 Webb felt a responsibility to reinvent Spider @-@ Man . One departure from the preceding trilogy was to have Spider @-@ Man build artificial web @-@ shooters , as the character does in the comics . In February 2011 , with the launch of the official website , the title and first official image of Garfield as Spider @-@ Man depicting both his costume and web @-@ shooters for the first time were revealed . Writer Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times was skeptical of the change , feeling that it was too hard to believe that a financially strapped young man could conceive a wrist @-@ worn device that can instantly produce a strand of synthetic webbing and noted " the suit lives up to the challenge of being different from the Sam Raimi films but not too different from the classic suit that stands as one of the great comic @-@ book costumes ever . " Matt Goldberg of Collider admitted that he was not crazy about the costume , explaining that the bug @-@ yellow eyes felt weird to him and the mesh @-@ pattern felt too busy . He explained that the design of the gloves caused flashbacks to the Spider @-@ Man 2099 costume which he did not like , although he felt that the web @-@ shooters looked fine . Webb explained that he felt that " the web @-@ shooters were able to dramatize Peter 's intellect " . Webb paid attention to the question of " How would a kid make it ? " and then took some license with it . About the new costume , Webb explained that he and the crew " wanted a design that would make the body longer and more lithe , more of an acrobat , someone incredibly agile and the legs of the spider [ symbol on the chest ] were something we used to emphasize that . " He revealed that the film used varying suits for different lighting conditions . They made the webbing on the costume a little darker . Webb stated that " With the costume and the web @-@ shooters we wanted to emphasize that these are things that Peter Parker made " . Webb also looked at the Mark Bagley art in Ultimate Spider @-@ Man for the hero 's body . 
