We are doing the personal lip sync project as a group and our topic is ‘My Biggest Fear’! We are all animating this individually as we will be assessed that way. We are also doing our own pieces, although I wouldn’t mind animating someone else’s as a challenge! 😀
So for this, I thought I would pick one of my biggest fears which is arachnophobia! I’m extremely afraid of these weird eight legged creatures, even the very small ones 🙁 I honestly do not know how I developed such a fear of spiders because I don’t know/remember if I was this afraid when I was a kid, but I sure know I am now!
Although I am scared of them, I do research them from time to time, to make sure I know which species I encounter and to also make sure I know all the poisonous ones so I can stay as far away as humanly possible!! When I first got to London, I had this massive spider in my room that I was too afraid to hoover so I had my friend catch it for me haha. After that I immediately looked up all the species found in London just so I could be aware of any that came my way XD!!
I was thinking up ideas and colour schemes related to spiders so I found this interesting article about a new blue spider species (still terrifying to me haha)
I was going to put a picture of the blue spider up here, but I thought it might be triggering for anyone who doesn’t like to see pictures of spiders either.
I’ve been trying to think of ways to animate this and how I want to go about it; I know I’m definitely doing 2D, but I’m not sure if I want it funny/scary. There are a couple of nightmare stories I have experienced myself and one of them was walking into my house, with spiders at every nook and cranny on the floor! They were literally beside anything and everything on the floor and I had to tiptoe to my bedroom (also filled with spiders) and I don’t think I could sleep that night! Another incident took place when my family and I visited this park in Goa, where I randomly noticed a garden spider (huge, with black and yellow stripes) that had spun a huge web literally between two giant trees. The minute I spotted the first one, I moved away only to realise in dismay that nearly every tree had one. It was horrifying and I kept ducking with my hands over my head as I walked through that park.
I also had to unfortunately live at one of my relatives place once, where the bathroom in the room that I stayed in with my parents was full (and I mean it was “FULL” of webs and spiders everywhere) of harmless yet scary long leg spiders (I call them long legs but they’re not as big as the daddy long legs found in the UK). It was my worst nightmare to have to stand in that bathroom every day.. to even go there to brush my teeth or wash my face was frightening!
I’m now starting to think if it was a good idea to pick this one, cause even thinking about this is giving me the jitters! I literally spent like an hour searching my room to make sure there aren’t any!! Anyways, that’s enough of my spider stories, I am looking forward to animating this!