![]() ![]() It was their heir fellow producer, Christina Steinberg, who actually made contact once it was decided that the movie would include a Lego-centric sequence. “It blew us all away, including some of the best animators in the world.” In addition to their work on the animated Spider-Man films, Lord and Miller also wrote and directed The Lego Movie. “We found out that it was a 14-year-old kid who made it and we were like, ‘This looks incredibly sophisticated for a non-adult, non-professional to have made,” Miller told the New York Times. ![]() When the video went viral, Miller replied personally, “Well done!!! Where were you in 2014 oh wait you were 6.” ![]() Mutanga lives in Toronto-his parents are a medical physicist and a public health instructor, respectively, but his mother Gisele told the Times that once they “identified that he had that gift, all we could do as parents was to nurture it and let him fly.” Preston had been honing his skills for several years, and working on that particular clip since December 2022. In early January, Mutanga shared a two-minute recreation of the Across the Spider-Verse trailer that he’d made with the software Blender to resemble Lego bricks. Preston Mutanga’s animation work impressed Spider-Man writer-producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller so much that they ultimately reached out to Mutanga to animate a particularly memorable sequence in the film. A24 may have an upcoming feature that’s directed by a 17-year-old, but Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has an even younger teenager involved in its striking animation. ![]()
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