Creating a Spider Web (Part 1)

20/05/2011

Hi! Finally, here you've got the first part of this practical tutorial :D It can be quite boring, cause it takes a lot of hand work, but well, there you have the method for refining it yourself! In the next parts we'll see how to add water drops, cloth simulation and compositing.

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I hope you like it, and that you aren't aracnophobic xD This is a great chance to see some tips for creating shapes with bèzier curves, that you can use in a variety of things. Also, I'd recommend you to keep it simple if you don't have a quite powerful computer, cause in the upcoming steps, we'll need a lot of computing power (for cloth simulation) and converting the result of this first part into a mesh, can take A LOT of polygons :)

Links to the other parts: Part 2 // Part 3

Enjoy, and see you!!

Level:

Medium

Tags:

tutorial

practical

spider

web

Comments

Permalink Submitted by overkill on Sat, 21/05/2011 - 05:21

Thanks so much for this. It looks to be a heavy model by the end. I hope it's not too crazy :) This is what I have so far (http://db.tt/jTQn9WV) I think I "over stretched" it. I'll try a few more times before the next tut. Can't wait for the next tut!

Permalink Submitted by oliver villar on Sat, 21/05/2011 - 15:35

Hey! That's pretty cool! Maybe you're right and it's a little overstretched, but well, it took a few tries to me to get it right (and even now I'm not completely happy with it haha). Thank you for the idea ;)

See you!

Permalink Submitted by Fran on Sat, 21/05/2011 - 11:57

Spider-Oliver. Pedazo de tutorial y además en español!!! Jolin, así da gusto. Un abrazo.

Permalink Submitted by oliver villar on Sat, 21/05/2011 - 15:36

Jajajj Gracias, Fran! Me alegro de que te guste :)
Nos vemos!

Permalink Submitted by RigsJuarez on Sun, 22/05/2011 - 04:38

Excelentes tus tutoriales.... Gracias y saludos desde Mexico !

Permalink Submitted by oliver villar on Fri, 27/05/2011 - 04:47

Gracias, RigsJuarez, me alegro de que te gusten ;)

Permalink Submitted by Jozadaque on Mon, 23/05/2011 - 22:22

incredible! I had never thought of that! thanks! : D

Permalink Submitted by oliver villar on Fri, 27/05/2011 - 04:48

Permalink Submitted by Vyache on Tue, 24/05/2011 - 02:08

Awesome Tut, the intro music rocks. I think I'm going to make video's for Blender in the future.

Permalink Submitted by oliver villar on Fri, 27/05/2011 - 04:52

Yeah! New music :) I'll love to see your videos!! :D

Permalink Submitted by p2kmgcl on Tue, 24/05/2011 - 22:58

Eres un genio! Empecé hace tiempo a ver los tutoriales desde el principio y puedo decir que con tus vídeos he aprendido lo poco que sé de blender :). También se agradece la traducción, que aunque sepa inglés siempre es más cómodo tu propio idioma. Sigo aprendiendo, enhorabuena por tu trabajo.

Permalink Submitted by oliver villar on Fri, 27/05/2011 - 05:03

Muchísimas gracias por tu comentario :) Me alegro de que te resulten útiles, y que la traducción al español es bienvenida :D
Suerte con Blender y con la programación, que veo que vas haciendo pruebas en tu web! ;)

Permalink Submitted by Angael on Tue, 31/05/2011 - 17:06

Hola de nuevo. Chaval, voy a marchas forzadas, llevo tooodo el fin de semana en el "Oliver Channel" joer, está muy currado todo, asi seguro que se aprende. Sigue así. Un Saludo.

Permalink Submitted by oliver villar on Tue, 31/05/2011 - 18:21

Con comentarios así da gusto jajaj :D Me alegro me alegro. A darle caña!! ;)

Permalink Submitted by William Santacruz on Wed, 08/06/2011 - 21:42

Excelentes tutoriales los que hay en este sitio,, felicitaciones muy bien explicado todo. ojala pueda subir tutoriales de riging y shapes keys gracias!!!!

Permalink Submitted by oliver villar on Thu, 09/06/2011 - 03:35

Gracias, William ;) En efecto, esos videotutoriales llegarán, pero poco a poco :) Pienso cubrir todas las facetas de blender al menos a nivel básico, y esas son varias de las que están por venir en mis tutoriales ;)

Permalink Submitted by vinety on Tue, 28/06/2011 - 16:51

pedazo de tutorial, como todos!! sigue sigue nooooo pares sigue sigue noooo pares!! jaja

un abrazo y animo!

Permalink Submitted by oliver villar on Tue, 28/06/2011 - 22:11

Gracias, Vinety! Me alegro de que te gusten! No pararé jajaj :D

Permalink Submitted by dogcatbeam on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 21:31

Oliver,

Are you using screencast to display your keys?

Permalink Submitted by oliver villar on Tue, 12/07/2011 - 08:20

I use a free software called ShowOff for displaying the keystrokes :)