How Spider-Punk became the coolest character in 'Across the Spider-Verse'

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How Spider-Punk became the coolest character in 'Across the Spider-Verse'
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The 'Spider-Verse' filmmakers explain the groundbreaking animation technology behind everyone's favorite punk web-slinger — and how Daniel Kaluuya's ad-libs brought Spider-Punk to life.

) admires him. But he can't help but be won over by the charismatic Brit, who later helps him break out of the Spider Society.

Hobie's visual design is as wild as he is, and he careens across the screen like a punk rock poster come to life. The directors wanted to pull from a wide variety of influences, from classic '70s rock to more modern Afro-punk elements, and Hobie's collage-like design and color palette shifts frequently. He's also one of the tallest characters on screen, a lanky presence who towers above even Miguel.

"Initially, there wasn't dialogue there," Powers explains. "That was actually a piece of dialogue we wrote after seeing it in edit: 'How are you even cooler under the mask?' We threw that to Daniel in the recording booth and let him ad-lib a bunch of things. He started saying lines like, 'I was this cool the whole time.' And that's the one that stuck.

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