Shooting for the stars at 14! A boy with extraordinary animation talents gained instant fame when it was revealed that the makers of the newly released Marvel film ‘Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse’ hired a 14-year-old boy to donate his talents to the highly anticipated movie. .
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- The creators of ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’ give animation work to a 14-year-old boy
- The team was shocked to learn that a 14-year-old boy was behind the LEGO trailer.
The creators of ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’ give animation work to a 14-year-old boy
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While not many know Preston Mutanga’s name, looking at his record, the boy is on a steep climb. The 14-year-old contributed to the $235 million movie that many of you would have rushed to see on the big screen.
Mutanga is from Toronto, Canada, and landed a job on the ‘Across The Spider-Verse’ animation production team when producers Chris Lord and Phil Miller saw the frame-by-frame remake of the movie’s trailer for the movie. LEGO blocks. , they were completely blown away and wanted him on board. Definitely not bad for your industry debut.
The boy uploaded his version of the trailer to Twitter on January 2 and that’s when the producers found out about the boy’s talent. Since the duo were directors of 2014’s ‘The LEGO Movie’, they both know a thing or two about animation style.
I recreated the entire Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer in LEGO! @philiplord @chrizmillr @terry12539 @LEGO_Group @SpiderVerse #LEGO #SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse #animation #Blender3d pic.twitter.com/kYY19go7Fc
— LegoMe_TheOG (@FG_Artist) January 3, 2023
The team was shocked to learn that a 14-year-old boy was behind the LEGO trailer.
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When the team decided they wanted a scene in ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ set in a LEGO universe, they decided to contact Mutanga. Miller told The Times: “We found out it was a 14-year-old boy who did it and we said, ‘This looks incredibly sophisticated for someone who isn’t an adult and a non-professional to have done it.”
He added: “It blew us all away, including some of the best animators in the world.” The boy worked on the film remotely while he was still in Canada and received frequent checks and feedback from Miller.
Mutanga shared, “I adored the first movie and was so excited for the second one, so working with the people who really made this masterpiece was honestly like a dream.”
The guy also animated the second trailer for the movie:
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