Into the Spider-Verse’s legacy in American animation

Puss in Boots, an animated orange tabby in boots and a swashbuckler hat, charges at the camera in a blur of motion lines against a stylized blue-and-purple background in the trailer for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

When Polygon asked Januel Mercado, co-director of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, about animation that inspired the visual look of his DreamWorks movie, he had an easy answer: “Obviously Spider-Verse.” The movie’s evocative oil-painted […]