Debuting in “Across the Spider-Verse” as a friend and possibly love interest for Gwen Stacy, Hobie Brown made her comic book debut in “Amazing Spider-Man” (Episode 3) #10 in November 2014 before the first work. solo story in “Spider-Verse” #2 2015. He’s been a part of many different Spider-Man stories, but having the character appear in Sony’s latest Spider-Man effort certainly does. increase his popularity tenfold – especially because he looks so cool.
Essentially a punk performance flyer brought to life, Spider-Punk’s uniqueness in “Across the Spider-Verse” is reflected in his constantly changing appearance. While Gwen, Miles, and even Newly introduced Indian Spider-Man all with a consistent appearance, Spider-Punk’s form constantly morphing, not only conveying his relentlessly established oppositional energy but also allowing animators to combine multiple decades of punk culture into a single expression, testing their own skills in the process.
Talking to discuss movies, directors Justin K. Thompson, Joaquim Dos Santos, and Kemp Powers explained their approach to animating Hobie Brown, Thompson explaining that they wanted the character’s animation style to express “a denial traditional norms, authority and ideas” of punk rock. That meant trying a lot of “crazy experiments” that emulated the style of “punk rock magazines and punk rock posters,” which Thompson noted was “cut, glued, painted, glued together.” manually and then xerox.”
But the director’s vision for Spider-Punk went beyond a certain punk cliche, with the trio developing new tools to give Hobie the chaotic energy they were looking for.
