New SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Photos Show Off the Three Spider-Man Characters Together!
The big, worst-kept secret in Hollywood regarding Spider-Man: No Way Home has been out for a while. The cast and crew have been openly talking about it and now the first official photos have been shared online that show Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire teaming up as their versions of Spider-Man during the awesome climatic battle in the film.
The images were shared on the visual effects and animation online magazine befores & afters, and it also features the VFX artists talking about and breaking down the job of bringing these three versions of Spider-Man together for the first time.
Visual effects supervisor Chris Waegner, who worked on the past Spider-Man films, said, "It was a very exciting opportunity to work on this film, having worked on quite a few of the previous Spider-Man films while being at Imageworks. Having worked with each one of the actors and each one of the directors, each of them brought their own style to the franchise and to the big screen for the fans. It's such a passionate fan base which spans across many different age and gender groups."
Waegner added, "There will be children seeing this film with Tom Holland as Spider-Man for the first time, while there are folks who are older, maybe comic book fans, who originally saw Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man on the big screen, or years later saw another installment with Andrew Garfield in that role. It was very important to us to do the franchise justice. I know director Jon Watts and VFX Supervisor Kelly Port were equally as passionate about this franchise."
Well, they perfectly managed to pull it off and the fans aren’t complaining. Waegner went on to say that he and Imageworks rebuilt the digital Spider-Men assets saying, "It became clear we had to start over and rebuild new Spider-Men. Another key decision in building the new Spider-Men was that the actor's physical appearance had changed as they aged. Luckily for us, the studio has maintained its in-depth photographic history of what the original suits look like for both Tobey and Andrew for our build process."
When talking about bringing the climactic battle together with the characters, he said, “We focused our efforts on really bringing forward each of the Spider-Men's physical personalities or their individual spider-style, if you will — how they swung, how they shoot webs, their physical proportions when they achieve an iconic pose. So our animation supervisor, Rich Smith, who has also worked on several Spider-Man films, had our animation team review the previous films. We studied clips of each actor and reviewed their individual spider-style from these films. We then layered in these signature performance characteristics so that each Spider-Man had their own unique style when seen next to each other."
I loved being in the movie theater with a theater filled with fans when the Statue of Liberty battle scene played out! I’m excited for the next Marvel movie that does something huge like this!
Via: ComicBook