Into The Spider-Verse: The animation revolution

“Moana,” “The Good Dinosaur,” “Brave,” “Christopher Robin.”  These movies embody the modern animation style that we’ve all come to love.

“Christopher Robin” pulled animation and CGI techniques together to create living, breathing renditions of Winnie the Pooh and his stuffed gang.

Animators on “The Good Dinosaur” created insanely detailed landscapes and water fronts. Bringing the cartoon dinosaur into an almost live-action jurassic world.

Both “Brave” and “Moana” combined the over-the-top Disney Pixar face and body animation with precise, detailed hair and eyelashes.

The animation world has become a competition between which movie can make the most realistic looking and lifelike world and characters. Audiences have come to expect to be able to count the eyelashes on a character’s face, to feel the leaves on the trees.

While the modern animation style has come to be loved and admired by most creators and viewers, there are a few in the animation world who want a return to what made animation famous: it’s ability to portray what live action cannot.

This is where “Into the Spider-Verse” comes into play. If you haven’t seen the new Spider-Man movie, it follows Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales as he suddenly develops mysterious powers that transform him into the one and only Spider-Man. He then meets Peter Parker and soon realizes that there are many others who share his special, high-flying talents.

Beyond a wonderful story and star-studded cast, the movie calls back the older style of animation, bright colors and clear drawings.

The movie repeatedly pays homage to the comic books from which it originates. It has a choppier flow, due to using 12 drawings to fill a 24 frame per second model.

Not only does this trigger a notion of nostalgia for comic books and old animated movies, it gives the audience more time to take in the beautiful artwork of each frame.

“Into the Spider-Verse” also utilizes the medium of animation to create scenes and pictures which are impossible to portray in a live action movie. The fight scenes resemble those of past Saturday morning cartoons— exaggerated and dramatic.

It was these elements that lead “Into the Spider-Verse” to claim the title of Best Animated Film at the Golden Globes, beating out the likes of “Isle of the Dogs” and “Incredibles 2”.

When watching this movie, you never forget that you are watching an animated movie. In fact, you are constantly reminded of it. Even so, you can still feel all of the things that the characters feel and be transported into the world of Miles Morales and Peter Parker.

“Into the Spider-Verse” is the start of an animation revolution, remembering the classic style and bringing it into the modern world.