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Wicked is a story about two things first and foremost:

Finding community with and advocating for other marginalized people

Yuri

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Elphaba is the kind of autistic where it is inconceivable for her to mask and Glinda is the kind of autistic that has her mask so firmly in place that she doesn't even realize she's doing it. They are in love also

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SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE Gwen & Miles

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New Across The Spider-Verse images from the trailer release after party!

1. Jess Drew aka Spider-Woman 2. Pavitr Prabhakar aka Spider-Man India  3. Hobie Brown aka Spider-Punk (fun fact - Gwen’s new shoes in the trailer are formerly Hobie’s!) 4. Mayday Parker 5. Mumbhattan (based on 70s comics in India) 6. Gwen’s world (based on the gouache watercolor style of Gwen’s comics) 7. Nueva York 2099 (based on 70s and 80s Syd Mead drawings of the future)

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Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099 in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

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Spider-Punk

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Oh yes, here come the hundreds of Miguel O'hara fanfics with badly made spanish interjections.

So a bit of advice: just use full phrases. Instead of throwing one spanish word inside an english phrase, use full spanish phrases. Is more natural and sounds better.

Edit: I see y'all in the notes who want to write better, here is some advice for you to do it.

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idk i think they are the best. their posters are just so good. their comic book style is just *chef’s kiss*

i think their posters just help tell where their story is going in this movie which i also ADORE !!! i love gwen even more after this movie somehow. (🏳️‍⚧️)

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✨ not a role model, but a runway model ✨(he’s been rotting my brain) — good news, i just opened a ko-fi!

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SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023)

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The star Hobie Brown

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Got back from seeing the movie again and a tiny theme I liked was the solidarity in the younger POC generation vs the older gen.

Margo, Hobie, Pavitr and Miles all had eachother’s back. They fought together, they helped eachother in small ways like Hobie telling Miles to use the palms, and big ways like Miles saving Captain Singh and Margo letting Miles go “home”.

They could’ve stopped him, they could’ve not helped eachother but they did. Because they understood and they all realized what was wrong with the Spider Society. All of them at the end came together to support and help Miles, in the way the rest of the spiders couldn’t and didn’t.

And when you put that into perspective with Miguel and Jessica, older POC that gave no support. They believe that Miles has to suffer in order to become Spider-Man, that pain will always have to happen.

But the others don’t believe that, they know that best way to be a hero is uplift and help eachother. Often the parents, the older generation compromise their morals and others for the future, for them to grow up safer and yet the future generation always has to reckon with the consequences of those actions without even having a say in the first place.

That’s a damn message, and I love that they used the younger poc generation to show that because this does happen in real life, there is a difference and our parents, our grandparents believe that pain has to happen for our identity to be created.

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the fruity four of spiderverse

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what do you think the coolest thing you got to work on in the new spiderverse was? or was there anything you were completely geeked to work on/with?

definitely the coolest thing shot-wise that i got to work on was pavitr's entrance, i animated everything from when we first see him to when the camera zooms in on his face going into his comicbook backstory (this one!)

i helped with a couple aspects of pav's overall animation: his hair, his eye shapes, and playing with how he uses his bracelets in combination with his webs!

his hair is geo, meaning it doesn't get simmed by cfx because the directors wanted it to keep its graphic shape. so i designed some different hair blendshapes for modelling to create for us and worked with rigging on how to best incorporate the different shapes into the rig, then animated wind cycles for other animators to drop into their scenes. animating hair is not normally something that animators are expected to do in feature animation

his mask eyes, by default, came into shots looking very smooth and rounded. i referenced art done by one of the concept artists to give him "diamond shaped" eyes with more nicely weighted lines, along with several other library poses for animators to use so that they don't have to do all the shaping themselves (it took a long time because it required moving literally almost a hundred controls on each eye haha)

and finally, pavitr uses his webs with his bracelets to fight and get around! he uses his bracelet sort of like a spin top, keeping it spinning on his webs while standing still. i animated this first shot of him flicking it off his wrist:

my first pass on this didn't have that close up of the bracelet at first and our anim director, bob persichetti felt like we couldn't read it well enough and mentioned trying some crazier slow motion stuff like in RRR. so i went and watched RRR and immediately understood what i needed to do lol. i asked rohini kumar, another supervising animator on the movie, for some hindi onomatopoeia and she gave me this one, 'tadaak' which i'm told is sort of like a whack or pop!

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Spider-Punk design by Jesús Alonso Iglesias & Evan Monteiro

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SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023) dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson

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Looking at this scene more closely, something seems familia-

...

Oh.