Thursday, November 09, 2023

"Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse"’s animators allegedly worked under unsustainable conditions

In a new report, multiple animators who worked on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse describe Phil Lord’s overreaching, erratic management style as the source of unsustainable working conditions.

In the years-long buildup to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s release, Sony — for understandable reasons — proudly touted how it had hired over 1,000 animators in order to bring the artistically ambitious project to fruition, and all of that intensive human labor definitely shows. 

According to a number of artists who contributed to the film, however, the working conditions they were made to operate under during the film’s production were unsustainable, erratic, and largely the result of producer Phil Lord frequently overriding Across the Spider-Verse’s three directors in order to make endless last-minute changes. 

READ MORE: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/23/23771199/across-the-spider-verse-working-conditions-phil-lord

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