It blew us all up

A 14-year-old artist was able to live his dream when the makers of the latest Spider-Man movie asked him to work on the movie.

Preston Mutanga made waves earlier this year when he got involved Video he made Recreating the “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” movie trailer in LEGO style.

The two-minute video went viral, finding its way to “Spider-Verse” writers and producers Chris Lord and Phil Miller.

“We found out it was made by a 14-year-old, and we were like, ‘This sounds incredibly complicated for a non-professional, non-professional,'” Miller, who co-directed 2014’s “The LEGO Movie” with Lord said. The New York Times. “We were all blown away, including some of the best animators in the world.”

When it was decided that the multiverse-hopping movie would add a LEGO-themed LEGO sequence, the filmmakers reached out to Mutanga to give him the chance to animate it.

They were initially met with skepticism from Mutanga’s parents, who were not sure the offer made to their son was genuine. But once the parents were persuaded, Mutanga’s father bought his son a new computer with a high-end graphics card so that he could work.

The Times reports that the teenager — who is 15 years younger than the film’s protagonist Miles Morales — made the sequence during his spring break and on school nights, and would periodically meet with Miller to follow up on its progress.

“One of the new things I learned was definitely the feedback side, like how much things actually change from the beginning to the final product,” Mutanga told the paper, adding that “working with the people who made this masterpiece was honestly like a dream.”

Mutanga’s work even got his name in the film’s end credits roll.

Across the Spider-Verse is currently the top movie at the box office, with a score of 96% from critics and audience scores. Rotten tomatoes.

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