Pop art and characters make animation works disseminated and dynamic, and they are inseparable from the shaping of characters. To create a classic character, in addition to designing the character's drama and the direction of the storyline, it is also very important to understand and control the character's appearance and personality.
"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" is set in an alternate and multi-parallel world, and in this context, many Spider-Man characters in the film come from different worlds, each with their own characteristics, and they are all expressed in a pop art style.
The image of the villain Jin Nai uses the enhanced characteristics of Pop Art's emphasis on graphic outlines. In the design of animated characters, the main feature is the generalization and exaggeration of the character's appearance, and the pop style reinforces this generalization.
The shape of the villain Jin He can be summarized by the splicing shape of cubes and circles, and his character modeling is simple and exaggerated, but it is very memorable. The square and the circle are contrasting shapes that clash with each other, and the designer blends the softness of the circle with the sharpness of the square.
On the one hand, Yuan shows the delicate emotions of Kim and misses his wife and children, showing his gentle side; On the other hand, the massive square silhouette shows King's rejection, brutality, and desperateness, as well as his terrifying brute strength that can stand up to multiple Spider-Mans.
This exaggerated design of different geometric shapes concisely conveys a visual experience to the audience, allowing the audience to grasp the personality traits of the characters at once and feel the differences in the characters.
On the other hand, for "Spider-Man" from a parallel world, the film uses the style of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. The artist is widely known for his bold combination of comics and advertising, which is formally expressed in a completely flat two-dimensional approach.
With bright colors and flat coloring techniques, geometric patterns such as squares, lattice, dots, lines, and triangles are used to decorate, and patterns are used instead of shadows to delineate the relationship between black, white, and gray.
"Spider-Man" itself plays a harlequin in the film, responsible for being funny and funny, and its flat design is in line with its two-dimensional and three-dimensional, cross-space setting, for example, taking out a life-size gavel from a small pocket on his body, and the two-dimensional treatment makes the character's unique moves more reasonable.
For flat characters, the audience is no longer concerned with the appearance of the character, but on the impact of the environment on the character and the character's actions in response to different environments.
It is through this style that the entire animation team adopts flat forms and graphic symbols, compresses the space, etc., so that the complex cartoon style image is completely integrated into the space as the main world, and the picture as a whole is clearer, clearer, harmonious and unified.
In the film, the design of the color of the characters in the pop style film also has a different meaning. The distinct color uniqueness of the pop style has become a highlight of the animated film.
First of all, the pop style color is very recognizable, even if the color scheme of Spider-Man's costume in the film is limited, the creator can still refine the color according to the personality characteristics of each character, and add the colors belonging to each character on the basis of the existing red and blue color scheme, so that the layers between the characters are more distinct.
In the film, the female Spider-Man Gwen's color scheme is white and purple, and the high-brightness colors jump out in the black, blue and red, giving people a sense of lightness, echoing the lightness and flexibility of the character dancing with spider silk.
Shadow Spider-Man comes from the black and white world, and pure black is his main tone, but in order for the characters to exist harmoniously in the picture, the creators added a small prop for him:
A Rubik's cube composed of highly saturated colors, this bright color expresses the emotional state of Shadow Spider-Man's desire to feel the rich color world, showing the character's rebellion against the monotonous black and white world and the character's own romantic postmodern thinking.
Miles, the protagonist of the film, has a strong love for street art, and a lot of space is used in the film to portray the protagonist's deep interest in graffiti.
In terms of color, the protagonist starts with a red and blue color scheme, but after absorbing pop culture elements, combining graffiti culture and street art, the protagonist has a new color. Pop art acts as a trigger point for the character's personality to be unleashed and moves the story forward.
Pop color shows the change process of the protagonist's inner emotions from ups and downs to calm and calm, and then to the pursuit of personality independence, and at the same time, this color change also reflects the inner contradictions of the characters and the gradual growth of the characters in the changing environment.
Secondly, in addition to the use of pop art color contrast in the characters' clothing, the confrontation of the scene itself also helps to shape the characters and arouse the emotional resonance of the audience.
