The animation team behind the new movie 91裸聊视频漇pider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse91裸聊视频� knew it had to be different.

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After six live-action movies in 15 years featuring the webbed crusader, the team felt the new offering needed to look completely unique. A fresh animation style also suited the story, which centres on Miles Morales, a Brooklyn teen of African-American and Puerto Rican heritage who gets bitten by a radioactive spider.

The animators, largely based in Vancouver, ultimately came up with a creative technique that is drawing praise. They used computer-generated animation to craft an esthetic that looks like a mixture of traditional hand-drawn animation and CG, even figuring out a way to do hand-drawn line work on top of three-dimensional characters.

91裸聊视频淲e91裸聊视频檙e just aesthetically combining that mixed-media feel,91裸聊视频� he said. 91裸聊视频淚 think a lot of the ingredients we used have existed in other places, but this combination is new.91裸聊视频�

Beveridge, 36, is based in Culver City, Calif., but the majority of the 180-person animation team on this film worked out of Vancouver, he said.

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91裸聊视频淭hat91裸聊视频檚 where the muscle and the heart is. That91裸聊视频檚 where the whole team is. That91裸聊视频檚 where the movie was actually made,91裸聊视频� he said.

Vancouver is booming as a graphics hotspot with about 60 animation and visual effects studios. It helps that the city is diverse, has strong art schools and is an attractive place to live, said Beveridge.

The movie pushes boundaries with its content as well as its style. Based on comic book characters created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli, the film follows Morales as he develops superpowers including camouflage, sticking to objects and incredible hearing.

But when criminal mastermind Kingpin develops a nuclear supercollider that opens up a portal to other universes, different versions of Spider-Man are pulled into Morales91裸聊视频檚 world. An older Peter Parker appears alongside a number of new spider-heroes, including anime-inspired Peni Parker.

Beveridge said there are dramatic moments in the story that help elevate animated movies as a genre.

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The film won rave reviews ahead of its release on Friday. Beveridge said he91裸聊视频檚 relieved after feeling nervous about how it would be received.

91裸聊视频淲e knew we were taking risks. We wanted something different and when you91裸聊视频檙e living with those decisions for so long in secret, you end up having doubts that you91裸聊视频檙e living with as well,91裸聊视频� he said.

91裸聊视频淥ne of the lessons I91裸聊视频檓 walking away with after completing this project is: In art, if you91裸聊视频檙e living in fear, that probably means you91裸聊视频檙e onto something.91裸聊视频�

Laura Kane, The Canadian Press

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