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How a 14-year-old boy directed a scene from ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’

A fan of the franchise, who made an impressive Lego trailer of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Versewas hired to work on the film.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Versenow in theaters, impresses audiences with his visual inventiveness. Mixing 2D and 3D like no other animated film, it also includes a sequence made entirely out of Lego. Its creator: Preston Mutanga, a 14-year-old with no experience in animation.

It all started for him last December, as he told the New York Times. A fan of the franchise, he decides to recreate the Lego trailer image by image. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

hallucinated with the result

For a few years now, his father has been teaching him how to make short films with Lego figures. “My dad showed me this software called Blender and I was instantly hooked. I watched a lot of YouTube videos teaching me how to make my own videos.”

His version of the trailer, praised by netizens, does not go unnoticed. Even Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the directors of lego’s great adventure and producers of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Versethey are amazed by the result.

“When we found out that a 14-year-old kid had come up with something so sophisticated, it really shocked us. Even some of the best animators in the world were blown away,” Christopher Miller told The New York Times.

“A Gift From God”

When they decide to include a Lego sequence in the film, they contact Preston Mutanga to ask him to animate it. Reluctant for a while, his parents agree and his father even builds him a computer to make it work better.

“I know Preston has a gift from God, and once we identified that gift, all we could do as parents was encourage him and let him fly on his own,” said his mother-wife.

Preston Mutanga worked on his streak last spring, during spring break and at night after his homework. All of this was supervised by Christopher Miller, with whom he regularly discussed the progress of the project via videoconference.

“‘The Lego Big Adventure’ was inspired by people who make little Lego movies,” recalls the producer. “The idea of spider verse is that a hero can come from anywhere. Here we have a young man who was inspired by the film, who in turn was inspired by people like him.”

Author: Jerome Lachasse
Source: BFM TV

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