Blender Used in Across the Spiderverse!
It’s confirmed! Blender, and more specifically Grease Pencil, has been used in the production of Spiderman Across the Spiderverse!
Grease Pencil was used for certain effects in Spiderman. It is really rewarding after these 10 years of development (together with @antonioya_blend & @mmendio ) to go to the cinema to see this masterpiece. What an experience!#SpiderVerse #Greasepencil #b3d #Blender #SpiderMan pic.twitter.com/SCDaSBdK3L
— Daniel Martínez Lara 🔶 (@_pepeland_) June 6, 2023
The news was first broken by GP Godfather Daniel Martinez Lara, before more details starting to surface about how exactly did Grease Pencil fit into the movie’s pipeline. Grease Pencil is used as a freehand drawing tool by animators for adding strokes and some 2D line FX, which are later transformed into a mesh and repatriated in Maya via a script to make them visible in the animation playblast for validation.
We had to write code to generate geometry from the Grease Pencil stroke to take all Blender data back to Maya so artists could view and playblast them with the rest of their scene.
— scontreras (@scontreras) June 10, 2023
Grease Pencil continues its meteoric rise and its future is brighter than ever before: After being used for everything from feature films to Blender’s latest Open Movie, GP is now undergoing a major re-write that will ensure its compatibility with Geometry Nodes and more features starting Blender’s 4.0 release due by the end of the year.
