How the Spider-Verse Shaped Animation

One of the reasons for this film's success is the fresh animation style that sets it apart from other animated films released in 2018.

Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse celebrates its printed origins with bold graphics and many of the mainstays of the iconic comic-book style. This includes thought balloons, printed words, and the signature wavy lines that indicate the tingling Spidey Sense. A.O Scott in his review for the New York Times wrote that "the characters feel liberated by the animation, and the audience will too."

The film uses a variety of formal and stylistic techniques such as panels, Ben-Day dots, filter overlays, and even speech bubbles to visualize the source material, and in doing do address them.

What did this film do differently?

• Eliminate motion blur
• Some movements are so fast, the images appear smeared in individual frames of film
• Computer animation can simulate the effect, giving the imagery a smoother feel; eliminating the blur produces more staccato accents
• Borrow ideas from hand-drawn techniques
• In traditional animation, much of the movement is done "on two's": A new drawing is made or the image shifted every second frame
• Using animation on two's gave the artists more control over the speed and power of the movements.
• Working on one's and two's let the artists vary the rhythms of movements 
• For Example: When a scared Miles dashes through a snowy forest, his run is animated on one's to emphasize his speed
• For Example: When Miles leaps from skyscraper to skyscraper, the animation crackles with an energy it might otherwise lack. The motions themselves become exciting to watch, the viewer is engrossed in the movements of the characters on screen