten years is Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, a magnificent and breathtakingly beautiful movie that combines dozens of different art forms. We get to see a tonne of different versions of Spider-Man, New York City, and the renown rogues gallery as Miles Morales this time explores even more worlds. In another brief segment, the Spider-Man universe is depicted in Lego form, replete with a Lego Minifig Peter Parker.
Preston Mutanga, a 14-year-old, built the Lego-ified versions of Spider-Man and New York that can be seen in the recently released animated movie. In the brief scene, we see a Lego recreation of Peter Parker skulking into the Daily Bugle’s lavatory to inform another Spider-Man about a spatial aberration. Even though the scene was brief, it was a hit at my theatre and rivalled anything in the most recent Lego movies in terms of visual quality. Several of my friends even remarked after seeing it that the animation must have been done by the same crew. Yet, no! Actually, it was just one teenage boy.
People who worked on the movie praised Mutanga for his efforts when he acknowledged on Twitter that he animated the Lego scene. At the conclusion of the animated superhero movie, his name is listed among the credits.
Previous Spider-Man and Lego masterpieces by Preston Mutanga
The Spider-Verse crew probably learned about Mutanga because one of his earlier Lego creations went viral. His remake of the initial Across The Spider-Verse teaser went viral on Twitter and YouTube earlier this year. Additionally, his Lego-animated remake of the second trailer for the film went popular in May and was even retweeted on May 25 by the Spider-Verse Twitter account.
You can view more of Mutanga’s remarkable work on his YouTube account, which is jam-packed with Lego animations, if you’re interested. He has also provided some behind-the-scenes movies showing how he uses Blender and other software to build these incredible Lego scenarios.
