As part of the 50th SIGGRAPH computer graphics confab taking place in Los Angeles this week (2023.siggraph.org), the artistic tech wizards at Sony Pictures Animation (The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) presented its Sony Creators Conference, spotlighting the studio’s latest groundbreaking accomplishments.
In the presentation “Engineering for Creativity at Sony Pictures Animation,” Yiotis Katsambas, SPA’s Executive Director of Technology and a Distinguished Engineer at Sony Corporation, reveals how the studio leverages production tech tools to enhance creativity, not hinder it.
Watch the half-hour presentation below (also available with American Sign Language here).
The SCC session follows a flurry of “Beyond the Screen” videos recently posted by Sony spotlighting the creative and production processes behind its smash-hit sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The playlist on YouTube offers six bite-sized BTS featurettes exploring the creative-tech harmony, the film’s signature art looks, the Vulture’s “living drawing” effect, how Spider-Punk disrupts the ‘Spider-Verse,’ the creation of Mumbattan and a virtual set tour of Gwen’s Universe.
Check out Beyond the Screen: The Creators Behind ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ below, featuring on-set interviews with directors Justin K. Thompson, Joaquim Dos Santos and Kemp Powers; lookdev supervisor Bret St. Clair; FX supervisor Pav Grochola; VFX supervisor Michael Lasker; and lead assistant editor Erika Scopelli. The full playlist is available here.
