Teen Preston Mutanga animated a scene for the Oscar-nominated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse when he was just 14.
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Preston said the process has been surreal, but is just the beginning of what he hopes to do as an animator. His father uses an animation software called Blender for work. His YouTube channel LegoMe_TheOG has 413,000 subscribers, but in the beginning, Preston was just happy to get tens or hundreds of views.
The trailer ended up gaining millions of views and eventually caught the eye of actual Sony producers working on the movie. A screenshot from the scene Preston animated for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. And of course, Preston got paid, though he said he didn’t care too much about the money.PROFILE — This 12-year-old is a cartoon voice actor Movie is up for an Academy Award
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