Ok well I was quite pleased when I heard I was going to get to build this little guy for the new Wicked Pixels shortfilm that will be released by the end of the year. He’s based on a real spider, but of course I have taken lots of creative license making him nice and cool and techy looking. So here you go, here’s his making of...

BUT, Before I get into it I would just like to say something... Since lately there has been some debate about it. FIRSTLY I would like to say that this Spider was inspired by the amazing works of Neil Blomkamp, I am not sure if he’s still at Rainmaker. But he created his Arachi-droid while working there. You can check it out at www.rainmaker.com in the showcase gallery in the calender. A lot of my creations are inspired by ALL sorts of things, and I apologise if any credit was given to me that was unworthy. I hope you can respect the fact that just to CREATE this guy in 3D is good enough. Oh before I forget I was also inspired by the work of the awesome CG Spider in Wild Wild West. Hope I haven’t missed any.....
I didn’t do too many design sketches for this guy, since I knew he had to look like a real spider I knew what I needed to achieve in an overall direction, in terms of the technical mechanics side I new what I wanted, and I knew there had to be tons of detail.
The MTS.Arach is a Mobile Targeting System, so he doesn’t actually get down and dirty they’re basically there so that Fighter Jets and other units can track where their weapons need to impact, so these little guys get sacrificed basically. They have a little added bonus to them that’s quite cool, but unfortutely you’ll have to wait for the short film to be released to find out what it is. They’re a little bigger than the size of your hand fingers stretched out.