Wendell Dalit is an LA - based art director.
Wendell is a visual development artist who has worked on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and K-Pop Demon Hunters, as well as many other blockbuster animation films.
When he talked about Spider-Verse, what stood out to me was how intentional everything was. The look wasn’t about randomly mixing 2D and 3D. It came from a deep understanding of comics, printing techniques, and animation, then translating all of that into a unified visual language. What made it powerful wasn’t just that it looked new, but that it was consistent.
K-Pop Demon Hunters showed a different aesthetic from Spider-Verse, but the mindset is similar. He showed how early visual development decisions directly affect layout, lighting, and final shots. He admitted that before working on the project, he didn’t actually listen to K-pop at all. He leaned fully into research and studied music videos and performance footage until he understood the language of it.