How Spiders Mate (2D Animation)

This is a small animation I did for my animal behavior class. Rather then doing an 8 page paper I worked for hours on this mini movie about how spiders court with one another. I used illustrator, Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady. This project took me over 20 hours to make. That's excluding the research and Short paper I had to do plus the few hours I wasted trying to make this in Flash. There's a lesson for ya. Stick to what you know when the duedate is around the corner. :)

Basically here's what's happening.
Fly gets caught in web
Dark shadow goes over it and it pulls out a "Help" sign
male spider wraps it in silk
He's having a hard time doing it because the wing keeps sticking out
he goes over to a female's web
he sees the female and relizes that she is HUGE!
He's worried because females tend to eat males sometimes.
So since he's the same size as a daily meal, he lets her know that he's a mate, not dinner by doing a little dance which sends vibrations up a web.
She's happy to get a mate and a free meal.
While she eats her gift
He humps her.
The End. :)

There's no credits because I uploaded it right away because I needed to show it to my class and for some strange reason I couldn't put the project on a disk.

Here's the songs I used in order...
Poor Unfortunate Souls by Jonas Brothers
Jumper by WaterFlame
Accidentally in Love by Counting Crows
Touch It by Raymond & Scum
I Caught Fire (In Your Eyes) by The Used

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 2D
• animation
• adobe
• photo
• image
• spider
• nuptial
• gifts
• mating

[YoDeeJayRo]

o.o but spider femel eta spider male

[Writermist]

@YoDeeJayRo

not always...

sometimes the male lives to **** another day

[my2littlemonsters]

Hahaha that was cute

[Writermist]

@my2littlemonsters

wow... people still see this. :)

[varanoshgaia]

like how you made the spieders' eyes. totally unrealistic but cool :)

[Writermist]

@varanoshgaia

thanks

I like how they bug out LOL

[Snipedn00b101]

CASTLE CRASHERS THEME FTW!

[MikoSacrifice]

Haha this is pretty cool o:

[jade1104you]

pretty good, u need better music though.

[Writermist]

Thanks :)