2. Project Summary…
For this presentation, I
will review the five
process groups of the
making of the movie
“Spiderman: Into The
Spider-Verse” with the
lens of a Project Manager.
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4. Initiating…
Where did the Idea arrive from?
• Plans for the animated film
announced in 2015 at Cinema
Con
• Intended to co-exist with live
action spider-Man
• Original script was written by
June 2016
Original creators of the film idea?
• Brian Michael Bendis
• Phil Lord
• Christopher Miller
What made them make another
Spider-Man movie?
• Wanted to make a Spider-Man
movie that “will stand on its own as a
unique film-going experience”
• The focus of different Spider-Man
character
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Here are
some
examples!
5. Planning…
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Production Team
• Bob Persichetti to direct
• Peter Ramsey co-directing
• Christina Steinberg producer
Making of the Story line
• Script credited to Lord and Rodney
Rothman
• Romance between Miles Morales and
Spider-Gwen scrapped
• Considered post credit scene
because of marvel standard
Scope
• Project constraints
• Project Stakeholders
• Marvel/ Spider-man fans
• Production team
• Cast members
• Budget
• $90 million
8. Executing…
Animation Approach
• wanted the film to feel like "you walked inside a comic
book
• Adapted 70-year old comic book art techniques for films
visual language
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Film Art Techniques
• CGI animation for the film was combined with all sorts of
comic book techniques
• frame rate varied between 24 and 12 images per second
How long did
filming take place ?
• First full cut of animatics
and storyboards for the
film was over two-hours
long
• Took around a year for
two animators to create
10 seconds of footage
• Animations began in
mid-2015 and was by
Completed by October
2018
9. Film Visuals…
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Methods used to make
it look more like a comic
were halftones and Ben-
Day dots, crisscrossed ,
Kirby Krackle, motion
lines, and
onomatopoeia
10. Distribution
Trailer Releases
• A thirty-second tease was shown at Sony
Pictures Animation presentation in January
2017
• Teaser trailer debuted at the 2017 Comic Con
Experience
• Official trailer released in June 2018
Use of Sony Platform
• Venom release featuring post credit scene
• Added Peter B. Parker to Sony Featured PS4
Spider-man game
Film received $115 million promotional
boost from various companies
Product Placements include:
• EBay
• Vodafone
• Adobe
• Garmin
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The
Soundtrack
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12. Monitoring & controlling
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Initial animation
• Started with 1 animator and grew to 60
× Increased to 142 then Ended
with 177
• Threats of missing deadline
• The film was actually moved up one
week
• Miles Morales' best friend and
roommate originally had a bigger role
but was rewritten due to Spider-Man:
Homecoming having a similar
character named Ned
• initially considered using Silk as their
Asian-American Spider-Man
• Peni's designs went through a few
iterations before they envisioned her
in an art style similar to that of Sailor
Moon
14. Accolades
Won Best Animated Feature Film
at the 76th Golden Globe
Awards
Won the same award at the 24th
Critics' Choice Awards
Won the Best Animated Feature at
the 91st Academy Awards
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16. weaknesses
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• Strobe lights
• Animated Movie
• Centered around a specific
demographic
• Animation Process
• Is not made like a traditional action
film
17. opportunities
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•Spider- Man Fan Base
•Diverse characters
•Released the same year as Black
Panther
•Features various artists from black
panther soundtrack
•Positive Industry response
18. Threats
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•Many Spider- Man Films
•Inconsistent animation
•Released between Spider-man
homecoming and Spider-man Far
From Home
•First of its Kind