Another similarity to the Netflix series? Sony’s Oscar-winning Into the Spider-Verse played

 Another similarity to the Netflix series? Sony’s Oscar-winning Into the Spider-Verse played 

into the Disney Channel and Disney+ series visual style, with Loter noting that it wasn’t just a “huge inspiration for us” but “changed the game for all animation moving forward.”

Lunella/Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur in ‘Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.’ Courtesy of Disney Channel

“We wanted to create something that was that visually impactful, but we didn’t want to copy it. So we went in the other direction where we did stuff that looked more hand drawn. And in an effort to keep a sci-fi look, we adapted some things — like the Jack Kirby crackle that you would see in comic books — into a digitized version,” he tells THR. “It was the application of this retro stuff you’re familiar with, but pulling it into something that felt more technologically forward while keeping a comic book sensibility.”

As two creatives who grew up in ’90s New York City around the same time, the duo wanted an art style for its backgrounds and characters that celebrated that era “right before gentrification happened in New York where the city still felt very creative,” according to Loter. While the character design leaned into a modern look for its Black and brown New York Lower East Side residents, the team — like My Dad the Bounty Hunter — were careful to be specific, both in terms of character and environment design.