Creating a Spider – part 02

by David Ward

In this second part of our Spider tutorial for Blender 2.5, I go in set up a better render environment, add some Particle Hair and adjust the settings to give us a nice fuzzy-looking appearance to our tarantula spider. Going on, we create a simple rig, using IK constraints for the legs, and Auto-Ik for the mandibles. Then we put the little guy in some cool poses and test out some renders of him.

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37 Responses to “Creating a Spider – part 02”
  1. Islam
    Posts: 12

    Nice! To be continued?

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     Oct 3, 2011 at 7:04 am
    • Günter Werner Hans
      Posts: 1

      Nice

      But a quck tip:
      select amature
      go to editmode
      amature > AutoName Left/Right

      that save many time, if you have very much bones ;-D

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       Oct 3, 2011 at 10:21 am
    • MArc
      Posts: 1

      Hello, sorry for my english.
      Thank you for tuto,very fun.
      But my spider are a problem of deform when I move.
      you corrige me please?
      Thank you.
      link spider: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BQE43XVR

      Return after thank you
      Sorry for my english

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       Dec 20, 2011 at 2:41 am
  2. CGuitar
    Posts: 1

    Will you keep making these? And will you animate the spider eventually?

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     Oct 3, 2011 at 8:35 am
  3. Jorge Diaz-Ramirez
    Posts: 7

    Very nice Work.

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     Oct 3, 2011 at 9:29 am
  4. alwadhani
    Posts: 14

    very cool and scary spider, loved it thanx alot

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     Oct 3, 2011 at 9:37 am
  5. Nick Kleine-Tebbe
    Posts: 22

    this looks very great but on the legs of my spider is in some parts almost no hair…

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     Oct 3, 2011 at 9:53 am
    • Thomas Mittermair
      Posts: 21

      Thanks a lot for this tutorial. My result looks awesome and scary, thanks to you.
      I have the same problem. My spider looks great. There are just some part without hair… someone knows why?

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       Oct 3, 2011 at 3:12 pm
      • bestyaneagra
        Posts: 24

        same problem at me

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         Jul 12, 2012 at 2:19 pm
      • Jorge Losilla
        Posts: 3

        I have the same problem also. I´m blocked at this point..

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         Aug 19, 2012 at 3:32 pm
  6. Tosky
    Posts: 1

    Nice ! I bookmarked that vid, Thank so much !

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    Maybe that’s not the right place for requesting tutorials, BTW: I search for video-tutorials on how-to-make seashells (of various shapes) in a clean and fashionable way. Low-Poly if possible.

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     Oct 3, 2011 at 2:55 pm
  7. greg
    Posts: 115

    Great tutorial, love it, very useful tips and not too complicated!

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     Oct 4, 2011 at 3:27 am
  8. Piotr Rozenberg
    Posts: 1

    HI, very good tutorial. Could you help me plese. I can’t rotate and trackball the bones of armature.I can’t rotate the mesh.

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     Oct 4, 2011 at 4:59 am
  9. Henrik Jorgensen
    Posts: 13

    Nice one, thanks.
    :)

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     Oct 4, 2011 at 7:07 am
  10. Ben Morgan
    Posts: 22

    lol im gonna do some vfx with my spider when i make it and recreate the scene of Sam stabbing Shelob xD

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     Oct 4, 2011 at 9:11 am
  11. Blutarsky H
    Posts: 7

    Some very good tips in these tuts David. thanks a lot.

    i would separate the particle-system in one for the legs and one for the body. faces on the body are bigger in proportion. means they will get less hair then the legs. splitting in 2 smaller systems gives you the possibility to tweak more and get rid of the bold spots.

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     Oct 6, 2011 at 6:21 am
  12. Gary Parkin
    Posts: 109

    Every time I watch one of these tutorials, I learn something I hadn’t planned on. I don’t get to play with hair much, building buildings, but it looks really cool.
    And I’m sorry to say I never knew you could comb the hair. LOL. That is too cool.

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     Oct 7, 2011 at 7:31 am
  13. S J Bennett
    Posts: 5

    gahh.. i can’t keep going with this, spiders creep me out too much :D

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     Oct 9, 2011 at 2:14 am
  15. algo
    Posts: 6

    when I move the spider’s leg, the leg moves, and by staying there.

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     Nov 29, 2011 at 7:57 pm
  16. Durgesh B.
    Posts: 1

    Nice 1. But the commands you used like “tweak” commands.. What are their shortcut keys??? I found only one i.e. “Period” i.e. “. key” on numpad… & also the part wherein you scale all the left hand side bones on duplicate them on right hand side dint work.. I had to grab & move them after scaling them on the x axis -1 times…

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     Dec 7, 2011 at 11:54 pm
  17. Billy Galanos
    Posts: 1

    Wow the spider in the cage is amazing..Congrats

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     Dec 16, 2011 at 9:59 am
  18. Scottman95
    Posts: 2

    Help, When I make the LegE copy the rotation of the IKLeg, the LegE turns around and I do Know how to fix it. Please Help Me

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     Dec 21, 2011 at 12:45 pm
  19. Andreas Bjorkman
    Posts: 19

    Help!
    CTRL+SHITF+C doesn’t do anything! Any workaround?
    Same with SHITF+I

    I am using blender 2.6

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     Dec 30, 2011 at 6:41 am
  20. Mike Bennewitz
    Posts: 3

    that key command often fails for me. To center the cursor, right? I always end up going into the , uh properties panel, the one at the left of the 3D window when you hit N. In there you can Zero out the cursor.

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     Jan 5, 2012 at 12:02 pm
    • Chris Carr
      Posts: 3

      Aggggggghhhhhhhh! Thank you Sonofwitz! I looked and looked for how to do that for almost an hour and it was driving me crazy. I am so not used to Blender v2.6. If you hadn’t have said that I would have never found it. Again, thanks. I kept wondering why my origin looked different from David’s. It wound up in the front center of the spider instead of the thorax (or whatever the center-back portion is). I wasn’t able to move it like I knew how to do in the older versions of blender.

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       Feb 11, 2012 at 10:01 am
  21. Ron Boygott
    Posts: 105

    Thanks David, I always wondered why my particles never followed the animation, your a life saver. This was the first time I came across the reason and I watched most of your tutorials on youtube, Thanks again for the tip. Now I can animate my hairy creatures.

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     Mar 21, 2012 at 5:11 am
  22. Robert Schubert
    Posts: 16

    I’m using version 2.64. I set the Bias to .050 and the Size to 4000. When I render, my spider gets moved to the edge of the plane it’s sitting on, hiding most of the spider’s shadow. How can I get the same positioning of the spider as I get when I use Ray Shadow? The Buffer Shadow gives better detail of the particle hairs if I can get it to work right. I’ve included two screen shots below to help explain what I mean.

    Using Ray Shadow
    [URL=http://s1130.photobucket.com/albums/m539/Blanco111/Works%20in%20Progress/help1-15.jpg][IMG]http://i1130.photobucket.com/albums/m539/Blanco111/Works%20in%20Progress/th_help1-15.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

    When I change to Buffer Shadow
    [URL=http://s1130.photobucket.com/albums/m539/Blanco111/Works%20in%20Progress/help2-12.jpg][IMG]http://i1130.photobucket.com/albums/m539/Blanco111/Works%20in%20Progress/th_help2-12.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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     Oct 15, 2012 at 7:08 pm
    • Blanco111
      Posts: 16

      Please ignore the above post. I forgot to check “Shadow Only”. How dumb is that?

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       Oct 16, 2012 at 3:39 pm
  23. Lewis Sellari
    Posts: 1

    I can’t rotate the butt of the spider in pose mode or object mode, only in edit mode. How do I solve this problem

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     Feb 8, 2013 at 10:03 pm
  24. deanna
    Posts: 5

    I’m at 32:54 on video 02 where the rig is complete. It seems like my rig is set up pretty well except my spider’s feet don’t stay planted, everything moves with the head. If I move just the IK bone at the foot, it works correctly. I’m new to all this so I’m sure I just missed something somewhere. Any suggestions?

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     Apr 29, 2013 at 6:39 pm
    • deanna
      Posts: 5

      Just realized the fur doesn’t move when I pose the spider. :( Looks like I need to go through the tutorial again.

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       Apr 29, 2013 at 7:07 pm
      • Jonathan Williamson
        Posts: 2971

        You can fix this by placing the Armature modifier below the Particles modifier.

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         Apr 29, 2013 at 7:34 pm
    • deanna
      Posts: 5

      I went back to position 24:30 in video 02 and redid the connection for all of the IK bones to head and platform. Not sure how I missed that before but now the rig works properly! I just finished rendering my completed animation. What fun! Thanks for a great tutorial!

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       May 1, 2013 at 3:38 pm
  25. deanna
    Posts: 5

    I moved the position of the modifier and that worked! Thanks!

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     Apr 29, 2013 at 10:48 pm

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