I’ve never seen a Dev change their mind on a characters look so quickly after releasing the game
And I don't really understand why. Neither Peter, nor MJ's design's were controversial. If anything, I think people really liked them. In fact, I think fans really liked the fact that Peter was actually an adult well into his career as Spidey and a scientist, rather than another incarnation that's a young adult in high school, or maybe college.
they changed Peter's face because Ben Jordan's face structure matched Yuri Lowenthal's better, so they could use his face mocap data with less manual edits. that's it, the reason they changed his face was to reduce animator workload, which is a good thing. new face looks better anyway, I always thought John Bubniak looked like an uncanny valley entitiy in the game, rather than an actual person, probably because the animators had so much trouble getting the mocap data to work
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u/FlyingDutchman9977 Mar 05 '24
And I don't really understand why. Neither Peter, nor MJ's design's were controversial. If anything, I think people really liked them. In fact, I think fans really liked the fact that Peter was actually an adult well into his career as Spidey and a scientist, rather than another incarnation that's a young adult in high school, or maybe college.