Reading Blog 3 (2026) : Making the Spider-Verse
- lewe7871
- Apr 30
- 2 min read
I watched a behind the scenes video on the making of Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse and came out of it thinking about my own work differently.
The first thing that hit me was just how beautiful this movie is on a purely visual level. You can pause it at any random frame and it looks like a print you could hang on your wall. Every single shot was composed and crafted by a person making a deliberate choice. The hatching, the cross-hatching, the illustrative shading style — all of it creates this feeling that you've stepped inside a comic book without it ever feeling cheap or gimmicky. It sets a boundary between what needs to feel physically real and what gets to just feel alive and expressive.
What really got me though was when the creators talked about how not everything in the movie is physically accurate, and how that's completely intentional. There's a shot of Spider-Man jumping off a building in New York City that looks absolutely incredible. But if you zoom out on the 3D model of that scene, the buildings are eight to ten times their real size, half of them are tilted at wild angles, and the ground curves outward like the earth is doing something it definitely doesn't do. It makes zero physical sense. And it looks so much cooler because of that.
They also used New York City almost like a character itself, with each neighborhood reacting to and interacting with Miles differently, making the city feel genuinely alive.
I think about this in my own work a lot. The stuff that looks coolest is rarely the most accurate. Sometimes breaking the rules is exactly the point.
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