Group20
(Aaron Eakin & Joe Lampitt)

Our model is a spider. It has eight individually controllable legs as well as a controllable head and fangs. You can orient it so that it is standing on all eight legs, as in the picture, or you can stand it up on two legs, so that the other six legs act more like arms. This allows our character to have more story telling possibilities than if it had to walk on all eight legs. The spider also has three distinct moods: happy, sad, and mad. When he is happy, his fangs go away, he raises his head, and he waves; when sad, his fangs go away, he drops and shakes his head, and starts crying; and when mad, his fangs get larger, and he begins moving his front most legs and fangs, as if trying to eat you. Other features of the model include the ability to orient the camera anywhere around the spider, the ability to move and change the color of the first light source, the ability to turn on a second, animated light source, the ability to change leg and fang length, and the ability to change the level of detail of the spider.