Funnel Web Spider
 

Hi everyone,
I'm a newbie to the Simply Maya forums. I thought I would start posting finished and unfinished work.

Here is a Funnel Web Spider I rendered a while back.

Modeling - Maya/Zbrush
Texturing - Zbrush(polypaint)/Photoshop
Rendering - Mental Ray

http://www.nwjones.com/blog/funnelWe...S_01_smWeb.jpg

http://www.nwjones.com/blog/funnelWe...S_02_smWeb.jpg

http://www.nwjones.com/blog/funnelWe...S_03_smWeb.jpg

Wires
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZmBcbw6bbf...epthWirers.jpg

Those are lovely renders, well done. How did you create the web strands? Or are those photo backplates?

SpiderWeb Silk
 

Hi Stwert..

I did it the easy way - relatively.

I used this tool (http://weavesilk.com), to create textures (with a little bit of Photoshop layering etc):

1. An alpha (cutout opacity), (red image = Phoptoshop alpha)
2. Translucency
3. Spec (added a ridiculous amount of noise)
4. Normal Map - (noisy, overly sharpened image taken into "crazy Bump" for export)

So it is a 3D effect but nothing special. It works though.

Some textures used:
http://www.nwjones.com/blog/NwjSpiderWeb.jpg

Fantastic illustrations

very nice indeed mate

Wow, amazing! Well done :)