Anyone particularly well-versed in how a bug walks?
It’s easy enough with only two legs, even four…
but six? 
If someone could point me to a good reference
it’d be muchly appreciated. Thankies. :eyebrowlift:
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The best reference you can have (and you’re gona think I’m not helping) is to film a spider walking or get a video from the web (youtube could do). Play it slow motion and try to mimic the movement through bones. Hope that helped.
I would think they would walk with opposites, so if right legs 1 and 3 are stepping forward, left leg 2 would also be stepping forward. I may be wrong, but that would make sense to me. Or for a spider which has 8 legs (arachnids have 8, insects have 6), when right 1 and 3 step forward, left 2 and 4 would also be stepping forward.
Check this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE2QPYKju04
It appears left legs are always opposite to right legs…
Had to look it up… :evilgrin:
Randy
Hope this helps http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_on_animal_movement.html
Its a presentation on a 6 legged walking robot so its it might be a bit wordy for your purposes but it does have a good explanation on how roaches walk and it has some video of it.
edit: I found another better one by the same guy. http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_on_engineering_and_evolution.html
Check MCHammonds awesome ant-rig:
http://vimeo.com/14277344
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1692454
Thanks for all the links, people.
I greatly appreciate it.
And btw, living in south louisiana near the gulf coast
I have ample opportunity to observe VERY large spiders
and insects… (we have to make sure they don’t carry off the
pets!) :evilgrin:
As the wiki states… it can be quite complex.
I’ll post the results of my efforts, i hope.
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