He's on the floor getting robbed by chickens.” The chickens are a deep-cut reference to the mischievous chicken (voiced by Abbi Jacobson) who challenges The Master (voiced by Jackie Chan) featured in “ The Master: A LEGO Ninjago Short,” proving that Preston is a true LEGO animation fan. “There was a guy getting his money stolen by chickens,” laughs Preston. I used that signature mini-figure on a lot of my older videos and I just thought it would be cool if I could just sneak it in there somehow.” Preston's cameo can be spotted in the bottom left wearing a blue shirt and riding a green bicycle! (Credit: Sony Pictures Animation)Īnd there are a few other cameos too. Preston was also able to add some personal Easter eggs to the scene: “I was the one on the bicycle.
It was a bunch of little changes, but eventually, I think the final result was worth it.” Credit: Sony Pictures Animation Then he was supposed to turn around, then he turned around clockwise. “First, was just intended to just walk straight. The hardest shot to animate – partly because it evolved so much – was actually the way that Peter walked across the office of The Daily Bugle. I animated it once then never touched it again,” meaning that he didn’t have to address any notes on it or keep changing it.
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The software just kept breaking.” However, while the program struggled with the taxi animation, Preston adds, “That was one of the things I actually got right, right off the bat. “Getting the pieces to fall down you'd like simulated was hard. First was the taxi crash that Miller showed in the animatic. So which shots were the hardest to bring to (animated) life? Two come to mind for Preston. Peter Parker changes into his Spider-Man suit.” What you see in the final version of the film uses everything Preston animated, which is a blessing in this industry. “But it was the same concept: Peter looks through the window, sees the taxi crash into the building, rushes into the bathroom while J. “I ended up building my own that was completely different,” Preston explains. The Millers’ version used real LEGO blocks to create the exterior set of the Daily Bugle. In addition to the storyboards, Miller and his son filmed and sent over an animatic, or an animated storyboard, of the scene for Preston to recreate. Then they showed me storyboards for that.” On school nights after he finished his homework, Preston would virtually meet with Miller and Steinberg over Zoom, discussing and planning the LEGO Daily Bugle scene in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.Īs for the scene that Preston would be animating, he was given the following context: “It's The Spot discovering he has his powers and he's going through different portals, and he eventually falls into a LEGO dimension. “Two months planning, then one month actually animating,” says Preston.Įven while taking part in this incredible opportunity, Preston was still a student first and foremost. The team was surprised to find out that he was only 14 years old: “I remember them saying, ‘Is it even legal?’” They were able to make it work and all-in-all, the entire process of producing the scene took about three months. Thankfully, there was still enough time for this collaboration to happen - even with the film coming out in June. I recreated the entire second Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer in LEGO! ( 🧵) #AcrossTheSpiderVerse #Blender /IlWfuEpp3Q- LegoMe_TheOG May 24, 2023
“But then they DM’d me on Twitter, which is how I found out that they e-mailed me. “Sadly though, I didn't see the e-mail until two months later or a month later because it got sent to my junk,” Preston admits. It was producer Christina Steinberg who reached out to Preston via e-mail the next day to set up a meeting. The quick timeline: Preston published his LEGO recreation of the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer to his YouTube channel on January 3, 2023, and it quickly got the attention of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. I started with the Pixar look, that kind of stuff, but then eventually leaned into LEGO animations because I liked how charming they were.” When asked why he chooses to animate in the LEGO style, he explains: “I played with LEGO a lot when I was younger.
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Prior to the Spider-Verse LEGO recreation trailer that got Lord and Miller’s attention, Preston’s YouTube channel featured LEGO recreations of TV and movie scenes. His father, Theodore Mutanga, used Blender for work, and soon Preston was “hooked” on using the program when he realized the possibilities it offered him for 3D animation.
At the same time that moment of inspiration struck, Preston learned about the 3D computer graphics software Blender.
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