Director Julio Soto Gúrpide on loving noir and insects
Excitement, art deco style, mysteries, derring-do, and spiders in suits."What's not to love about all of that?" said Julio Soto Gúrpide, director of family-friendly animated detective adventureHis new film stars Ronny Chieng as the voice of Inspector Sun, a hapless and egotistical detective in 1930s Shanghai who happens to be the world's greatest investigator. At least, that's what he thinks.
We actually had a character bible, where each character is related to a spider, their behavior, what they do, their sizes.: I wish I had been a natural biologist, but I ended up making movies. Still, in my heart, I am biologist, so I enjoy doing research for movies like this.: With the character design, it seems like there would be a balancing act between making them too insect-like and too human.
We ended anthropomorphizing the characters, sticking with two eyes and arms and everything, and steering clear of the arachnophobia so many people have.: There was a lot of research on what Shanghai and San Francisco looked like in the Thirties. So if you notice, at the end of the movie, the Golden Gate Bridge hadn't been built yet – it was mid-construction. I think those details are very important for immersing yourself in the 1930s.
The other big set was the sea plane. It was a Pan Am Clipper. They called it the China Clipper, because it always covered the route from America to Asia with a stopover on Midway. It was very idiosyncratic, they only built a few of them, and they discontinued them in the Fifties, but the plane was amazing, with all the cabins built in leather and wood, so in a way we mimicked that.
We're also an independent studios so we don't have the same boundaries and limits as big studios, so we can do pretty much anything we want.was about sea creatures, and the good thing about that movie was that there was no contact. They were always swimming so they only had fins, which what was a bit constraining, but we managed to make them expressive.to eight legs, and lots of contact, because the legs are always in contact with something, a wall or something.
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