My first proper wings model - Arachnid

#1

Hi,

Iv.e been playing with wings for a while now (see my earlier thread “Alloy”) and here is my first propoer model. It is based on screenshots which were linked in the cinema4d forum and it has taken me about 2 hours to get it to this rough stage.

The legs are splayed and have still to be attahced but you get the idea of where I am going.

I have attcahed some smoothed and unsmoothed screenshots and would welcom any comments.

Thanks

JA

#2

an unsmoothed shot

#3

a shot of the body

#4

unsmoothed legs

#5

SMOOTHED STRETCH

#6

last one…smoothed body. I know that the legs dont quite touch but this is just a preliminary with it all pulled roughly into shape. I don’t really like the back as it feels a little manufactured…

JA

#7

one more of the head…

#8

lookin good

#9

thanks:)

#10

Looks good, but absolutly not anatomical correct…I might be a bit over sensitive since I am studing biology and we just had spiders in class but I suggest you do more research if you want it to be correct. I can’t really describe all the errors, just search the internet for some scientific information on spiders.

#11

Thanks for the feedback. If you can suggest any websites then please do so and I can take a look.

Cheers

JA

#12

1st of all, the model is missing pedipalps (2 short “legs” between leg 1 and the chelicerae (fangs, probably miss-spelled)
The legs of arachnids also have 7 segments.

There are tons of images of spiders on the internet, some of them taken by me :smiley:

Michael

#13

Thanks michael, I will do a little more research. I want to finsish this off and perhaps retry a more anatomically correct version.

Cheers JA

#14

keep up the good work man its not a bad model … just keep modeling and you’ll get better

#15

Thanks for the feedback. This was only a stylised model completed in lunchbreaks however I’ve render it out in C4D with a little background. Wouldn’t want to stand on it!!!

Cheers

JA

#16

Let me search thru my harddrives for som reference images. I used to be an hobby arachlologist, and found some old description drawing, in some of the university’s annals, which also contained Ingrams story/findings of Machu Pichu, interesting to read in a book thats 100+ years old.
Ill let you know if i find the “blueprint”

Michael

#17

Found one image from that book on a friends page.

Not a common spider, but a Mygalomorph, or tarantula/birdeating spider/Earthtiger or whatever local name that are used.

If you are a beginner, a more bulkier spider would be easier to model.

Edit: bout the 7 segments, some say that there are 6, but other count for the first part where the leg meats the body, not seeable on this image.

Michael

#18

Thanks for that:thumbsup:

If you can post a side and front view of the same then I can try and redo it a bit better.

Thanks for any help.

JA

#19

Um when i thought of it there were only that drawing, and some of the legs themselves.
But if you do a search on google on Poecilotheria you will find images of the spider, I dont remember which species this one is, but theyre pretty much the same, with some color variations. side and front views are not used much in taxanomy.
I did photgraph a few of them once, but did not take the time to take front and side view, theyre fast and nasty, running on vertical glass.
And i did look thru my taxanomy books, but couldnt find any.

Michael

#20

Thanks for your help michael.

I will have a look on the web using the term you suggested.

Best regards

John