Hi everyone. Please meet Harold, one of the biggest collection of mistakes I've ever made (but made in the process of learning, so they're welcome, LOL). Harold is: Non-Uniform. It's the first skeleton rig I build in Maya, and I did almost everything wrong. I put too much joints on the legs, which resulted in the utter impossibility to pose it using IK and in a real pain in the cephalothorax posing it with FK, not to mention animating it (which was my first intention). The result of this bad skeleton/rigging/binding/posing is under your eyes. Plus, it's the first time I try to use Maya Fur, and the result is some puffy pelouche-pet-thing and not a menacious one like I wanted, LOL. Rational. I tried to use rationality to depict nature: five segments in a tarantula's leg, hence five joints in the Maya representation of it. Sheeesh! Then, I also failed to do my homeworks properly: I realized only at the last minute that tarantulas do have two (or four) eyes, but that they have them in a single eye-sphere exactly in the middle of the head. So, the pelouche feeling increased and, at that point, a pet-name like Harold was inescapable. Plus, just like Maya was mocking me (and probably was, LOL), one of the grass-blades threw a sort of smile shadow on its face and the house was full. Sigh. ;) B-Spider. The only thing I really like in Harold is that, while I was trying to reach a realistic effect, it turned out like one of those big and ridicolous B-movie monsters of the Fifties. It's not by far intentional, so I have nothing to brag about, but hey, I like it. _____ Modeled in NURBS (of course), rendered in Mental Ray with phisical-lens DOF and Fur and a very high AA setting to avoid graininess, it took almost 24 hrs to come out, hence the latin name. Better have a laugh than weep, huh? :) Thanks for your attention and, as always, any suggestion and critic is readily welcomed. I've put all these mistakes in the store in the hope to avoid repeating them next time. Have a wonderful week. Stefano :)