This will be my master thread on my work on #SpiderMan2099 #AcrossTheSpiderVerse
These pieces were from my first day on the job. I was asked to do an entirely fresh take on the character, making sure he felt aggressive and bold, a different body build from the other spiders too
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Oscar Isaac wants Pedro Pascal to appear in ‘BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE’.
“He should be a Spider-Person, like a cranky, old Spider-Person.”
(Source: gq-magazine.co.uk/article/oscar-)
its cool to see people are liking this design
2099 was my first assignment and it took me like 15 months to get him right
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Not only did i get to design the suit, but I got to help figure out how to destroy it.
Some explorations on how #SpiderMan2099 ‘s digital suit could disintegrate. Had a lot of fun researching dying or burned out LED screens.
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This is honestly kind of a good time to mention that a lot of my time was spent doing drawing overs, or that designs are just based on tweaking previous models.
But regarding Webslinger, I added a little Pedro Pascal to a Peter model
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What did he look like under the mask..... please, thirsty fans want to know....
#WebSlinger was one of the most fun assignments I had. Spent months exploring all kinds of different cowboys and cowgirls until we settled on something a bit more classic. This is one of the characters I spent a lot of time getting the details right.
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#SpiderUK
The idea was to always give her a hijab, so I took a wide look at different ways to wear it, but especially athletic versions. Swimmers uniforms was a big inspiration for me, but I also needed to consult hijab wearers on correct construction
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#SunSpider was absolutely one of my favorite assignments on the film.
I poured over original designs to include as many design markers as I could, while trying to see if I could plus up the design.
Had to make the wheelchair a mech that could follow her around.
#PeniParker and Sp//dr
Spent a little time on her, pitched an idea for her to have a plug suit, but mostly worked on the new mech. Just tried my hand at adapting the design from the comic by @/ JakeWyatt and no one said no
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My man #MilesMorales
MIles was probably one of the hardest assignments conceptually for me. I struggled greatly finding something new with the costume but also holding on to what worked about the ITSV costume. these were done over the course of 5 months.
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How about some #SpiderCat
A very fun assignment, I based her on one of my friends cats.
I even tried a few version more accurate to the comic character.
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Two for one #SpiderArmorMK3 and an OC #Spiderwoman
It was important that if anyone can wear the mask, we show a range of people and body types being spiders as much as we could.
It was fun pitching character moments for spiders too.
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Some of my #Spiderbyte work
Was really fun to figure out how to show a digital character that didn’t look like Miguel or Lyla.
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So #spidergwen
We knew we didn’t really want to change the formula for her, we wanted a costume that felt different, but the same.
One of my goals was to see if I could get an actual spider logo on her.
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“We have a Prowler”
One of the more fun surprising assignments was getting to lay down some first pass designs for the #DonaldGlover #Prowler
I looked at racing suits and riot gear to try to translate the prowler design into real life
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Got to do the cover for this summers KeyFrame magazine, along with a little interview about the design process on #SpiderMan2099
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Hot off the press! The summer issue of #KeyframeMagazine features articles about the art of character design, how to get a book deal & more. Big thanks to @kristaferanka for this gorgeous cover illustration! Check it out at Keyframemagazine.org. #WePowerAnimation #WeAre839
Spent a little time with #Araña
Exploring making her a body builder and rock climber.
I came back at the end after Mauro Belfiore’s incredible design to land the logo and tattoo on her
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For something a little different, here is Gayatri
One of the last designs I did on the movie, an absolute blast. Had a lot of fun working in little hints to classic Gwen color schemes.
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"realistically all spider-men should be thin cause blah blah blah"
get the fuck outta here with that shit.
you're not defending a fake things honor, you're just being fat phobic.
none of this is realistic. just let people have fun and enjoy shit
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The first of the background spiders I pitched, one of my favorite costume designs period.
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He unfortunately didn’t make into the film, but of my absolute favorite designs I did was for #ManSpider
I pitched a gag that he was the Spider Society cafeteria cook because his arms
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Got to a body everyone liked, did some acting and action explorations, but now the design was sent off to the great Omar Smith to be modeled, where some of the proportions were adjusted. Omar did such an incredible job translating the design
For #SpiderCanada I worked pretty heavily with who had a very clear direction and wanted the suit based on the 1972 Team Canada Summit Series jersey
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Welcome to #Wiles week (production name for #MilesG)
Let’s start near the beginning, before he was Prowler, we knew we always wanted him to be an athletic vigilante, someone who could do spider-man things without the powers; street level and parkour.
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The next pass:
Trying to figure out how far to push his build. The suit shifted back to more of the blue, and trying to make sure a spider is read in his logo.
The Miles sculpt was done by the amazing Omar Smith.
While she didn’t make it into the movie, it was a great time working on #Delilah. It was really important to and I to try to get some SEA representation.
Mauro Belfiore would take the character from here and do a great final design.
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How about a little #Spinneret and #Spiderling today
Mostly kept this pretty 1 to 1 from the comics, but a lot of the heavy designing was done in the draw over stages. Looked at a lot of bicycle padding and helmets for Spiderling.
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We joked that every designer had to take a turn on the #Vulture
Here are some of the first sketches from my time. It’s all a collaborative process, and the only ideas of mine that really stuck were the “notes” that would draw in the air
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ay yo, I got to design a brand new Spider
Felicia Hardy, the Night-Spider.
Some of the Generic Spiders I designed
I ended up designing about 100 original ones, and I tried my best to include as much of a range of l body types I could.
If anyone can wear the mask, we have to do the work to show that it can be anyone
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The #MangaverseSpiderman
Got to push the design a little bit, which was fun.
Included the model draw overs I did because for a lot of the characters, that’s where they really find their final form
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For something a little different, after I got asked to make the spider-sona for I got the really fun assignment to develop the design into a full character
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Just like Krypton, we are going to start at the end.
I was brought on early onto #MyAdventuresWithSuperman to tackle a wide range of designs, less so much concerned with show style, but more just concepts.
This was my final pass at Superman’s new suit. Something classic but new.
Here’s a look at the new original piece I made for the official #AcrossTheSpiderVerse show at
This piece will be available for purchase
May or may not be making a new piece for this show
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@SonyAnimation , we are proud to present the official art exhibition for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse! Join us on 8/5 to see the artwork that went into the film, and new tribute artwork!
l8r.it/zIseNow one that is hard to find in the film
The unused Raimi film concept art by Alex Ross, inspired by a design by David Williams, Spider-Man
A top 3 spider-man costume design for me
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Let’s start a new thread
We’ve finally arrived at turning Wiles into the #Prowler
We wanted to keep the same vibe as the previous designs, the home made style with engineering help from Aaron, but also find fresh takes on the costume
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Hey.
#UncleAaron
Got to bring him back for Earth 42, this pass wasn’t successful, he came off too nice.
(There was never a scene where miles would be in costume, it’s just for drama)
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Disney may have forgotten about him, but I haven’t.
New print for flamecon, available online afterwards.
Some more of my second batch of Generics (the name of the system of background characters)
These are more in depth designs cause I had a better idea of what production needed this time.
For inspiration, some of these are based on friends.
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Some more of them.
I ended up doing about 100 total on the movie, and a lot were given alternate colors or render scripts to double the number
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The #BombasticBagman
Had to try a few different versions ranging from accurate to the comic to some more original versions, but was still a very fun style exploration.
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After a few months with 2099 in modeling and character paint, I was given him back with the assignment to implement more Mezzo American cultural landmarks into the suit. the trick was to add pattern work that wouldn't break the overall color silhouette
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Do you have any concept art for this little guy 
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Working on top of the paint job by Jake Panian, I spent months looking at ancient art and current textiles to draw inspiration from and see how far we could take the design without it being too busy. Making sure the logo read as an 8-legged spider was a priority too
Study people. How they dress, how they walk, how age affects them, whatever. All great designs draw on specificity, and that’s a language you learn by observing real people.
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I've been wanting to ask, as an aspiring character designer, what was some of the things that you think are essential to learn and that kicked you off to create better designs (ie. learning to draw cloth, etc.) I've been studying anatomy, but i don't feel that's all there is toit
Also I want to give a shout out, that while she didn’t know what it was for, big ups to for taking the time to help explain hijab construction and styling to me
It’s always important that when you don’t have the knowledge to ask someone who does so it can feel real
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#SpiderUK
The idea was to always give her a hijab, so I took a wide look at different ways to wear it, but especially athletic versions. Swimmers uniforms was a big inspiration for me, but I also needed to consult hijab wearers on correct construction
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The #Rhino!
After quite a few adaptations of him being mechanical, I really pushed for something more classic and just a guy stuck in a suit. The fun was to find ways to make it seem like he was in it for a long time
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we are gonna take a little spider break next week so I can post some of my #MyAdventuresWithSuperman designs
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i will be posting about every spider in due time haha.
i did like 150 of them, its gonna take me a while
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hi, kris, what abou our queen lady may our lady spider?? 
Since the ATSV art book is being released today, I will start posting some of the designs for characters from later in the movies/easter eggs later this week.
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There had been some previous work on him done by other designers, especially around his face and attitude, but I was mainly tasked with his suit, built, and intimidation
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I’ll let you know, we toned that ass down
Genuine question
How much time is appropriate until I start posting some of the designs from the end of ATSV to avoid it being too much of a spoiler
I was planning on waiting until a month after release
Damn, we finally here
Hope you all enjoy #AcrossTheSpiderVerse
I spent the last 3 years on this movie and crazy it's real and actually out
here is a sketch I did a few years ago for fun
One last batch of Background Spiders.
We didn’t end up having the time to make up, but I thought it’d be funny if we leaned into the gym sequence and make a few gym bros
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Some #GreenGoblin
We wanted some otherworldly goblins for a few sequences, I think you can spot the Mignola-World puppet goblin a few times waiting for the Go Hoke Machine
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Here’s a look at the new original piece I made for the official #AcrossTheSpiderVerse show at @gallerynucleus
This piece will be available for purchase
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And here we land #UncleAaron
Brought a little edge back to him. We wanted to reflect the same colors as the 1610 versions, but a little more heightened, fashion-wise.
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A few more pieces showing some detail breakdowns.
Dayn’s very original concept for the character had collapsible crutches so I really wanted to bring that back.
On to the big daddy #JorEl
Once again, based on brilliant previs armor designs by
Honestly I don’t want to say too much but intense daddy was what I was going for
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Can someone link me that Pastel Spider sona that fan made? I want to show it some love
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With #Widow the details were really important. I spent a ton of time doing research, and asking several friends who had been riding for their whole lives so i could understand everything I could about saddle construction. A lot of of job is highlighting details so it translates.
♥️ Gambit X Rogue 💚
my final new print, debuting at NYCC
available online afterwards
WAKANDA FOREVER ✊🏿
New print that'll be debuting at my table at C2E2, and then in my online store afterwards.
I painted this!
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Happy anniversary to Into the Spider-Verse. We can't wait for you to see Across the Spider-Verse, exclusively in movie theaters June 2, 2023.
(Art by: Across the #SpiderVerse Character Designer @kristaferanka)
Hi I’m Kris and I’d love to do some new design, cover, and illustrator work
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Kristafer.anka@gmail.com
krisanka.artstation.com
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Working off some previs suit and tech designs by I got to try some passes at the final design for her. Thankfully, everyone really vibes on the butch mullet look.
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