This is Background 0. The very first thing I did for GOLDIE.
I was exploring Emily’s vision of a cute, almost children-book-illustration-world.
Here’s where the idea of some color elements overlapping comes from. Like trees, bushes and clouds. I also explored the idea of some objects feeling flat, like paper cutout or tissue paper art.
We later refined things and set down rules for the world, but most of the color scheme and BG layouts come from this first concept.
one of the millions of things i liked about spider-verse was that not only did all the female characters look different from each other, they gave mary jane her classic dimples and square chin, which might not seem like a big deal but you’d be surprised how much tiny details like those can make women in comic books look distinct
also seriously it feels like some animated films are pushing it to have two female characters who look even slightly different so i appreciate that spider-verse made sure every woman in it looked distinct from each other
