14-Year-Old Artist Was Recruited To Create Across The Spider-Verse Lego Scene

gamespot.com:

In the landscape of social media, artistic jobs are landed in interesting ways with fan artists getting hired for official work with an IP they love. In the case of 14-year-old Preston Mutanga, it was his impressive recreation of the Across the Spider-Verse trailer in Lego form that got him the job for the Across the Spider-Verse movie.

Mutanga uploaded his Lego recreation of the trailer to Twitter back in January and caught the attention of Spider-Verse directors Chris Lord and Phillip Miller. Impressed by the young artist's creativity the directors reached out to Mutanga to help animate a scene for the film.

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«We found out that it was a 14-year-old kid who made it and we were like, 'This looks incredibly sophisticated for a nonadult, nonprofessional to have made,» Miller told The New York Times. «It blew us all away, including some of the best animators in the world.»

Mutanga began animating as a kid after his father