How many people are in Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse?! VFX Supervisor Mike Lasker reveals the details, and you won’t believe it!
How Many Spider-People In Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse?
During our exclusive interview with Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse VFX Supervisor Mike Lasker we just had to ask how many Spider-People are in this film, because it feels like the number is infinite. They just keep coming out of the woodwork, each one more exciting than the last.
The answer will probably surprise you. “It’s a tricky question,” Mike explains, “There’s a lot of numbers flying around. It’s actually not a set number.”
He goes on to say that the team basically had about one-hundred-fifty Spider-People that were Spider-People, but then part of the Spider-Person crowd system they built allowed them to expand on that number. It would give them logos and colors because there were huge crowds. “So, we could expand that into hundreds and hundreds and hundreds.”
Mike Lasker also reveals that they built fifty unique villains, which is what viewers see in all the cages. “We actually had a sequence where you were gonna see a lot more of them that ended up not being in the film. We had all these great villains.”
There were six hundred total rigged characters. “That’s basically six hundred characters that have rigs. That can talk. They can emote. It’s by far the most we ever did. When they’re on the train, and you see that horde of spider characters, that’s in the hundreds because you can just make as many as you want, basically.”
Mike Lasker confesses that he leaves the numbers alone a bit, because there really is no set amount. And as for the regular crowds in the movie? “When they’re at the barbecue on the rooftop, you compare the crowds in this movie to the first one, these have a lot more specific faces and clothing. They feel more like real people. We just tried to bring everything to the next level.”
See how the team behind Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse accomplished their goal by checking it out in theaters now.
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About Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man™: Across the Spider-Verse. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence.
But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most. Anyone can wear the mask – it’s how you wear it that makes you a hero.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is in theaters now.
Tessa Smith is a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-approved Film and TV Critic. She is also a Freelance Writer. Tessa has been in the Entertainment writing business for ten years and is a member of several Critics Associations including the Critics Choice Association and the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association.