Daily puzzle #16

The answer: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Movie · 2018 · Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman

Sony's animators invented new techniques to make every frame look like a printed comic, from halftone dots to off-register colour, and the style changed what studios thought big animated films could look like. The story about a kid growing into a role everyone already has expectations for is just as strong. Across the Spider-Verse continues it.

The six clues

1. An animated film released in 2018.
2. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and mixes comic-book printing styles with 3D animation.
3. A Brooklyn teenager is bitten by something strange during a night out painting graffiti.
4. Versions of the same hero from other dimensions, including a cartoon pig and a black-and-white detective, crash into his world.
5. The villain Kingpin builds a particle collider to reach versions of his dead wife and son.
6. Miles Morales learns the job from an older, tired Peter B. Parker and from Gwen Stacy.

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