I've decided to do an animation where thousands of spiders swarm over a hill. So here's my second attempt at the spider model. C&C would be fantastic.
the front leg is roughly the same size (spiders front and rear legs are slightly shorter than the main ones in the middle) I've stupidly put them at bad angles for rigging 
but I am playing with some IK setups right now to see how it looks
even if so - i suggest you dont do all of them low detail. i mean, yes for the great mass of spiders you should use the less detailed spiders. but for the real wow effect you could create maybe 15 spiders that are high detailed and a little bit differant each, look about like the low detail version. and with the high detail spiders you can create some real shocking close up with the cam below them, looking up and they ran over the cam. it might be even worth changing the camera position every half second. so that you have 5 or 6 cams watching - and they cycle through. that way the eye will not have time to see that all the spiders are the same. going from seeing all of them to just a few closer up, then all of them and a few again - with the right matching music (e.g. faster and louder at close up and silent and slow when seeing all) might add a blood freezing effect.Originally posted by Pure_Morning
It doesnt have to be detailed cause you will never really see the models that close up and the wow factor of the piece will be the sheer multitude of them.
I just watched 8 legged freaks and now I'm really inspired! I'm gonna start the model again and get the legs attached to the body properly (i botched it together before).
