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How Sony Pictures Imageworks Brought the Heroes and Villains of 'Spider-Man' to Life - The Hollywood Reporter

"We mo-capped a gymnast," says animation supervisor Spencer Cook, who worked on the first three Spider-Man movies, of experiments with performance capture for the first film in 2002. "But Spider-Man just looked like a gymnast; it didn't look like Spider-Man. We moved away from that since a lot of Spider-Man shots have larger-than-life action."