My first proper wings model - Arachnid

#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

#21

<< where the leg meats the body, not seeable on this image >>

Dunno if these help - from a couple of slides I took some while ago.

pp

www.geocities.com/paulthepuzzles/spiderpix.html

(Pix won’t stay up for ever, btw )

#22

Grabbed them…Thank Puzzled paul

JA

#23

Thanks to ll for the feedback.

Ive used the image and will now try and d amore realistic version of a tarantula.

Done a couple of legs and heres an unsmoothed screenshot.

Any C&C welcome.

JA

#24

and heres a smoothed version…

#25

OK, finished the leg outline and will try and spend some time on the body later.

Any C&C?

JA

#26

Right,

I’m finished this model to the level of detail I’m going to take it.

Its been a great learning experience and if I get some time will try and render out in C4D.

Heres a view of the underside…

#27

and heres the top…

Any comments and crits very welcome and thanks to Michael for his image and feedback.

#28

looking great?

can you most a bigger version of the finished work…possibly shaded? or atleast with GI?

#29

Sure.

Heres an upper view…

#30

and a lower one…

Thanks for the interest and any C&C on this attempt will be well received (if good or bad).

JA

#31

looking great :smiley:

maybe you should try a Weta [pun intended].

#32

Sorry???:shrug:

Shelob?? Might need to be a bit fatter…But haven’t seen the last film yet.

I hope that the Christopher Tolkien issues are resolved as a Hobbit film in a couple f years would be great. Think what they could do with Smaug…

Thanks for th ecomments.

JA

#33

Weta = not shelob

Weta is a name of an insect in New Zealand.

That’s where the name comes…WETA Digital.

#34

Aaaahh,

I see…sorry…completely took the wrong track there…

JA

#35

Nice work

Some opinions of mine, the first spider looks more robot like (don’t know if that’s what you wanted, but is what I see)

the second one, although not finished, would look a little better with more detail on the top, like the bottom has, even though the picture isn’t all that spectacular for reference.

Anyway, it’s lookin great!:beer: :buttrock: :thumbsup: