SignShot2

Righty got the back legs working on there now, took a heck of alot longer than i thought i would cause he takes such big strides with his front legs it was challenging to get the back ones working without making it look like he was prancing. I hear what you say about the camera Dan i will try it but for some reason my brain isnt working right now and i cant seems to think of how to do it. And ive tried to add a reach around the corner of the lampost with his from right leg to make it look less mechanical, this i sthe only thing i can think to do without going over and redoing the first 2 secs of animation, which im really not prepared to do right now seeing as i just spent the last 11 hours working on the fecking thing.

Sign shot.

Could really use some feedback on this shot please. Only the body and the front legs are done im just about to make a start on the back legs.

3rd Scene

My third scene, out of all the scenes ive done this probably differs from the animatic the most. This is because i really wanted to play with the animation in this scene and see how much character i could get out of the spider.

This was also probably the hardest shot to animate, its actually two different spiders. Impatient to get on with the animating i started about half way through startin from with when hes lying on the ground. After several failed attempts i decided it would be a heck of alot easier to give him IK handles in his lower legs so that it was easier to get his feet to stay on the ground. So i got that all animated and was happy with it, so i went back to animate the walk and fall but the IK kept mucking up the rig and animation. After spending most of sunday trying to get the thing working i decided that it would be easier to just import a spider with FK handles then have them switch halfway through, so thats what i did. Soon as FK hits the ground IK jumps in and takes his place.

Looking back at this i'm still not satisfed with the fall. And i my have to change the camera, i think the angle makes the approach look a bit funny but i'll see what the others say before i change anything.

2nd scene

Right got the second scene done unless anyone has any objections with it (choose your words very carefully) The entry scene for the spider out from under the car.

This is the first playblast i did. I showed it to Sarah and she thought i should centralize the spider a bit more and add more angle, so i created a new camera and tried from a different angle.

1st scene

Right ive got my first secen pretty much animated... How can simething be "pretty much" animated i hear you ask. Well there more i could do to it but i dunno whether it'll be worth my while, so i thought i shove up playblast and see what people say.