Look Development: Funnel Web Spider

Modeling     - Zbrush/Maya

Textureing    - Zbrush/Photoshop

Rendering     - Mental Ray

Compositing - After effects

Funnel Web Spider - WIP

Funnel Web Spider - WIP

Here are a few test render with a blend of materials in Vray for Maya with displacement, normal maps, specular maps blended with subsurface material.

Eric Keller's Insect DVD has been a great help.

Funnel Web Spider - WIP

Funnel Web Spider - WIP

Render test in Vray for Maya - nowhere near finished - hair and shader correction to do. I recently went to the Australian museum and got a few cool pics of dead Funnel webs. I might remodel this one and make a few different varieties - good rigging test to do as well.